Pity the French, but they deserve their miseries

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | September 21, 2003 | BRET STEPHENS

[solo gringo]

Good post and to the point.My brother lives in france and he said the drug stores are yelling about the old people that died are no longer useing drugs and the store owners are begging the gov-ment to buy the drugs that the dead people no longer need.

[cfrels]

TOUCHE'

[findingtruth]

Where were these people's children as they were suffocating in ovenlike apartments? They were on holiday. And what happened when they got the awful news? ''Informed of the death of relatives, some [vacationers] postponed funerals to avoid interrupting the Aug. 15 holiday weekend, and left the bodies in the refrigerated hall,'' went a report by John Tagliabue in the International Herald Tribune.

Actually, their behavior towards their old folks compares favorably with our behavior towards our young folks. At least those Frenchies, according the the report, didn't actively do in their parents. However on this side on the Atlantic, we murder about one-third of our children by abortion.

[Boiler Plate]

Good post and to the point.My brother lives in france and he said the drug stores are yelling about the old people that died are no longer useing drugs and the store owners are begging the gov-ment to buy the drugs that the dead people no longer need.

That is perverse. Can anybody be so narcissistic?

[shhrubbery!]

Other countries confronted by militant trade unions, for instance, have broken them. That's what Margaret Thatcher did in Britain. Other countries confronted by a broken welfare system have fixed it. That's what Bill Clinton did in the United States

Bill Clinton did not fix the broken welfare system.

Clinton vetoed welfare reform bills, what, three times? before finally signing one at the urging of Dickie Morris. And only because he was afraid that if he didn't, he'd lose in '96.

But understandably the writer of this otherwise great article wanted to keep his model simple, and thus oversimplified.