Hi Bham,
a lot of relevant elements in what you write.
bham wrote:Yes the middle and popular classes are at the origin of most of the social expenses, firstly because they represent a majority portion of the population and secondly because it is the classes that have the most problems to ensure the end of the month . Why ? because of the purchasing power.
YES, but it deserves a development. On the purchasing power, we take the problem upside down by wanting to act on prices ... if we have such problems of purchasing power in France, it's because since 30 years, we left to rot our industry, we do not manufacture anything except some major industrial achievements (Airbus, TGV, Areva ...).
And on energy, we have never implemented a credible diversification on the renewable: result, we take the rise of oil in full swing when we are already particularly vulnerable.
Finally, we have the nuclear that avoids bankruptcy ... But again, there are disadvantages, Jonule will explain better than me
And the whole fabric of SMEs for small intermediate products is almost absent, unlike Germany.
Caricaturing, there is no salary to pay outside large groups.
Schematically, therefore, we produce nothing, and we buy everything. We are in the situation of a person who does not care and who continues to lead great life ... Results, all our currencies are blocked abroad. 40 Billion
deficit for France, 200 Billion
surplus for Germany in 2007
And in addition we live on credit 2000 Billion Euros of debt. The income tax is not even enough to pay the interest alone
This is madness.
As long as we do not understand that we must produce and sell in all areas rather than sleep and buy, we will go a long way.
And this requires massive support from SMEs and even major industries, the first to avoid their deaths, and the latter to encourage them to STAY in France.
With what money? Here is the problem, we got into the mouise all alone by the laxism of both our government and also the population of which a fringe takes pleasure in assistantship or embezzlement of public aid.
That's why there is such tension currently on all public and social services and social slings are brewing.
Because the system no longer has enough to finance without an electroshock heavy social consequences.
Finally, I never wrote that we had to privatize Social Security
It is a base to preserve absolutely.
But everyone can resort to a mutualized complementary to complete ... The totally common systems without personal and individual commitments never work, or are ultra deficit.
See you later Bham, but we will not remake the world, all this is beyond us!