The opposition Socialist-Communist Left coalition, led by the fiercely bland, Lionel Jospin, and his sidekick, the rather creepy Communist Party boss, Robert Hue, offer even less. Private industry, not government, creates jobs. He vows to again open the gates to immigration. France, with 58 million people, is already jammed with 10 million immigrants and their children, mainly Arab and black African. But immigrants vote Left.
Government is France's largest employer.
Asking it to cut taxes and deficits is like asking a would-be dieter to cut of his leg or arms. LePen, whom I have interviewed at length, claims Jews, Muslims and blacks are ruining France. He shouts what many French only whisper. Across Europe, youth with no work and no future are also turning to far-right demagogues. Economically strong, free-market nations don't have this problem.