Ils sont foux les français

They are simply crazy the French strikers: while in the rest of Europe governments are pushing the retirement age to 67, they do not want to accept that they will have to work until age 62 before receiving a government pension. With life expectancy rising in France like everywhere else in Europe the actual system will quickly become unsustainable: the pension age has to rise or pensions have to be cut drastically - or the children of today's strikers will have to bear the burden of their parents' blindness.
This blog's writer was affected personally by last week's general strike in France as his parents had to stay two days longer on a holiday to the Catalan countryside as their flight was cancelled due to the air traffic controllers's strike...