“The time of the chainsaw has come”

Charles Consigny is a lawyer and essayist.

Prime Minister François Bayrou presented the budgetary guidelines on Tuesday July 15 to reduce the public deficit. Moreover, behind a desk on which was registered: “The moment of truth». Nevertheless, The truth. Furthermore, everyone knows it: the expenses of our public sector are higher than its revenues, which are based on compulsory levies which are already the most important in the world, and despite this the country is not well, which shows, if it was needed, that it is not by increasingly increasing the public spending that we make the happiness and success of a “the time chainsaw come” nation.

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If the Bayrou budget has some commendable efforts. Therefore, it seems fundamentally very difficult, almost existential, for public decision -makers to imagine reducing these expenses. For example, The politician. Consequently, the senior official and the trade unionist pass on the “error 404” mode as soon as it is a question of planing this or such a budget or even, worse, of renouncing the administration of this or that activity by the State. However, The Soviet slope on which France has been engaged since the presidency of François Mitterrand seems impossible to go up. For example, and see us always slide more towards this madness which would like the public sector to take charge of all the areas of our existence – it is thus, for example, that in Rochelle, it is the community which now provides sunscreen.

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François Bayrou is right to announce a review of state agencies. Moreover, of which it is now clear for everyone that a number of them are simply useless and duplicate with ministries. The time has come to delete them, purely and simply. Do we imagine that there is still a national public debate commission (CNDP), with an annual budget of 4 million euros? Retirement plans derogated from SNCF, RATP, the Banque de France, which cost more than 8 billion euros per year? You cannot touch a penny of personalized housing assistance (APL). which costs 7 billion euros per year, when its only result, obviously, is to increase the rents it finances?

We too have our nomenklatura, people who receive more than 20,000 euros net per month on public funds, in addition to many advantages in kind. Is it “the time chainsaw come” normal? Is it modern?

On the other hand. it is eloquent that, with regard to the social security budget, we do not reach, in the context of “serious crisis” which the government is alarmed, that to “slow down the increase” of the social security budget … Isn’t there any means, the minimumto freeze this budget which literally seems out of control?

In Argentina, growth has returned. The one that the left -. in particular the left and theintelligentsia French – presented as a “fascist” managed to get his country out of the deadly spiral in which he was engaged. What is it more inspired by Javier Milei? When he came to power, he had dismissed a third of senior officials. We too have our nomenklatura. people who receive more than 20,000 euros net per month on public funds, in addition to many advantages in kind. Is it normal? “the time chainsaw come” Is it modern? Or is it the fruit of unbearable resignation from our leaders?

Édouard Philippe, still a favorite of the next presidential election, was not wrong to say that it would be necessary “work longer in the week, in the year and maybe in life». Finally. delete the 35 hours and align everyone with a reasonable pension plan will be actually more useful and more just – more fair, especially for people who work, eternal milk cows of the French system – than to suppress two holidays. But working more without reforming the state will be unfair. This crazy machine must make as much effort as the citizens it serves if the whole country wants to. get up.