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Les Prophètes du passé
A confidential report from the Ministry of Work states that the number of unemployed in France could rise by 121,000 in 1996. This forecast is embarrassing for the government because the report notes that the implementation of the key measures in Mr. Chirac's programme, the reduction in social charges and the jobs initiative agreement "would play a very minor role" in cutting back the rise in job losses.
Le Monde, 18.01.96

While I understand the main points of the liberal system, I feel that the sole function of the company is not to create jobs, but simply to create wealth, as much wealth as possible. Creating jobs is exactly the opposite of what a company needs to do in order to play its role as a liberal weapon in the worldwide battle for money. Consequently, no company will make the slightest move towards helping to improve employment figures. It must be said that they would, in this context, be extremely stupid to do so. That no incentives of any kind are likely therefore to encourage companies to create jobs is no surprise. Is there still anyone who does not realise this ? And if so, why don't they ? Or why is it being kept from them? These are the only relevant questions left on this subject.
Thierry A.
The child thought, "Is this what it means to become an adult? After being the master of my bedroom, to become no more than the person who made the door, the carpet, the floor, pencils, or whatever else ?"
Thierry A was twelve in 1969 when he was terrified by the idea of having a really miserable life.
Waiting for economic recovery.
This sounds better and has certain benefits.
- It legitimately absolves the person doing the waiting of individual responsibility
while not accusing anyone.
The lack of blame makes everyone a victim
- As the economy has become the sole faith of western democracies,
waiting for economic recovery is equated
in the mind of the population at large
with the idea of Providence. Each paradise has its own hellBR> as everything has its opposite.
To believe in the economic recovery and to wait for it
is to avoid fearing the end of our world
and to lessen oneÕs own personal drama
by refusing to perceive a wider tragedy.
In the same way that
waiting for a train makes one a traveller
waiting for economic recovery is to be already part of it.
And if the economy is a faith,
the wait is a kind of adulation.
One appreciates the benefits of this semantic choice which transforms

inaction into movement
and despair into bliss.
The problem lies
in the blows to any type of belief
struck by the advancement of knowledge.
In the same way that a pilgrim
going to Lourdes in the hope of gaining the use of his legs, will have his faith weakened
by a little basic knowledge of orthopaedics.
In the same way that a miner of French coal
can only with great difficulty
convince himself that
waiting for the economic recovery will mean that one day he will return to the mines.
As it is no longer possible to hide the disaster
because of its present enormity,
he knows that in waiting for economic recovery
he is waiting for Godot.