I almost fell out of my chair when I read this statement made by a french commoner.............
Sergeanne Royal does not seem to understand that before you can collect taxes from the rich, you have to create the wealth to tax.
Herein lies her weakness, as well as lack of business experience and how capitalism works to the advantage of all sectors of the community.
Redistributing old money is finite. The creation and nurturing of present and future wealth has a chance of lasting, provided it is managed.
France can only grow stronger if the natural and human resources of this great country are harnessed and made productive, concentrating on added value. MYLES STANISTREET, CAZENEUVE, FRANCE 32
To have such an intelligent, common sense perspective exist under the extreme leftist media machine that subjacates all of Europe seems impossible. But I guess the people have started to wake up when they realize that such policies do not actually improve people's lives as a whole but instead retard any attempt at making real progress.
From Denis Boyles:
The encouraging insistence on change that propelled the early days of this campaign seems to have come first from the French grass-roots. A half-century of growing a massive government as a means of buying electoral passivity has left France with a failing health system, a stagnant economy (a slight uptick in consumer spending not withstanding), an educational system and other public services in steep decline, a self-serving political class, and an entrenchment of cynicism as a permanent national political characteristic.
posted April 22, 2007 10:03
