"Thank you. Sometimes you need to put arrogant and deluded people in the place where they belong."
"I have seen the many poor places of Paris, Marseille, and Leon and it is very ugly. People live in absolute poverty."
As ugly as the blighted parts of Washington DC, or Detroit, or the "Projects" of Chicago, or of the Bronx of New York, or of the Southern Central part of Los Angeles, where there are periodic bloody riots?
No. Not that ugly.
Or that dangerous.
Murders in United States last year:
Murders in France last year:
Heat waves.
Yes many people died in a heat wave in France.
But heat waves kill many people in the US each year also, 1000 per year:
"The heat wave in July 1995 in Chicago was one of the worst weather-related disasters in Illinois history with approximately 525 deaths over a 5-day period. As noted by Changnon et al. (1996), "The loss of human life in hot spells in summer exceeds that caused by all other weather events in the United States combined, including lightning, rainstorms/floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes." Weather hazards such as tornadoes, floods, lightning, and winter storms each result in about 100 deaths per year on average, while heat waves result in about 1000 deaths per year on average."
France is farther north than the US and has a cooler climate. It does not get very hot in France usually, and most people do not have air conditioning. Without that, when a truly brutal heat wave came, there was not the option for people to turn on the air conditioning. The same heat wave killed many in Britain and other European countries, and for the same reason.
But all of that is beside the point. You clearly have a great animus for France and French people, which is of course your right. As I read up the thread I do not discern any arrogance on the part of anyone but certain Americans. It is not an endearing quality.
Of course I have a lot of problems with France and the French people as so many Americans do. The reason is that you are an "ungrateful", "arrogant", and "deluded" people who try to stab us in the back in every step we take in the world affairs. As I said your delusion of being a super power is known to everyone, and the whole world realize that you are far, far, far away from being a super power on economic, military, political, technological, or cultural levels. The whole concept of EU in the mind of the French is to create a union (it will fail in 10 years) off many countries to challenge the United States economically, politically, culturally, and militarily. The French in their deluded minds believe that they are the leaders of the EU and everyone will bow to them. Well no one in this Europe want a French politician to be their leader. In the last few years you were just lucky to have a socialist idiot in Germany who agreed to be partner with Chirac in opposing the US and allow the France idiot President to lead Germany in a suicidal economic path and an idiotic foreign policiy. Well Shroder the imbecile will be gone next year and you will get a real German leader who look after German interests not the French ones, and this whole unnatural socialist Franco-German love affair will collapse