Dash of Calabash

Hopefully this one will be less bloody. According to BBC News, French president Nicolas Sarkozy “has announced more than 22,000 job cuts in the civil service in order to reform the country’s bulging public sector. He said thousands of employees retiring next year would not be replaced….The move comes a day after Mr Sarkozy outlined plans to overhaul the pension benefits of 500,000 mainly public sector workers.”

Sarkozy was brutally frank (Franc?) about what he was trying to do:

“I want a public service that is smaller, better paid and with better career prospects… What I am proposing is a cultural revolution, a revolution for changing the way we think, for changing behaviour.”

Read more here.

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