In countries like France, their incapacity (even in government) of solving the real problems has only resulted the rise of extremism.

Strange how job creation (and growth) was at record levels under the Jospin government. How the tax burden went down during that period. How real progress like CMU (universal health cover for the poorest) or PACS (civil unions) took place.

Your arguments are just false - the mindless repetition of the slurs of the right.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes