(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #239 - Government announcements: Responsible pact ... misery (fr, pt)

Pact responsibility is sometimes called gift for bosses. This is wrong! A gift only pay 
once. While workers will pay the pact lifetime ... ---- Avoid any false debate on a pseudo 
turning liberal socialist government. The ads Valls distills drop counts are not a turn or 
a disappointment. The government simply tighten the screw, round after round, Holland 
after Sakozy. Slowly but surely those who have the capital dispossess those who live by 
their wages. Inexorably in the absence of adequate social response. ---- A pact that would 
create "balanced effort" but contains no measure tax loopholes, the various exemptions, 
legal evaporation or shareholder dividends as it is to "give confidence to investors and 
improve competitiveness business. " A pact that, unable to play a competitive devaluation 
of the euro, which would give the margin to French companies to export, organizes tax and 
social devaluation: Tax benefit bosses but at the expense of social workers ...

And all this without any consideration of course. No more now than in recent years as 
employers already offered subsidies of EUR 200 billion per year without the employees or 
the unemployed there are any counterparty. Instead lower employees contributions announced 
by Valls as a gain of EUR 500 per year for a smicard is actually a flight of 500 euros its 
indirect salary! Recall again that some right-wing ideologues call payroll are actually 
units of salary saved together in social funds that redistribute the share of wages in 
accordance with the needs of each illness, disability, unemployment, retirement. ..

CFDT had approved the inaugural address Valls finally found the measures specified "not 
fair." And whines after monitoring committee counterparties that Valls just forgot to 
mention! Even the Socialist deputies allegedly discovered speech Valls after the Council 
of Ministers on live TV reluctant: so that workers will take quite a slap ...

50 billion transferred

One might have expected that some $ 80 billion in dividends paid to shareholders each year 
could fund a pact applied in their sole interest. Nay! New cuts or exemptions from fees, 
duties and taxes for businesses 50bn will therefore be fully funded by the population 
unemployed and retirees:

1) 18 billion found on state spending: prolonged civil servants' salaries until 2017 
blocking massive job cuts, dismantling whole services ...

2) 11 billion stolen from the operating grant local communities. Having a centralized 
share of local taxes, promising a fairer distribution between rich cities and poor towns 
the state decreed that no reverse at all! Nice sleight of hand that will bring public 
services to remove or raise local taxes. It is the killing of many projects and the loss 
of jobs that were related. And to lock the device, a draft bonus / malus allow the 
government to reduce allocations to cities who choose to stand up ...

3) 10 billion taken from Medicare. This is the announced closure of many local hospitals, 
lower refunds care and drugs, with the end of the growing inability to heal.

4) retracted 11 billion on social benefits. The revaluation of pensions, including 
complementary, had already been postponed for six months. This time pensions as housing 
allowances and family benefits will be blocked until October 2015 (at least ...). And 
ASSEDICs must be two billion savings, which will allow patrons to request a rapid 
renegotiation of agreements were to run until June 2016.

The deficit to 3% of GDP?

Experts are divided on the outcome of these "brave but insufficient reforms" ... If OFCE 
calculates that austerity should bring us back to 3% desired by the European treaties, but 
at the cost of growth in unemployment and violent recession, others already announced that 
this will not be enough and it takes more ambition in the "reforms". It is said that the 
UMP, while the FN and IDU tactical intelligence to be indignant, but also that the MEDEF 
yourself hoping new discounts and has a plan to save said 30 billion just on health care 
spending.

In the shadow of the Pact other bad things are afoot. Differentiated minimum wage (by 
industry? Youth?) Returns way too recurrent to be a chance. Shocks simplification behind 
some common sense measures against some paperwork will be discreet opportunity for new 
discounts to patrons. 'Simplification' of the Labour Code which is also announced and will 
be the opportunity to destroy a bit more of our collective protections to begin by 
questioning the workforce size thresholds (CFDT agrees " ease "). In the crosshairs are in 
particular the threshold of 11 employees that triggers the election of staff 
representatives and the 50 which triggers the creation of a works council. Finally, behind 
the impact of simplification institutions with pool areas, the disappearance of 
departments and grouping of cities in communities inhuman dimensions, additional widening 
gap between good people and those who claim to represent but prefer not to see; especially 
when it comes to mow!

Over the ads every week add anxiety to misfortune, the government plays the steamroller 
and waltz billions lost. Calendar of various negotiations between workers and employers' 
unions, vote of confidence late April vote remedial legislation funding the social 
security in June, vote in the fall freeze benefits, everything is done to make you dizzy 
and discourage the response of workers and youth. And already we feel the coming days rain 
and vain actions, sad processions Bastille-Nation who know helpless ... It is time that 
the response is up to the attacks. It is time to move slogans same radicals to really 
radical actions, strikes, occupations, blockades ... If we fail to stop the round strongly 
goods and benefits we will not block the famous screw, turn after turn, we strangles.

Jean-Yves (AL 93)