Listen, I have heard enough from Paris about "rural revitalization" and "small business support." They pass laws that sound good on the radio while sitting in offices that cost more per month than my annual profit. The real problem is not complicated — when they raised the charges on fuel and electricity without asking anyone outside the Périphérique, they decided for us that the small town was finished. I do not need another subsidy program with forms in three colors; I need my customers to still have money in their pockets after they fill their tank. The supermarket twenty kilometers away does not care about my croissants or my rent. It just waits. So stop telling me the economy is strong — tell me why the post office in the next village closed, why the train comes once a day now instead of four times, why the pharmacy is gone. Fix that, and you fix the politics. Everything else is noise from people who do not have flour under their fingernails.
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