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http://www.adn.com/2014/04/16/3427681/france-targets-welfare-for-big.html?sp=/99/171/French Prime Minister Manuel Valls delivers a statement after the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday, April 16, 2014. Valls provided details of the government's plan to reduce public spending by 50 billion euros ($ 69 billion) and reiterated that France would honor its European commitments on deficit reduction.
France targets welfare for big spending cuts
The Associated Press
April 16, 2014 Updated 9 minutes ago
PARIS France's prime minister has announced plans to cut 21 billion euros ($29 billion) from pensions, social care and health care as a part of a 50-billion-euro effort to rein in the country's debt and deficit.
Manuel Valls on Wednesday detailed the government plan to cut 10 billion euros from health care and 11 billion euros from pensions and social care by 2017, though he vowed to maintain the benefits for those with the lowest incomes.
The central government will have its spending cut by 18 billion euros, while local councils will see cuts worth 10 billion euros.
France's public spending accounts for about 57 percent of gross domestic product, one of the highest levels in the world.
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France targets welfare for big spending cuts (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Apr 2014
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merrily
(45,251 posts)1. I hope the French people strike the hell out of France.
The "austerity/punish the poor--and only the poor"--bullshit spreads faster than the bubonic plague.
balancing the budget on the backs of those who can least afford it.....
merrily
(45,251 posts)3. Those who can't donate much, if anything and probably don't
even know many who can donate much. Little risk in punishing them for the excesses of the greedy. Like, oh, I don't know, the mortgage derivative frauds that led a great deal of the globe into economic collapse and the lawmakers who changed the laws so that nothing held them back.