I hear you, and it's not my intention to imply that everything is hunky dory in the Land of the Free.
However, and how odd as it may sound, the actual state of affairs in the US is beyond the point, as far as Les Echos' special dossier on the... State of affairs in the US is concerned — and the same goes for the French press at large.
This kind of "coverage" is a constant, and these dramatic headlines make up the stock-in-trade of the French media, Left to Right - You'd regularly find the same "special dossier" published just a few years ago, when the US economy was thriving, and (case in point) the situation in France was all gloom and doom.
Read "Cowboy Capitalism" by (US based) German journalist Olaf Gersemann: as Milton Friedman put it "a devastating rejection of common European fallacies about the American economy". Gersemann addresses and puts to rest all the "myths" constantly ushered in the French (and West European) media and political sphere about the US: declining living standards, poverty on the rise, "MacJobs", three jobs needed to (merely) survive, no health care, financial (credit) crisis, etc, etc.
The aforementioned stock-in-trade is all there, and this book was first published circa 2004. I, personally, have been hearing the same nonsense for the last two decades at least.
When discussing such matters, the share of people who actually believe this is simply stunning. 9 out of 10 in my experience.
KL,
When are you just going to come to the U.S.? We're going to need all the good guys we can get.
That is my dearest wish, but believe it or not, it's far from easy. At least, when one sticks to the principle of doing it honorably and legally.
I suspect the bad guys have it easier — only one river to cross — unfortunately.
TooTall,
I hear you, and it's not my intention to imply that everything is hunky dory in the Land of the Free.
However, and how odd as it may sound, the actual state of affairs in the US is beyond the point, as far as Les Echos' special dossier on the... State of affairs in the US is concerned — and the same goes for the French press at large.
This kind of "coverage" is a constant, and these dramatic headlines make up the stock-in-trade of the French media, Left to Right - You'd regularly find the same "special dossier" published just a few years ago, when the US economy was thriving, and (case in point) the situation in France was all gloom and doom.
Read "Cowboy Capitalism" by (US based) German journalist Olaf Gersemann: as Milton Friedman put it "a devastating rejection of common European fallacies about the American economy". Gersemann addresses and puts to rest all the "myths" constantly ushered in the French (and West European) media and political sphere about the US: declining living standards, poverty on the rise, "MacJobs", three jobs needed to (merely) survive, no health care, financial (credit) crisis, etc, etc.
The aforementioned stock-in-trade is all there, and this book was first published circa 2004. I, personally, have been hearing the same nonsense for the last two decades at least.
When discussing such matters, the share of people who actually believe this is simply stunning. 9 out of 10 in my experience.
KL,
That is my dearest wish, but believe it or not, it's far from easy. At least, when one sticks to the principle of doing it honorably and legally.
I suspect the bad guys have it easier — only one river to cross — unfortunately.