Involvement of the State in either activity

The old reflexes are. An attempt to discredit the health reform project proposed by Barack Obama, the American Republican camp agitated throughout the summer a scarecrow: the "French Model". Synonym probably of statism, waste and inefficiency. Even if everything is not perfect in the way we treat our sick and, on our side, we also tend to caricature the American system, there are good reasons to think that English is largely that effective addition-Atlantic.

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In the spring, it was another song, more sweet, who came from England. "The Economist", London magazine, launched a surprising "long live the France! A celebration, a little still, distanced itself from our welfare State and its "automatic stabilizers", budgetary and social, so valuable in times of crisis. A country like ours, where there is not one area in which the sum of the salaries of the private sector is higher than the wages of public and social benefits, less head-on suffered the shocks of globalization. But this gentle way of life, relative even verifiable in good balance of tourist summer, pays by a record of expenditure from the wealth produced, well above 50, unsustainable long-term level.

This double Anglo-Saxon vision locked us into the same trap: the "French exception." A syndrome that makes us regularly alternating puffs of arrogance and shots of the Blues. When Nicolas Sarkozy came to power, the "déclinisme" was fully operational. Average power global ambitions, the France had behaved rather like a poor power giving lessons to the world. The gap between the experience and the posture had a certain evil live. The climate has changed today. Because of the tremendous turmoil that hit the financial world over the past year, the world, in its own way is declining.

Our economy has suffered the wave like the others, but not more, or even a little less. The decline in the GDP is located exactly in the global average. The rise of the structurally higher unemployment that elsewhere, has been amortized, if while the poor French student goes step immediately navigate there still the OECD average. The magnitude of the deficit is more, far away, a national specialty. Involvement of the State in either activity. In Europe as in the US, it is estimated that the value of the risk that the taxpayer has supported this terrible year, in multiple forms (recapitalisation of financial institutions), guarantees on bank balance sheets, options on "rotten" assets, represents nearly 30 of the GDP.

Return the global Pack however goes beyond a paradoxical windfall effect related to a catastrophic situation. It is also the fruit of deeper changes desired by the political power. Presidential activism makes it sometimes difficult to approach its mid-term, determine the lines of force of its reforms. There is one but rarely expressed this way, but that seems undeniable: reconciling the France with his time. Most of the economic laws passed since 2007 obey this watchword: they seek less to distinguish us from the rest of the large market economies to bring closer us. The tax shield also challenged, finalized a long-term realignment of our rules on taxation of individuals on the international standards. The abolition of the tax professional, still to come, is the same for businesses. The autonomy of the universities, the research tax credit, the clarification of the conditions of Union representativeness, the work of the diman-che is part of the same path. The next building of local communities, the health and retirement, of course, also.

Continuing in this way, the France strengthens its chances of not to miss, as often before, the train of the global recovery. But the old temptation of "exceptionalism" is never far away. Reduction of VAT on hotels and restaurants had a small perfume. As identified by the carbon tax will depend on many of its terms. Unfortunately, it is already more staunch in what concerns the big loan. In a field, finally, it can even speak of a reverse trend: it is the policy. The collapse of the left, the implosion of the PS, the absence of a true leader of the opposition, have virtually killed in egg any sketch debate of ideas. The only voices that are heard are those of the extremes, who rightly consider that their theories are not discussed. Person is win if French democracy remains too long the only walk a single foot.