The right to extensive vacations, a maximum of hours worked a week, and having your needs met by the State are among many hallmarks of where the French are as far as work ethic is concerned. Hell, they're PROUD of this.

Most Americans can't understand this kind of thinking, never mind someone from someplace like Japan or other nations where industriousness is a virtue.

Their unemployment rates are about twice what they are in places like the U.S. But they honestly don't see this as a problem. Employment is just something you do, and it isn't that big a deal. The far end of this curve would be communist nations like the old U.S.S.R., where as Russians used to put it, "we pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us."

France and Germany are slowly and inexorably going broke.

Meanwhile, the Left continues to hold nations like France up on a pedestal, claiming that THIS is how a society ought to be run.

The "Polish Plumber" is what frightens the French.