[2banana]

"French are working less than others, 1,561 hours a year, or 20 percent less than Americans," Sylvain Charat, director of Policy Studies for the French think tank Eurolibnetwork pointed out in a Tech Central Station

article last September. "Furthermore not enough French are at work: 61 percent compared to 72 percent in the United States. And finally French work costs are 20 percent higher than the European Union average before enlargement, and 40 percent higher than the United States."

What the French do have is high standards for filing lawsuits so that their economy is not dragged down by an out of control legal system. One of the huge weights holding the American economy back...

[BJClinton]

Amen to that! The problem is, of course, that one of our two political parties is entirely beholden to lawyers and unions.