On this Friday's edition of 100% Belge on LN24, Georges-Louis Bouchez reiterated a clear stance: no magic money, affordable and predictable energy, respect for those who work and already pay too much, and an end to the green and socialist gimmicks that wreck the economy without helping the middle class.
The MR President recalled a reality that the left systematically denies: you cannot transform an entire production system in ten years. Many businesses still need gas and oil to operate, and it will take at least 30 years to transform these processes without wrecking the economy. Until then, the MR wants a serious energy strategy: securing supply, defending our sovereignty and obtaining fossil fuels at a sustainable price, rather than disconnected green slogans.
Faced with rising prices, Georges-Louis Bouchez debunked the false good ideas: imposing more remote working or pretending people will be saved by a viral video or a gimmick measure. The MR rejects a society in which people are confined at home in the name of the climate or petrol prices. Work means a team, human contact, life within a community.
The reverse ratchet mechanism: a concrete response
Rather than magic money, the MR is proposing a concrete tool: the automatic reverse ratchet mechanism. The aim: to cushion shocks without further burdening public finances and without pretending everything is free.
Finally, Georges-Louis Bouchez repeated it: what the consumer does not pay, the taxpayer always does, often the same person. The left keeps promising cheques and price caps, but behind them lie taxes, higher charges and investors leaving Belgium. For the MR, we must respect those who work, take entrepreneurial risks and already pay a great deal: the State's money is the citizens' money, not a bottomless pit.