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[New Majority] Weil’s own country, France had been the last major European country to seek to achieve a “great society” by means of large increases in spending on social entitlement programs: with Mitterrand’s famed 1983 U-turn, that door closed as well as a result of inexorable economic constraints. By 1984, Mitterrand had stated publicly that “You can’t continue to crush with taxes and fees all those people who create wealth in France.” Speaking about his fellow countrymen, Mitterrand said that “The French are beginning to understand that it’s enterprise that creates wealth, that it’s enterprise that creates jobs, and that it’s enterprise that determines our standard of living and our place in the world.” In December of 1984, the Socialist-oriented French economist Laurent Joffrin told the New York Times correspondent John Vinocur that “What was socialist didn’t work, and what worked wasn’t socialist.”

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