[forgottenpaswrd]

It talks about France. France is a machine of expending money right now, better said, of wasting money.

I am living in France this Summer, a very rich and beautiful country with a hole in the pocket. French people love to life well, and someone else to pay the bills, the Germans, the rich, whoever but not them.

Mr Hollande only want to do one thing, to raise taxes. But there is never enough money when you don't expend wisely.

[flyinRyan]

The problem is that Hollande is very left wing, yet France already had one of the best income equality ratios in the western world.

It might have been better if France got someone very conservative like Obama and the US got someone from the true left like Hollande (though he wouldn't get a single thing done in the US, it would be fun to watch people like Rush Limbaugh literally die on air).

[Gmo]

What a full load of BS.

[camus]

You should go back to where ever you come from or wherever it is better for you to live.

Sarkozy ruined France so yes now everbody needs to pay for it.

And the problem is not taxes,i'm happy to pay taxes. The problem is people like French liberals ( liberals are "right-wing" in France ) that gives hand outs to their friends or vote laws without financing their them , and then all they have left is blaming the poor,the homeless,the public workers,the artists or the muslims for France demise...

> French people love to life well, and someone else to pay the bills,

Whatever. Or maybe you prefer US way of life, where it is me/myself/I and there is next to 0 solidarity.

[patrickaljord]

Sarkozy is not libertarian at all if that's what you mean by "libéral". He's just as socialist as the left when it comes to the economy. To give you an idea, Sarkozy created more than 50 taxes during his mandate [1] and didn't cut on spending while creating more social aid programs (RSA). Only in France would he be considered a libertarian or "néo-libéral" as they say just because he limited the maximum amount of tax one could pay to 50% [2]. A 50% tax makes you a libertarian, Ayn Rand disciple in France, isn't that insanity? You still have to work until the 28th of July for the State in France.

1: http://www.contrepoints.org/2012/03/07/72137-lahurissante-ac...

2: http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com//file/318975.pdf

[digitalengineer]

Only France could make Brussel look like Galt's Gulch to the people who have a lot of money.

http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/1876/french-elite...

[paulhauggis]

I know people that have this attitude in the US. TONS of tax dollars are wasted on government-funded programs that just don't work.

"Whatever. Or maybe you prefer US way of life, where it is me/myself/I and there is next to 0 solidarity."

I would rather live in a country like this than one that takes upwards of 70% of my money and when I ask for some accountability, I get people telling me to leave.

[adventured]

If by solidarity you mean the state slavery of collectivism, then you're absolutely right, Americans are often very individualistic.

If you by solidarity you mean there's no sense of nation, then you're just making it all up as you go along.

However, trying to pigeonhole the most diverse country in world history on such a simplistic basis, is impossible. Only someone that has never spent much time in the countless cultures of America, would make such a statement.

[camus]

I spend a few years in USA. Yes USA is quite diverse , from Maine to California , but that was not my point ( i studied in CS Maine and in Massachusets ).