Nicolas Sarkozy’s decisive victory in France today came in response to his prescription for curing what ails France:

[T]hey had rallied round his cry to “liquidate the legacy of May 1968”, end the nanny state, loosen the grip of “political correctness”, lessen the power of unions and break the 35-hour week in the name of a nation that wanted to “work more to earn more”.

We need some of that kind of thinking around here.