‘Let the Hunger Games begin.’
‘The “participation society” has been on its way for some time: benefits such as unemployment compensation and subsidies on health care have been regularly pruned for the past decade. The retirement age has been raised to 67.
The king said Tuesday some costs for the care of the elderly, for youth services, and for job retraining after layoffs will now be pushed back to the local level, in order to make them better tailored to local circumstances.
The king earns an annual salary of around 825,000 euros ($1.1 million), though maintaining the Royal House — castles, parades and all — costs the government more than 100 million euros annually.’
I have been warning for so many years that the global Hunger Games society was the goal of the less-than-one-per-cent and this is yet another example of what I mean.
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