France is setting up to cut two public holidays. Easter Monday & May 8 line up to save about €4-4.2 billion by raising productivity. But most of the polls show that nigh on 70% people are against this. Major trade unions and both left & right parties are also opposing. Probably because they actually earn money from these two holidays. But obviously they are not going to say that. You know, similar initiatives like Raffarin's 2003 -day of solidarity- failed amid strikes and confusion. Real savings look like symbolic compared to the debt. Sometimes I think it is shifting the burden to ordinary workers while systemic spending cuts and fair taxes go on untouched. It is something like first class political shenanigans, not real reform. Some were trying to benefit by cutting two holidays, and some others were unhappy.