a government ploy?

i might be wrong, but if i've understood the current French political situation correctly, it goes like this: the government, who wants to raise taxes despite promising not to (or rather, create a new 'social' tax, whatever that means), needs an excuse to make people think there is no other way. that's why they've spent the last 2 weeks telling the population that France is totally bankrupt. they've made quite a show of it, too. thankfully, some politicians have actually stood up and said that there was no way the country was that much worse off than it was just recently, and thus not bankrupt. and this is when we think: who elected those people? and why did they for one minute think that the politicians would keep their word? what politician does? and before you ask, i'm not entitled to vote, so no, it wasn't me!