Monday
morning, the SNCF announced
abysmal losses: 12 billion euros for 2015. 48 hours later, to celebrate, thousands of trade unionists and
railway workers marched through the
streets to defend their status
in solid gold.
When one is in a monopoly situation, it is easy to take the user (finally the customer - the taxpayer) hostage and to paralyze the country.
Monday
morning, the SNCF announced
abysmal losses: 12 billion euros for 2015. 48 hours later, to celebrate, thousands of trade unionists and
railway workers marched through the
streets to defend their status
in solid gold.
As often in France, it is the privileged who complain the most, those who benefit from
lifetime employment. And it is shameless that they block hundreds of thousands of travelers who often work in the private and toil to make ends meet.
You will say, normal SNCF
does not care to be managed well, it's not his
money that turned its machines. And you
are right, because yes, dear
friend taxpayer is
still you to pay for
these deleted or delayed trains, and for those that are gréviculteurs shock railway.
Which "convicts rail"
enjoy a list of
benefits and facilities long
as your arm: mean age of starting to lower pension of the
French, the amount of pensions (1917 euros per month
in 2011) far superior
pensions private, 50,000 restricted housing railway men, free tickets for the whole family. And many more. All thanks to public
money infusions, eg. via your taxes!
SNCF in 2015 as every
year for ages, pumped taxpayers over 11 billion of public aid, excluding financing of the special pension scheme (you know those guys who leave to
chill for 50 or 55 years) costs us over 3
billion per year. Since its
creation in 1938, the railway
mammoth owes its survival to the enforced generosity
of taxpayers. That is enough!
This is certainly
France, but France
like this one, irresponsible, clinging to its privileges retrograde,
and that ruins the
country, is not France.
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