Charles Jaigu: “France’s financial crisis has begun”
CHRONICLE - François Villeroy de Galhau puts forward his ideas to get out of the spendthrift state. The former governor of the Bank of France looks back on the lost illusions of his generation. But he displays a…
The state is on its knees and covered in debt. What does it matter! We ask him again and again to give more, to provide better relief.
How can we be surprised? The moon was promised to several generations. Take high school.
From the Haby reform, which created the single college (Giscard, alas), to the 80% of an age group admitted to the general and technical baccalaureate (Jospin and Chevènement). We could have avoided razing for free if the essential Devaquet reform had not been withdrawn under pressure from the streets, in 1986. Free and non-selective university, that's how you kill a country slowly.
The same with decentralization. The debunking of the all-powerful prefect has led us to a sickening territorial muddle. Let us not complain about the consequences of the causes we have cherished.
We recited a Girondin catechism. It is so unfamiliar to us that it gave the results that we know: territorial officials in shambles, territories rebalanced, certainly, but at what cost? With decentralization, hundreds of thousands of civil servants settled in the intermediate floors of Maison France.
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- Le Figaro12 Nov, 12:54
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