A little over a month the local elections, it is useful to revisit the reasons why many departments to be on the brink of bankruptcy, and on responses to it. Sarkozy government policy and reform communities aimed at removing a few more people and places of power occurs, in fact, as the epilogue of a process begun last twenty years. All successive governments have been a single obsession: how to skip all locks, all resistance to the European integration policy? How do local relays, the most efficient possible, a policy the regression? How to make the financial windfall that are their expenses? Maastricht Treaty, to the Nice and Lisbon, we find the same logic: the economic war, competition between men and territories, financialization of the entire economy toward greater profitability at the expense of expenses for salaries, training, research, to the detriment of public services and social spending. In 2000, a commission chaired by Pierre Mauroy is responsible for preparing the second act of decentralization. It is reported a clarification of responsibilities, transfer of RMI departments. The future of the latter is described as dependent on the development of intermunicipal. But the most significant development has been the assertion in the context of Europe, regions larger and stronger. It is in these conditions that may Raffarin in 2003 to pass a reform that is causing the financial asphyxiation face today a growing number of departments. RMI, national roads, staff colleges TOS (technicians and skilled workers) are transferred to the departments. But the project Raffarin, "the mother of all reforms," as he liked to say, was much more than a second act of decentralization. With the passage of a constitutional act, it was a reform as important as that of 1958 and that was to change the daily life of French with the consequences of which we measure the damage today.
We were facing a challenge to civilization, but, apart from the communists, all elected were placed on the same ground as the government demand more powers. Remember that this constitutional reform was passed unanimously by the parliament in joint session March 28, 2003, with the exception of Communist deputies and senators. In these circumstances it was easier for Sarkozy to prepare the report on Balladur, his project of breaking local authorities. The situation of near bankruptcy in which there are an estimated one third of departments had contained the seeds of the vote in the constitutional reform in March 2003. With the transfer of large segments of the major missions national policy to departments and regions, all social and territorial inequalities have worsened.
With the crisis, the departments are facing an unprecedented increase in social expenditure (income solidarity active allocation custom self, compensatory allowance of disability). It should of course require the State to compensate "the euro" by these transfers. But the time is not it time to ask the state to resume the name of national solidarity payment of benefits to beneficiaries of RSA ? Similarly, while the debate on dependency is on the agenda, funding for the APA by the departments should it be sustained? Since its establishment on 1 January 2002, the Communist councilors of our department has relied on this progress to recognize the dependency of the elderly, who have contributed all their lives, as the fifth risk whose support would be provided by the Social Security. The news of this proposal does not she perfect sense today? So, faced with a massive withdrawal of the state departments they must be placed on his property, such as with public-private partnerships to finance the construction of colleges? We think not and we will return in a future post. To loosen the noose, the vote for 20 and 27 March will weigh.
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