Saturday, February 12, 2005
North Korea catching up in the arms race, but America is still far superior to France
When I first heard the big news about N. Korea's big bombs, I wanted to make a post, "So it appears we invaded the only member of the Axis of Evil which was not developing nuclear weapons," but went to find out how to say "Axis of Evil" in French and never got around to making the post.
But I'll now tell you a bit more about France and America.
- The French gave America Jaques Cousteau. Americans gave the French Jerry Lewis.
- The French are smelly artists in jaunty hats who said "whatever" and played accordions with their back turned as we jousted at windmills looking for nonexistent weapons factories so large we swore we could have seen them from space.
- In France, 4.31 infants die out of 1,000 live births. In America, 6.63 babies out of 1,000 will die in infancy. On average, people live 2 years longer in France than we do in the US. 79.44 years there verses 77.43 years here. These statistics come from our own CIA World Factbook.
- Sixteen percent of America's wages go to healthcare despite 15% of Americans going without access to health insurance each year. 100% of Frenchmen are fully covered despite a 35 hour work week and on average, much more vacation time.
- A few months ago, the French helped us out when we needed more flu vaccine which we couldn't make ourselves. Then when we got it, we don't even use most of it.
- The copper blue lady at Ellis Island National Park was a gift from the French people. Americans have recently attempted to boycott France by not purchasing FRENCH'S Mustard - which is manufactured in Rochester, NY.
- No major metropolitan area in the world is complete without an authentic French restaurant offering authentic French cuisine. Neither is it complete without somewhere you can get a Fillet-o-Fish.
- Good grief. Fillet-o-"Fish"?
// posted by Erik @ 2/12/2005 12:05:00 AM
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