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Yeah, I know the decade is far from over yet, but that bloke is among the front-runners for the title:The country was never so powerful and wealthy. Never before, this "live happily in France" feeling was so noticeable as it is at the dawn of this XXIst century, and that is also, Right and Left wide, an insolent defiance of the so called laws of economics laid down by the Thatcher and the Reagan, and fortunately never adopted here.If you please stop laughing for a second, I'll tell you that this is from Jean Marie Colombani, who incidentally and interestingly enough happens to be Le Monde's Editorial manager (You know, I *can* hear you laughing all the way from that red state of yours. Please stay focused.), writing in his November 2000 book "Les Infortunes de la République."
And since Jean Marie "El Mundo Loco" Colombani has a crunch on Le comique de répétition, and probably no sense of Pride versus Ridicule, that joke was reedited in paperback on January 2002. (told you that was a good one.)
Yep, he's talking about France, even on that bit about being more "powerful" and "wealthy" than ever in the French history of France, and also that part where the Economic Idiot goes "we ain't doing no Thatcherin' down here Mister, thank you very much".
Now don't get me wrong, when Jean-Marie "I ain't doin' no Prozac Mister" Colombani writes in 2000 that France has never been so wealthy, he's probably partially right (Last time we were so wealthy was after the US shoved Marshall plans up Marianne's ass. Took us about 30 years to spend all that wealth. "Powerful" is still a joke though), considering that we managed to grab a fair deal of the crumbs falling from the economic table of the UK/US, who sadly adopted the so called laws laid down by the Thatcher and the Reagan, and were therefore achieving full employment, workforce shortages and sustained growth, them damn fools.
Yes, at that time, we did manage to get a hike on the Anglo-Saxon ThatcheReagan Express, albeit with some backlog. And not without the Socialist friends of zany Jean-Marie making sure they'll take the lion's share of said crumbs away from us to invest them into strategic and high economic profile endeavors for the common good, such as an artificial beach in the center of Paris.
Just to show those filty Reaganotrons and Thatcheristas how we can "live happily in France" without them.
Ah! We sure don't care if the French are now more or less as wealthy as the USA's poorest state residents (Mississippi if I'm not mistaken, but feel free to correct me). Who needs money when
However, for Jean Marie "I'm so Happy" Colombani to actually (at least) authorize the reediting of something containing that kind of assertion in 2002, it takes either a badly twisted sense of humor or a severe clinical
Which, come to think of it, casts an interesting light on Le Monde's editorial line.
Hell, these people may not be outrageously biased after all.
Just "psychologically
Thanks to E.B. for the Colombani Comedy quote.
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