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Purchasing power: "The mirage of magic money"

2022-01-23T20:26:46.850Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Gaëtan de Capèle. It was to be a ripple, at most a light swell that would dissipate once the economy got back on its feet. It looks more and more like a sea of ​​heavy weather: inflation, this scourge that we thought was definitively vanquished, takes on a more worrying consistency each month. The French - to whom it is explained that their purchasing power continues to increase - feel it in their daily lives when


It was to be a ripple, at most a light swell that would dissipate once the economy got back on its feet.

It looks more and more like a sea of ​​heavy weather: inflation, this scourge that we thought was definitively vanquished, takes on a more worrying consistency each month.

The French - to whom it is explained that their purchasing power continues to increase - feel it in their daily lives when they pay their rent, fill up their shopping cart or their tank.

And it is becoming more and more loudly known, poll after poll.

In our country, a solid political tradition wants the State, omnipresent, omnipotent, to fulfill these expectations.

It is therefore not surprising that the presidential candidates compete in imagination to make untenable promises, nor that the government signs check after check without having the first euro in the cash.

We know, alas, where this mirage of magic money leads.

He methodically asphyxiates the public accounts, to the point of plunging us into a…

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Source: lefigaro

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