CAN PROTESTING FRENCH WORKERS TEACH AMERICANS HOW TO SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Interview: Cole Stangler, French-American journalist based in Marseille, France covering labor & politics and correspondent for the international news network France 24. French workers are resisting Macron’s push to raise the pension age. What can Americans learn from French protestors to help save Social Security and other safety nets here at home? Senators Sanders and Warren plan would tax the rich to increase Social Security by $2,400 a year. New Kentucky law says abortion is murder - does that mean women may soon die by lethal injection? America has a system of laws. Plus, Jared Kushner's cozy ties with the Saudis. Geeky Science! Microsoft’s new ChatGPT AI starts sending ‘unhinged’ messages to people - Remember Hal?
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| 0:47.2 | So thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of people in France are in the streets |
| 0:54.6 | right now. Well, yesterday, I don't know about today. We'll find out in just a moment. |
| 0:58.8 | On the line with us is our old buddy Cole Stangler, the French American journalist based in |
| 1:03.2 | Marseille, France now, covering labor and politics. He's a correspondent for the International |
| 1:08.0 | News Network, France 24, his website, Cole Stangler, STANGLEAR.com. That's also Cole Stangler, |
| 1:16.4 | is also his Twitter handle. Cole, welcome back to the program. It's been a while since we talked |
| 1:20.8 | to Phil Listen on what's going on in France right now. Why and what? |
| 1:24.6 | Yeah, thanks as always for having me on Tom. So this is a protest movement that it's erupted |
| 1:29.4 | over the government's proposal to hike the earliest possible retirement age in France from |
| 1:36.0 | 62 years where it is right now to 64 years old. Again, that's the lowest level at which you can |
| 1:42.8 | retire with a full pension. So the government reform would do that. It would also a little bit more |
| 1:48.6 | specific measure. It would accelerate the phase in of the minimum amount of years you need to work |
| 1:53.4 | in order to get a full pension. So that would be 43 years and that would also be coming in more |
| 1:59.3 | quickly than previously planned with this reform. So you have these two measures that have provoked a |
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