Austerity Measures Suck

I am with the French on this one.  People should be able to retire at 55 if they so choose.  That's what I remember, at the age of 55, people can retire and live a normal life happily ever after, the end.  Now it's more like 65 or 75.  And basically you work till you drop dead so they don't even have to pay out any pension benefits at all.  That's brilliant.  So more reason to burn more cars in the street so long as there is still gasoline which I read the supply is like in the Mad Max movies: fossil fuel is in short supply and almost non existent in France.  Wow, dooms day scenario now.  You know what's worse, even Lady Gaga had to cancel her concert in Paris.  People need entertainments, people need Lady Gaga especially in tough times like now.