街道干净如镜，过度挥霍，法国迅速进入悲惨世界
EVERYONE IN EUROPE IS IN AGONY IN THE MIDSTA OF HOPELESSNESS OVER EUROPE'S ECONOMY.
Everyone in Europe is feeling the economic pain. So why do opinion polls show that the French are particularly gloomy, compared with other Europeans? For The Editors, a programme which sets out to ask challenging questions, I decided to find out.
In fact, the real pain has scarcely begun in France, though like a patient going in for surgery everyone is wincing in anticipation.
Is the French gloom simply caused by the news headlines?
Is it the cumulative psychological result of an apparently weak government, an awful spring, rising prices, and a fear that things cannot remain the same?
Or does it go deeper, much deeper?
You might become a Francophile in the 1960s. It came of watching Godard and Truffaut films, Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Paul Belmondo, and admiring the language and the way of life.
In 2000 if you bought a flat in Paris, near the Eiffel Tower, and my family and I spend a few days here every six weeks or so.
You would have never seen French friends and neighbours so depressed.
The city remains as delightful as ever.
The restaurants are just as good, and if they are more expensive that simply makes it easier to get tables.
The health service is probably the finest in the world. Public transport is excellent, though taxi drivers are a miserable lot.
Everyone knows that savage cuts are on their way.
After the Socialist Francois Mitterrand's famous victory in 1981, at a time when Britain under Margaret Thatcher was cutting back fiercely on government expenditure, the French instinct was always to spend more.
Hospitals, transport, culture - money was lavished and the results were sensational.
Pensions and state benefits were among the best in Europe. The streets were beautifully clean.
This pain is very severe and long lasting. There is no relief from any quarter.
France is the worst of all. Hollande is performing worse than Sarkozy who is a famous useless bum.
French things not worth $10 are sold at $50. So nobody wants to buy them even though Hollande's girl friend uses them.
Things in France can't remain the same but go from bad to rotten.
Nobody has money to spend now. Visitors are flooding to China, S Korea, Vietnam and Indonesia.
Poor Britain survives by selling away this and that building, factory to China, leaving some old duchess unsold. It is probably because Britain spent too much money listening to the Russians and the Middle East Muslims ooooo's and aaaah's in the middle of the night.
So France is in deep agony. Britain is sorrow filled. Spain, Greece and Italy are allsuicidal. 老于你怎么看法国这个问题？ 老于你怎么看法国这个问题？
hls812 发表于 2013-6-26 05:57 http://bbs.51.ca/images/common/back.gif
英语是老于的第二语言 看不懂怎么办，，，
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