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The French finance minister urges her countrymen to retire the national pastime of intellectualism in honor of becoming a society that works harder to earn more. Though her words, �Enough thinking, already. Roll up your sleeves,� do not go unchallenged.

While I agree that the French system is flawed, in placing blame on intellectuals rather than targeting the parasitic party, the newly elected administration is burning bridges with the likes of those that have given France her face.

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This is really kind of ironic. I think one of America's problems is that we have a "Do it and ask questions later" attitude when it comes to politics. Now France wants to mimic that? I suppose that there is a happy medium between the two extremes, but I hope that France does not lose its intellectualism. In fact, I wish America would increase it!!