"We have put a lot of money into the suburbs over the past 20 years," Breton was quoted as saying by The Financial Times. "But obviously it wasn't enough. We need to work on how to create more jobs and growth in those areas." Once again, the classic liberal response is to throw more money at the problem. Their cluelessness is astounding. And you know that there won't be any relaxing of the bureaucratic red tape that stifles almost all incentives to start up new businesses. At least every new business that isn't started up is a business that won't be torched during the next riot.
Interestingly, the way to create growth in any area is to reduce regulation and taxes, something a socialism will not do. In that parallel universe, what has not worked in the past will be tried again and again with the hope that it will have different results than the identical thing that did not work in the past.
The Pravda MSM decrying our 3.4% growth rate heralds the French recovery to .3% as a success. Crazy stuff.