Cuviller – A True Socialist
I have to give it to France’s new Fisheries Minister he sticks by his party’s colours.
Tweeting A Bankrupt Subsidy Ideology
A few days ago he tweeted he wants the EU to now cough up money to pay for France’s fleet. Please see below.
I presume he wants taxpayers’ from outside France to pay for his fleet.
That a lot of France and fellow travelers, like Spain, had their fleet built with taxpayers money, modernized by taxpayers money, often to the sums of tens of millions of euros – and would not have been built without hard working families money – seems to have escaped him. Or, perhaps as a politician from a deprived port, the move makes a lot of sense.
Why Can’t France Pay
He knows that his or the other 7 countries do not have the money to pay for these hair brained schemes. Their current upcoming or current state of bankruptcy of national finances and their economies limit even powerful fishing interests ability to grab hard working families money. They can’t grab it because the money does not exist.
But, there is a pool of cash available from some countries – the same set of prudent, future orientated nations – and find it hard to justify to themselves why they should pay the way for others who have been fickle and reckless in the past.
What’s Your Money Going to Be Spent On
Let’s be clear. We are not talking about modernization to help the industry to make the transformation to economic and ecological viability. No, we are talking about paying for new engines and sonar equipment to help fishermen stay out at sea longer and target the remaining fish even more precisely.
Freedom Ensnared
Why these investment in their own boats can not be made by fishermen themselves is beyond me. As a fishermen mentioned to me once during a discussion with regulators ‘it is like a group of freedom loving individuals, fishermen, have been ensnarhsed by the lure of cheap money from the government. But, when you become dependent on a government check to live at the end of the month, you have lost your freedom’.
I can only hope that there are a majority of modern fisheries ministers ready to take a stand.
Frédéric Cuvillier À l initiative de la France 8 pays demandent à @MariaDamanakiEUde réintroduire les aides à la modernisation de la flotte de pêche.