Sarkozy announces huge job cuts

Sarkozy announces huge job cuts: "'I want a public service that is smaller, better paid and with better career prospects,' he said."

It's extraordinary how western democracies are all spouting the same thing...whether it be about beefing up of security, dealing with water, Gm food, "efficiency" in the delivery of health, education and public sector agencies and/or media and telecommunications. Administration. Jobs lost but CEO salaries quite lovely, really. Then the outsourcing, the downsizing and the reforms. The arguments are the same. Same anti smoking campaigns, same public service changes, same banking reforms. We just get a federal blueprint stamped across democracies and who benefits? Job are changing , life is changing but through the restructuring key positions as consultants become lucrative as many people lose their jobs. Unions are discredited. We've been there, done that. It increases the government agencies but decreases the public service because people are not there to deliver the service. So people deal with letters, protocol, administrative and bureaucratic systems. When you want something solved then you are always talking to the person not authorised to do anything. Is there evidence that we have benefited? Our public service is a skeleton of what it was, so it is almost invisible. Government , though, has a much higher profile.France should look quite interesting over the next few months as they try to deal with this.