**Patrick Parment**'s post France, compared to other countries, could appear as a cocagne country insofar as the workers, so dear to the heart of the late (well not really!) Georges Marchais, are treated fairly well. A situation that many European countries envy us. This is also the reason why many migrants seek to settle there. And this, let's face it, despite an administration that can only be compared to that of the former Soviet Union. The nation state that the French have built is a centralizing state that intends to rule everything in the lives of its fellow citizens. This apparent well-being comes at a cost: heavy taxation and which a finance ministry jealously maintains regardless of which side it obeys. The downside, and not the least, is a state frozen in its gravity and which has failed to modernize its operating methods and regenerate its industrial tools. And to the point that a political class, detached from reality and caught up in the infernal spiral of mad liberalism, has continued to apply the good old recipes which mean that it is always the people who pay the bills and not those who are responsible for it. The rich don't care, the poor don't, and the middle class toast. [*After*…]