Few Americans fit the French's stereotype of "ugly Americans" and few Frenchmen fit the Americans' stereotype of "lazy Frenchmen." Christine Lagarde, France's finance minister, neither fits nor likes the national stereotype. "France is a country that thinks," she explained to the National Assembly. "There is hardly an ideology that we haven't turned into a theory. We have in our libraries enough to talk about for centuries to come. This is why I would like to tell you: Enough thinking, already. Roll up your sleeves." Work smarter, not harder is usually good advice. But for the chronically unemployed, the dole-takers, and the grad students for life that seem to disproportionately burden the French economy, the simple advice of work will do.

I've never heard France so beautifully described. I'm packin' my bags.

"Today I did nothing, and it was everything that I dreamed it could be."

i think i love this woman.

WORK!!!!!!

BONJOURRRRRRRRRR ya cheese-eatin surrender monekys!

911 wa an inside job. Please gather your energies in this direction.

For Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX9gdRST6zM

So, what if it was? What are you going to do about it Messenger?