France’s future - International Herald Tribune
Dans le courrier des lecteurs du IHT, une petite mise au point contre la pensée unique sur le miracle britannique:
France’s future - International Herald Tribune Popular wisdom seems to hold that a President Nicolas Sarkozy, adopting Thatcherite policies, would solve France’s unemployment problem.
The Labour governments that preceded Margaret Thatcher were battered by unemployment, but under the Thatcher regime joblessness continued to soar. Even now, after a decade of Tony Blair’s variation on the theme, the International Herald Tribune reports that there is minimal difference in unemployment between Britain and France.
This seems a very poor prospect to offer the French, considering the high price Britain has paid - an expensive and woefully inadequate transport system; collapsing health and education systems; huge housing inflation; massive debts in a wildly unequal society, with bank directors happily giving themselves bonuses; ruinous involvement in foreign wars; and, unsurprisingly, second only to the United States for the poor condition of its children.
The only French people who look enviously across the Channel are those out to make easy money and avail themselves of a privileged tax system.
Steven Misander, London
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