You likely saw/heard/read the news reports coming from France, as infuriated workers burned cars and blocked streets in protest of a government to raise the nation’s retirement age from 60 to 62.
My first thought was hoping no one was harmed. But secondly, I thought, “Those French people want to have it all — with their 35-hour workweek and their guaranteed five weeks of vacation. Now they’re grumbling about working two more measly years, when many Americans have given up the idea of retiring at all?! Pfft!”
