Phave enough” Welfare state ” has a “protective state”, that’s what suggested Bruno Le Maire, in an interview given to Sunday newspaperthe 17th of March. Behind the words of the Minister of the Economy lies in reality a manipulative government. Rather than sewing up his punctured pockets and filling them again by going to get the money where it accumulates, he prefers to slash public services.
In particular, it impoverishes the departments at the expense of our elders, young people, people with disabilities, women and men living in difficulty, in short at the expense of those for whom the departmental public service is the first door to social protection and emancipation.
The budgetary rigor that he advocates limits local public action to areas of intervention which increasingly reduce solidarity with the ” speechless “to use the expression of the general director of the Abbé Pierre Foundation, Christophe Robert (For the voiceless, Arthaud, 304 pages, 19.90 euros). Our model of society based on freedom, equality and fraternity is threatened.
Although the subject seems unusual, bridges are a striking example. According to the Senate information report “Bridge safety: avoiding a tragedy » (2019), one bridge in ten in France would be at risk, i.e. 25,000 bridges, most of which have been granted to the departments for a long time, without compensation commensurate with the maintenance they require. The first affected are the inhabitants of our rural areas: if the bakery, the press, our child’s activity or the doctor’s office is on the other side of the bridge, the closure of it can cause a real social breakdown or even worse, a breakdown in care. In any case, a break in the link.
Public investment
Let’s talk about the connection and care professions. From child protection to support for our elders, the entire social field is affected by technocratic savings measures decided by the government even though salary increases and improvements in working conditions in the sector require a prerequisite: public investment. Who pays the consequences?
According to a report established by the Youth Policy Orientation Council (COJ) and the National Child Protection Council (CNPE), young adults who benefit from a child protection measure and whose the number increased by 9% between 2018 and 2019 and 30% between 2019 and 2020 ! Our parents or our grandparents who, like 85% of French people, according to the IFOP, want to age at home as long as possible and will not be able to. As for link professionals, they see human time dwindling in the face of administrative constraints which devour the meaning of their work.
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