Jack takes a sudden interest in the French state.
CHIRAC AIMS TO BRING FRANCE'S UNEMPLOYMENT BELOW 8 PERCENT
PARIS October 10, 2006 (IHT/AP) - President Jacques Chirac urged France on Tuesday to modernize its labor laws and bring the jobless rate below 8 percent next year — but said the government should consult the people before making any bold moves.
JACK PRESCRIBES A LOWER RATE
It's Just That Easy!
In setting the 8 percent unemployment goal, Chirac said: "Our ambition should go farther than that. It should be to free our country from mass unemployment." [L'objectif, c'est de passer, dans le courant de l'année prochaine, sous la barre des 8% de chômeurs. Mais notre ambition doit aller bien au-delà. Elle doit être de libérer notre pays du chômage de masse, ce fléau qui, depuis vingt-cinq ans, a fait tant de ravages.]... Tuesday's speech was part of a series of appearances by Chirac aimed at influencing French governance and France's direction in the coming months — before the campaign for next year's presidential elections gets into full swing. Chirac is not expected to run for a third term.
We were under the impression that Jack was still president and as such actually obliged to govern, not influence governance from the periphery. The amazing thing about Jack's influence tour is that it comes so late. And that it is so empty. For example, in this latest wand-wave, what is the concrete plan for reducing unemployment to 8%? Dialogue. Oh, had Jack only thought of that in 2002 or 1995, or as recently as this spring, what agonies France would have been spared.
For Jack pronouncement itself is enough.
CHIRAC EXHORTE LE GOUVERNEMENT À SE MOBILISER PENDANT 250 JOURS
[JACK EXHORTS THE GOVERNMENT TO MOBILIZE DURING (ITS LAST ) 250 DAYS]
25 août 2006 (Figaro)
And the government has skipped along on that exhortation.
Remember the pronouncement of a "new impulse" government? Better known as the "no impulse" government, the government that flops into action.
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