Sarcozy and the French are out of options...

Chaos and anarchy to follow.

One of the great overlooked problems with socialism, is that once it has been established in a society, it must at some point reach it's tipping point. The point at which the society can no longer sustain the obligations. The point at which the system collapses upon itself.

That point has been reached in France and it will soon be reached in other European countries and the UK. The days of wine and roses are over. The simple fact is, these Societies cannot sustain unrestrained socialist giveaway programs.  And now that they are facing the inevitable, those about to be cut and those yet to receive their slice of the public pie are spilling into the streets demanding that the end cannot (will not) be.

But it is......

Sarkozy stands firm as pension protests escalate

President Nicolas Sarkozy could face the greatest challenge of his presidency in the next few days as a month-old protest against pension reform swells towards outright confrontation.

More than 3 million demonstrators – one in 20 of all French people – marched yesterday against the President's plans to raise the standard retirement age from 60 to 62. Tens of thousands of students joined the marches for the first time, threatening to radicalise the protests and broaden them into a rebellion against a deeply unpopular presidency.

Militant union branches in the railway and oil-refining industries were pushing last night for a showdown with Mr Sarkozy, who has made reform of the loss-making state pension system the make-or-break issue of his final 20 months in office.

When societies collapse, chaos and violence are always the end result. The collapse has begun in France and unless something happens to forestall or postpone the reality that president Sarkozy is being forced to address financially, then the outcome is both predictable and inevitable. As the days and weeks pass, France will slip farther and farther into the abyss of social anarchy, until a point is reached where the economy completely collapses and all that is left is rioting and rampaging in the streets. Then comes civil war.
 
Much has been written about history repeating itself and the French are about to receive a front row seat to their own latest chapter.