I am sure that you are well aware that our Government taxes the crap out of us, okay where does the money go? Not a hell of a lot goes to benefit the people of this country, I can assure you.
Though France is not perfect, they have a great national respect for who they are and they stand up for it, and the French react quickly at the slightest move by their government, because the people of France own their government. They have better health care, they are healthier as a people less obesity etc. Their employee and unemployment benefits are awesome compared to ours and I think that they have a work week substantially less than ours, yet they are not lazy, but enjoy fine art and wine like we should. They eat better, their food is not polluted like ours especially in the country villages.
I went to the Grand Canyon and Sedona everyone there was foreign, I was like where are all the Americans?! How come they are not enjoying these places? cause their over worked underpaid and overtaxed.
I want a Euro rail put in this country with my tax dollars, I want Mexico to clean up their own country and stop running here, so I can go there and utilize my Spanish and not worry about my head being blown off, people don't act like that in Spain. I digress;)
The wine in France is some of the best in the world because it is against the law in most European countries to add poisoning preservatives, the government in France does not have an ATF!In this country all alcohol must be accounted for and warehoused, that is why the nasty head ache causing preservatives are added. Do you think the French would have ever stood for a prohibition, hell no. The French are hella more free than we are, not to mention they bucked the Iraq war from the get go, very smart and they kidnapped money grubbing CEOs which I thought was a great jest, noting that no harm came to them (the CEOS).
I will keep eating my french fries etc., and the French from the country side are some of the nicest people I have ever met. Even when my country was bad mouthing them, they were cordial and humorous to me during my visit and said nothing to me about the BS (freedom fries), they probably felt sorry for me because that tyrant raper of the constitution Bush was in the big seat during my visit to Europe. I could go on but I am sure I will be given a chance to defend my position again and a war of semantics will ensue;)