Physician, heal thyself. Both Germany and France are deep in debt and disregard the EU's worthless guidelines on deficit spending. So why are they lecturing us, when we fight the war in Iraq and they sit back and carp? They don't like it that our dollar is making it tough to sell their stuff to us. It also might help if they were a little less anti-American so that thousands of US consumers weren't boycotting their products.
And the Germans have the neck to criticise Ireland for having a boom economy, while their own is in the gutter.
You are right. Physician heal thyself.