Turnabout is fair play - France

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Remember French President Emmanuel Macron laughing at our President Trump at the NATO meeting a few days ago?
At least, we do not have this - from the London Daily Mail:

Who's laughing now, Macron? France is paralyzed by worst nationwide strike for decades, with schools shutting and public transport grinding to a halt, as furious public sector workers protest pension reforms
More than 800,000 demonstrators marched on cities throughout France today, with railway workers, teachers and hospital staff joining the largest strike in decades.

Authorities in Paris barricaded the presidential palace and deployed some 6,000 police as activists, many in yellow vests, gathered for a major march aimed at forcing President Emmanuel Macron to abandon his pension reform plans.

Officers were forced to use tear gas to disperse rioters who set fire to a vehicle and smashed windows as tensions heightened close to the Place de la Republique square.

The labor unions over there demanded large pensions for their retired workers but the government did not fund them and they are starting to run out of money. Any attempt to fix this is met with protest. Unfortunately, the government has spent a lot of the money on alt.energy and other social feel-good scams so they are between a rock and a hard place.

Meanwhile, back at home, from CNS News:

158,593,000 Employed in November: 24th Record Breaker for Trump
President Donald Trump frequently points to the strong economy as one of his major accomplishments, and today's employment summary gives him more bragging rights:

The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics says the economy added a whopping 266,000 jobs in November; and for the sixth month in a row, a record number of Americans were counted as employed.

158,593,000 Americans were working in November, the 24th record of Trump's presidency.

The unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a point to 3.5 percent, a 50-year low.

Leadership - not feel-good rhetoric.

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