Macron Shifts Blame for Yellow Vest Protests and 'Economic Emergency' to Predecessors, Tries to Be a Hero with More Tax Cuts and Raising Minimum Wage

After 4 weeks of protests, Macron has decided to listen, partly. At least enough to try to shut the protest up. The greedy narcissistic politicians don't seem to listen without some physical demonstration that show people have had enough and aren't going to take anymore of the crock of shit these politicians shovel at them.

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Yet, Macron tried to justify himself and denounce the protests and anger of the French people who decided an increased fuel tax was too much. Macron said the public has a "right to indignation", but:

"There is no justification to the anger and all those violent clashes."

Would the douche bag two-faced prick have listened otherwise? No. Not a chance. This is what happened in the American Revolution too. Taxes started it all. The British empire and their vassal lords and governors wouldn't listen to the people of the colony who were being taxed too much. And so, they rebelled and revolted against the oppression and tyranny of the authoritarians who demanded to keep taking more and more. Increasing taxes is a good way to rob people, and light a fire under their ass. At least in some places.

People are right to call him a "President for the Rich", which is what French MP and the left-wing ‘Unbowed France’ Party leader Jean-Luc Melenchon calls him.

In order to spin things and appear like a good guy who "listens to the people", he declared a state of economic emergency that he would help by raising the minimum wage "by €100 ($113) per month" starting in May 2019. Mind you, he's such a good listener after a month of protests that eventually got more violent. He wasn't listening to the people before that though.

Another measure to make himself into a hero of the people is a pledge to cut taxes on overtime labor, and a special tax exemption for those who earn less than €2,000 ($2,270) per month. He said:

"We will respond to the economic and social urgency with strong measures, by cutting taxes more rapidly, by keeping our spending under control, but not with U-turns."

In his speech today (see below), he blames the current economic emergency on the past 40 years of deteriorating living standards and widening income gap that his predecessors created. Not him. He's Mr. Innocent in all this. Apparently, his tax increase was reasonable, it's only because of the past 40 years of shit that people saw the tax increase as the final straw that broke their tacit acceptance of being screwed over.

Laughably (to me), he ends his speech with:

"What I'm doing, and what I'm fighting for, is for you. This is the fight for France. Vive la France."

My partner is from France. She follows the news there, even before this Yellow Vest protest event. Macron was voted on because he "looks good". Serious, apparently that's why many people voted for him. He was a "center" candidate, but turned out to favor the rich and helped to gut the public sector and social programs in favor of more privatization and increased costs. Institutions that were built from public funds, through taxes, were being handed over to private companies. for profit maximization. No one was given money back for the private sector gaining control of what the public paid for.

He is ruining France apparently (as my partner says), not fighting for it, or doing what he's doing for the people. It's a big con game from a typical two-faced lying politician. His new measure that are simply an attempt to appease people who are fighting back against increased taxes, is to cut them in other places which won't do much to help the economy anyways. Although, it does seem to help the poorer, rather than more measures that help the richest. Maybe it will be enough smoke blown up people's asses for him to get them to stop the protests.

Some people on Twitter praise Macron for "courage" and "brave" decisions. They must be clueless idiots who just swallow up any shit being shoveled their way by their idolized puppet politicians, lest they realize the sham they live in. Other's recognize the state's control over public funds, and want to reverse that with more public control over how the government is spending taxes.

The Yellow Vest movement has accomplished something though. They got a politician to listen, in part, and stopped the tax hike that they initially were protesting against. One person said on Twitter that "In six weeks, the Yellow Vests got what the trade unions did not get in 30 years." That's pretty good, 6 weeks vs. 30 years. All it took was for people to get pissed off enough to make enough noise, disrupt the normalcy of a docile society and be heard.

I wonder though, if this will be the dying of the movement now that Macron has conceded his tax hike. Maybe taking away the final straw will just bring people back to accepting what was before. Or will they keep pushing for more to change? I guess we'll find out shortly.

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References:

• Macron announces state of ‘economic emergency’ in France, promises small salary increases (VIDEO)

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