In a news report early this morning, MSNBC noticed that some 3.5 million residents of France were demonstrating in the streets against raising the retirement age from 60 to 62.
In the U.S. the current age is 66 with a law change leading to 67.
There was no mention of the strike affecting the supplies of airline fuel, a huge number of schools closed, or how supplies of goods and services are being affected.
MSNBC doesn’t want to report too much. It might seem that raising the retirement age for working people is an important issue and might infect the ideas of otherwise sedated Americans, including our children and grandchildren who may see their Social Security cut by Obama’s deficit commission under Alan Simpson.
MSNBC owner, General Electric, this past week reported an increase in net profits of 29%, proving that not everyone is suffering in a depression.
Published by Fred Donaldson
First full-time job at 17 was dollar-an-hour newspaper copyboy at the Evening and Sunday Bulletin (760,000 daily). Promotions led to general assignments and rewrite at that Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper (1964 and 1965). After the Bulletin, served as the editor of Valley Forge Sentinel and Conshohocken Recorder, Sr. VP of their newspaper group in 1972, and became publisher in 1975 of the West Oak Lane Leader - an African-American community newspaper - for the next 18 years.
In 1993 named president of ING's 18-newspapers in Metro Philadelphia and New Jersey. Company was later purchased by JRC (NYSE), and I was appointed publisher of the Montgomery/Bucks/Philly newspaper division by the infamous Journal Register CEO Bob Jelenic.
During the 60s and 70s, I corresponded for the United States Information Agency, reporting and writing for publication in foreign countries.
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