Yup...let's do it like europe!
So what exactly is it about europe that we are supposed to be emulating???? The only european country that seems to have it's act together is Ireland.
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France wrestles with its own decline
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/...GuN_gQ1FoUewgF
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But while the face will be new, the problems he or she inherits are not, and have defied solutions before:
_The large national debt, proportionately almost the same as the United States', which will limit the new president's room to spend France back into economic and mental health.
_An economy that has stagnated at around 1.5 percent annual average growth since Chirac's 2002 re-election while Germany's is recovering and China's and Britain's have leapfrogged ahead.
_Unemployment that remains stubbornly above 8 percent and topping 20 percent among the under-25s. That age group led three weeks of riots in 2005 in depressed housing projects.
The riots confronted the French with a reality they had long chosen to overlook: of a vast, angry underclass consisting largely of Africans and Arabs distanced from ancestral family values but shut out of the French cultural and economic mainstream.
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