Posted on 04/03/2006 7:39:33 AM PDT by Neville72
I wonder if the STUPID French government is rethinking the "merits" of Socialism??? (chuckle)
Openly embrace sloth. I like that. Sounds like our governments.
The one that died at Verdun and the Somme.
The French model really seems to incense Anglo-Saxons.
France will keep her model, because her people want it.
America will keep her model.
And over time we will see the differences.
While loitering is a simple misdemeanor, loitering with existential intent is felonious. And possession of angst with intent to distribute is a capital offense.
well... for starters... Napoleon was a Corsican, and most Corsicans do not consider themselves to be French!
That sounds worse than 'Mopery with intent to creep'.
The solution for these people is to just go on welfare until they're 26. Man, how hard is it to think of that?
Incense? Not really. It amuses us that, even though contadicted by reams of historical evidence, the French think they can still make IT work. France will keep her model, because her people want it.
And we'll continue to watch France commit slow motion suicide
You think you are seeing France commit suicide.
The French think the Americans are in a frenzied debt-driven bubble that will burst and spread around a lot of misery.
France as a whole does not want to embrace that model, and won't. The lack of leverage means that French business and industry grows at a slower rate on the upside. It also means that it does not fall nearly as far on the downside.
Peugeot, Citroen, Renault are not exciting industries rolling up the massive profits like Ford and GM once were. On the other hand, they have not posted the knee-buckling losses or careened towards bankruptcy either. They are boring, profitable industries. A comparison between GM and Peugeot, or between United Airlines and Air France, or between Alcatel and Lucent, gives a good idea of the difference between the French and the American model. The French would not care to swap in any of those sectors.
All of the companies you mention have been kept alive by Govt funding. To say that the French economic model creates more prosperity than the U.S free enterprise system is ludicrous. France is a has been dying cultur and country with a bleak future ahead. You are obviously a socialist to make the inane comment you did, all the economic indicators point against a socialist economy long term, the evidnce against socialism is irrefutable.
"incense "???
Do you really think we get angry about seeing France go down the tubes? Try "bewilder". France was once a great nation at the forefront of western civilization, soon to become an islamic colony. No self-respecting sassonax would waste time getting upset about it.
A little AllBran every morning should help with that REGULARIZATION issue.
"All of the companies you mention have been kept alive by Govt funding. To say that the French economic model creates more prosperity than the U.S free enterprise system is ludicrous. France is a has been dying cultur and country with a bleak future ahead. You are obviously a socialist to make the inane comment you did, all the economic indicators point against a socialist economy long term, the evidnce against socialism is irrefutable."
Let's bookmark this and save it, and press it in a scrapbook, and then return to it five years hence, and ten, and fifteen, and twenty, and thirty, and fifty.
France isn't going to adopt the American model.
The Americans are confident in their own model.
So the two systems will co-exist and compete, side by side,
and at each step along the way, we will be able to make comparisons between the two.
Although I suppose that in 50 years in American perhaps the comparisons will need to be made en Espagnol, because the US government, driven by business interests who want cheap labor, relentlessly ignores some 75% of the American people's opinion about how the country should be governed. With the current labor law protests in France, and the impending government cave-in to the protestors, clearly no French government can govern against the will of 75% of the people the way that an American government can.
You have already written the obituary for France, so we will save the obituary, and we will keep dusting it off as the time progresses.
Precisely.
In Napoleon's day, it was practically sinful behavior to speak French on his native island.
The French were as incompetent then as they are today.
Their military success was brought about by a FOREIGNER, not one of their own.
Demographics indicate that the model of future France will lie in the hands of those who rioted a few months ago, not the spoiled university students who are demanding sinecures today. The islamic model is quite different than the gallic.
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