"TXZZ" <superoutland@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> Delila wrote:
>> "TXZZ" <superoutland@aol.com> wrote in message
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>> > and if so, then why do americans hate french so much?
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>> Maybe that's why. What American can afford the luxury to regularly take
>> two-hour leisurly lunches that include red wine?
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>> D.
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> How does the french economy work with such laziness?
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Does it work? ..or is it merely an illusion?

> I guess almost as mysterious as how the american economy works with
> such nutcase forms of capitalism
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Still the world's #1 economy. Japan is a very distant second.