Maybe Greta needs to live under a budget

Maybe Greta needs to live under a budget:

So, here’s one for Greta to think about: get a life like a real person.

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Greta Thunberg is back in the news. She has a new cause, a new movement to join, and something to blame Europeans for. Let’s catch up with Greta:

Greta Thunberg, the Swedish activist known for her climate alarmism, joined French students protesting school conditions Tuesday, praising their movement as France grapples with weeks of demonstrations and violent clashes.

Thunberg appeared outside a high school near the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, where students gathered early in the morning with placards and megaphones, chanting slogans. The 23-year-old activist, who first gained recognition for her own school strike over climate change in 2018, said she is there to support the teens protesting their “basic rights.”

“The whole world is watching with awe for these students who are fighting back, reclaiming their future that has been taken away from them,” Thunberg said at the protest. “We are also seeing this spreading across the country and internationally as well — young people looking at this as an example.”

“Many people here, especially the young people, are told ‘Oh, you are just being problematic, you’re just causing trouble, and you don’t really know what you’re doing,’ which are narratives defined by extremely racist media and politicians,” she added.    Thunberg said the protestors “don’t need me at all,” but argued that her “privileged” position gave her a duty to support them. 

“I am an extremely privileged person. I am a white person from Sweden. I am very much part of this very destructive system that systematically benefits people like me,” she said.

A system that benefits people like her? Really, Greta? Privileged position? Greta has been reading too much about the 1619 Project.  

Teens protesting their basic rights? Protesting by injuring 700 police officers? You can’t make this up.  

“The whole world is watching”? Weren’t they chanting that at the 1968 riots during the DNC convention in Chicago? Get a new chant, Greta.

As I understand it, France is facing an “argent” problem, or French for money. That’s what I remember from that quick French class that I saw on the internet. No matter what the word is, the problem is that France, like many countries, has to address budget concerns, and bloated education bureaucracies are one place to start. Too many bureaucrats at the main office writing memos and handbooks to justify their existence. France can’t afford that anymore, and some cutting is inevitable.  

That’s life, Greta! That’s the way it is for people, unlike Greta, who have to live within a budget. You can’t always get what you want, as that old Rolling Stones song goes.

Of course, that’s not what Greta wants to hear or attempt to understand. She lives in the land of victims or the corner of promoting herself. Greta knows that the media loves a young woman who blames everything in her culture. What does a shortage of teachers or lousy classrooms have to do with French culture? I don’t know, but it sounds good in this age of quick fame and X posts.

So, here’s one for Greta to think about: get a life like a real person. Maybe you’ll be happier if you stop going from cause to cause to seek happiness.

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