It was one of the last crimes of the Macronist gang of criminals: Bruno Le Maire had announced a gigantic austerity plan in February, with 10 billion euros of cuts in the public services budget. The Macronists cut these “savings” in the field of knowledge and education: 692 million less for National Education, which is already collapsing, and 904 million less for higher education and research, while universities are already struggling and many high school graduates cannot find a place there.
The collective Nos services publics estimated that such cuts represent 8,000 fewer positions in education and 7,500 in higher education. The CGT Educ’action also mentions 4,600 fewer AED and AESH positions. These are education assistants and support workers for students with disabilities, essential for educating the students who are having the most difficulties. Macronism is the hardest bourgeoisie, the one that sacrifices education, and therefore the future of young people, but continues to increase the budget for the army and the police. Fewer books and more batons.
At the same time, as part of the major useless projects for the Paris Olympics, the promise to “make the Seine swimmable” this summer for the swimming events. To do this, the State has put in the big guns: 1.4 billion euros, for a whim. Not that cleaning up the Seine is a bad idea, but here it is just a bluff in the context of a major Olympic ceremony, when it could have been done gradually.
Macron and Paris Mayor Hidalgo had thus promised to bathe in the Seine. A meeting postponed, and even ousted by the electoral campaign: the dissolution saved them.
Indeed, the concentrations of Escherichia coli, a bacteria of fecal origin, which can cause poisoning, are well above the standards required by the International Swimming Federation.
