La france ne va pas si mal, son modèle n'est pas si pourri que ça, et la situation anglo-saxone n'est pas forcément meilleure ni à suivre. On nous farcit la tête depuis des années à essayer de nous faire croire qu'on vit dans un pays de glandeurs ronchons, en plein déclin économique et social.... Et ça marche!!! Cf. L'élection de Sarkozy.... Un exemple: on nous rabâche que la France n'est pas productive. Elle détient pourtant selon le Financial Times le taux de productivité le plus haut d'Europe...
Ce qui me fait plaisir, c'est que je ne suis pas la seule à penser qu'on se fout de notre gueule... Voici un article australien (donc en anglais désolée...) qui exprime très bien ce point de vue. Je vous conseille vivement de le lire quand vous aurez une minute, car c'est vraiment intéressant:

http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/nicolas-sarkozy-3/2007/05/14/


Nicolas Sarkozy’s Futile Plan to Reinvent the French Economy


"And as to France’s economy, is there a single economist in England or America who doesn’t think it is hopeless? France is in decline, they all believe. Its economy is in perpetual crisis…its leaders are incompetent, spineless collectivists…and if something is not done soon, the whole place will collapse in a heap. And what do they think should be done? The French need to act more like Anglo-Saxons, of course!

What is amazing about this vanity is that most of the French think it is true too. That’s why Nicolas Sarkozy won the election. At every campaign stop, the “angry little man in a dark suit,” as the Independent tagged him, got up and told listeners what a disaster the Socialists had made of the country. He identified the economy as a key irritation, repeatedly complaining that the French aren’t allowed to work long enough or hard enough to compete with the rest of the world.

Since the Socialists imposed the 35 hour workweek, he noted, the average Frenchman labors only 600 hours per year. In England and America, the tillers of the soil, the weavers at their looms, and the City-bound money-shufflers put in a full 30% more hours. Our personal experience, after living and working among French and English for many years, is that these statistics are misleading. Both groups cheat. The Anglo-Saxons pretend to work hard; the French pretend not to.

Still, you have to admire the chutzpah of Sarkozy for pointing out that his country is a mess; his own party has been running the place for the last 12 years, with Sarkozy himself as one of Jacques Chirac’s principle lieutenants.

Let us look at more figures. Think France is unproductive? It has the highest productivity figures in Europe, according to the Financial Times - nearly 120% of the U.K. level, and going up. Think France is poor? Well, the French may work only 75% as hard as Englishmen, but they make 90% of Britain’s GDP per capita - about the same as Germany and Italy. And the British figures are greatly inflated by the extraordinarily high earnings of a very small group of people who work in the financial industry. Whether the average person in Britain lives as well as the average Frenchman, who knows? But when the Daily Mail posed the question, an astonishing one out of every four Englishmen said he’d like to immigrate to France!

Everyone wants to be as happy as Gott im Frankenreich, as the Germans used to say, before invading. Despite all the auto-critiques of France, it’s still a very nice place to live. Partly because the typical Frenchmen, while he is as distracted by politics as much as anyone, has the good sense to focus his keenest attention on his soup…his lilacs…and his cheese. And the typical French politician is shrewd enough not to take his politics too seriously, either."

Vive la France et notre modèle social! Nous devons continuer à le défendre ou nous le regretterons.....