Public holidays, remaining costs, paid leave and public services: four measures that symbolize Bayrou's class politics

Hands off the €211 billion in government aid to businesses or the €1,128 billion in assets accumulated by France's 500 richest people. François Bayrou coddles the rich and hands over the bill to everyone else. Health care, social gains, and public sector employees are bearing the brunt of the budget cuts.

For the government, the public deficit is not due to poor management on its part. But it is the fault of the French people, who are apparently taking it easy, their low activity rate explaining the lack of wealth creation and condemning us to paying on credit for our social model and our public services. Let's force them to work two more days by taking away two public holidays, May 8 and Easter Monday. And an additional 4.2 billion will fall into the state coffers, according to Matignon. "It's a triple penalty," denounces Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT. "We're going to work more to earn less and see our social rights taken away."...