Going international, by Pedro Nueno

What is happening in Paris? The State wants to raise the retirement age somewhat, but many French people do not accept it, they want to retire as soon as possible, at 62 years of age. How is it possible that Macron has not been able to explain to them that if they retire at 62, as life expectancy goes up and then live to be 102, how can they expect to collect pensions for 40 years? Where is the money kept to pay those pensions? Governments are charging us taxes to be able to pay us pensions in the future, but, instead of saving that money, they spend it mainly on having hundreds of thousands of civil servants who need offices, computers and computer experts, travel to meetings by the world and some even get a car, a driver and many other things. However, when you ask yourself what important things has this high-level politician done?, you often have a hard time finding something.

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