Bruno Le Maire repeats it tirelessly, in interviews written on TV sets:
“
We must replace the welfare state with the protective state
”
. Strange formulation, worthy of Sapeur Camember decreeing that
“
when the limits are crossed there are no more limits
”
, because the two terms are strictly synonymous. The welfare state in our country, the “welfare state” (“State of well-being” word for word) in the Anglo-Saxon countries, the “social state” in Switzerland, these names fundamentally designate the same thing: it It is about protecting citizens from socio-economic risks, beyond the traditional sovereign functions of a State.
This was the aim in 1945, when Social Security was created, to respond to the four major “risks” of life, which, in administrative jargon, designate illness, family, work accidents, and old age. Hence the four “
branches
” of the general French social security system, responsible for…
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