This article claimed that there is no need for reform in France ...
First sentence in the penultimate paragraph:
This is not to say that France has no problems, or is in need of no change at all. But the word "reform" has become the bearer of such an ideological bias that honest discourse would be better off avoiding it.
A Fistful of Euros: Why reform has become a dirty word. (by David Weman on 8 September 2006). Bush is a symptom, not the disease.
This article claimed that there is no need for reform in France
This is the exact opposite of what we're saying. What we are saying is that the "reform" (note the quotes - they are in the title, and flagged in the first paragraph of the text) we are being sold is a one way ideological agenda to improve the short term profitability of (big) corporations and lower the taxes of the rich, at the expense of everybody else. And we have the numbers to prove it.
Of course France needs reform - just not the kind everybody has been unthinkingly led to believe are 'inevitable'. Have you noted the Hegelian/Marxist bend of these proclamation that free-market reform is inevitable? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
