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"That explains it, you are a 21st century slave. I am a LEGAL immigrant US citizen and would never work anywhere else for all the money in the world. My allegiance is to the USA and I would never live and work anywhere else no matter how much money they paid me. No wonder you have this view, you are not an AMERICAN in your thought process and are a corporate slave who feels entitled to a paycheque. Go back to France please."

I am French by birth and American by birth, because I was born in the United States.
I went to university in both countries, and have lived and worked in both countries.
And when I turned 18, I attended the AMERICAN Naval Academy, not the French Ecole Naval, and served for 19 years as a pilot in the US military, before becoming a "corporate slave".

I am not an "American" in my thought processes?
No, perhaps not. I think your economic organization is very cruel, I think that Americans are surprisingly docile when it comes to allowing capitalists to behave like noble lords of old, and I think that deference to money in America exceeds reasonableness. I think that the American system of public debt is a an UTTER Ponzi scheme and that the country at the city and state level are hurtling towards default and massive inflation because American government is corrupt and utterly irresponsible.

I think that personal freedom in America, outside of the economic realm, is wonderful, and comparable to France, and that the whole Western world has to stick together to fight real and deadly threats like the Soviet Union was, and like Communist China today potentially is, and Islamist terrorism as well.

So yes, I have always been a "slave". I was a "slave" in the harness of the US military for many, many years, and felt that the service was necessary and just in order to protect the whole Western World, of which the United States is the military lynchpin. And most certainly I do not have the capital to make myself secure and benefit from all of the wonderful advantages for rich people built into the American tax system, which privilege the wealthy over the worker.

I have the identical right to live in the USA that you do, and I have the identical right to live in Paris as Jacques Chirac.

If you have a problem with my mindset, and want to see it excluded from the mix in the USA, well, you may have immigrated to America and become a citizen, but you have obviously not internalized what freedom really means.

So, let me spell it out: I was, and still am, willing to put my balls on the line in a combat aircraft with a US Star, or the French Tricolor, on the fin because things like the freedom to do precisely what I am doing here: express a harshly judgmental and controversial opinion, and for my children to grow up being able to do so, is worth more than my own blood.
And to be free to practice religion or not to.
And to be free to have my own little house and not be molested in it...a right much more protected is "socialist" France than in the America of the Kelo Supreme Court, by the way.

But I was not up there to defend the privileges in the US tax code for wealthy people, or to protect corporatism. France, too, once had a bout of unbridled for-profit corporate organization, un-restricted by public political control. It was called "Vichy France", and the corporate leaders, Renault, Dassault, became famously and fabulously wealthy very productively and efficiently harnessing up their own countrymen in order to serve evil incarnate.
These same people and their kin are alive, and still possess the great fortunes and the reins of economic power. You think we are going to take the bit out of their mouth and just "trust them, because they know best" at running an economy? On what is THAT naive assumption based? History says that they will reduce us all to the status of Chinese slaves. They DID IT within living memory. Two's a charm? No thank you.

Political and personal liberty are worth fighting for in the whole West. They are worth being a real wage slave, earning very little, spending years of life on a ship at sea, flying missions in strange and unpleasant places. That is the price of freedom.

But the freedom I treasure does not include the deference to money that you think is part and parcel of the American Way. Now, it IS part of the American way. It's the part of the American way that I reject and that disgusts me. That is not what I was flying in the military to protect.

So, call me a socialist, or a communist, or a whatever-the-hell-you-like-ist. But "Go back to France?" No sir. I have bought my piece of soil here with sweat and blood. And I will live on it for as long as I please and say whatever I please, no matter that it irritates you as freshly minted American that someone should DARE question a fundamental tenent of the USA. Well, I DO question it. And if that's all America was, it wouldn't have been worth being harnessed up and fighting for. But that's not all America is. That's the boil on America's bum. I'm not going to pretend that I like the boil on the bum, and I don't have to. Because it's a free country.
And yes, this Frenchmen with the irritating attitudes helped to keep it free. Which means that, no, I am not going to shut up. THAT'S what being free really means.