This is an excellent article... I was just about to start a thread with it but found you had already found it. Thanks.
This seems to be a really good analysis... not only of the situation facing France, but the situation that is slowly developing, I fear, in the US.
If we can’t stop the creep of socialism in the US soon, we’re going to find ourselves in the same place in ten or so years -— with work devalued so much that it leisure completely dominates our thoughts and desires, and where cradle-to-grave care by our government is expected.
Simon Heffer does good work. He’s sort of a Brit cross between Ann Coulter and Mark Steyn, if you domesticated Ann’s hair-on-fire style and Mark’s ineffable word crafting.