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«“Whatever it takes”: in the country of the wooden check»

2022-12-28T19:20:40.278Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Gaëtan de Capèle. And now, a check for Yule logs! Not (yet) the traditional ones that brighten up New Year's Eve tables, but those that supply the stoves for heating: since December 27, the great fair for public aid intended to reduce the energy bill of the French has been enriched with a good called "wooden check". The government does not have the first euro in hand to finance it, but, at the point where public fi


And now, a check for Yule logs!

Not (yet) the traditional ones that brighten up New Year's Eve tables, but those that supply the stoves for heating: since December 27, the great fair for public aid intended to reduce the energy bill of the French has been enriched with a good called "wooden check".

The government does not have the first euro in hand to finance it, but, at the point where public finances are, it is no longer within a few hundred million deficits.

The extraordinary system of “whatever the cost”, decreed in the face of the gravity of the health crisis, was however supposed to disappear at the same time as the pandemic.

But with the return of inflation and the sacralization of purchasing power, the machine is still running at full speed.

Surreptitiously an all-risk insurance policy was set up at the expense of the State, which takes charge of all the annoyances that arise.

The extraordinary has become the ordinary.

To the point of pouring...

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Source: lefigaro

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