I would make this comment....for what it takes 100 French men to accomplish...the same could be done with sixty Japanese men.
Remember when Morry Taylor ran for President in 1996?
On a bad day, an American woman is far more beautiful than a French woman on a good day.
The whole mystique of French romance and “amour” has been overdone for decades.
Industry minister Arnaud Montebourg hit back in a written response in which he told Mr Taylor his comments were “extremist and insulting” and displayed “a perfect ignorance of what our country is about”.
We notice that the industry minister avoided addressing the charge that the country's "workers" put in three hours a day with the rest spent eating and talking. Perhaps it is true. Perhaps it is partially true and a goal of the unions.
We would like to hear more about the validity of that charge, instead of being told comments are extremist and insulting. To what extent are Taylor's comments true, and what does the French minister plan to do about it? We know that the French are practicing "from each according to his ability" and "to each according to his need." How does that socialist philosophy address the low productivity?
So ... a businessman gets into a slightly robust exchange of opinions, and he is immediately threatened by a government official with regulatory harassment.
This is the point at which a competent U.S. government would fire off a letter of its own saying that discriminatory treatment of U.S. exports will not be tolerated, and that we will redouble our scrutiny of French practices in this area and retaliate against French exports to the U.S. if discriminatory treatment is found.
That is what a competent U.S. government would do if it is committed to increasing U.S. exports, which the Obama administration claims as a goal. Waiting.
The french sauces were used to cover meat so spoiled that even the dogs wouldn't eat it.
I've been to france and we should have let the krauts keep it, they are the most arrogant, condescending, elite dweebs on the planet and they have no reason to be.
Let them eat cow patties with fromage.
Funny story: I was sent to a French company near Orleans once to watch the test-firing of an armored vehicle mounted mortar. I arrived in the morning, watched a presentation by company marketing folks and then went to a lunch in the company cafeteria. Huge, excellent lunch - with wine - which was exactly the same as all of the workers for that company. The lunch hour and a half was finally finished and we went to the firing range to watch the demonstration. The armored vehicle’s driver didn’t show up to move it to the firing point - and he was the only one permitted by the union to drive it - and we waited and waited. Finally, he was driven up to the vehicle and he was very clearly falling-down drunk! They poured him into the vehicle and he lurched and swerved to the firing point and then promptly passed out. The rest of the demonstration went fine but the French were offended by our laughing...
Back in the 90’s I was seeing an attractive young French woman from Cannes before I eventually met my wife. During that time I was doing business with a Chinese guy in California and he once told me “French girlfriend, Chinese wife”.
And 12 years and 2 children later I can say it was the best advice I ever took from someone.
The fist point is debatable, the second point is not, and the third point is a given.