Here is a link to a column from a year ago in The Observer which should shed some light on the health of the American economy and should warn anybody in France off of Sarko if they dont want to be avbused like many Americans. The most interesting statistic I have heard recently is the top 300,000 Americans earn more income than the bottom 150,000,000 Americans. Mindboggling and this is what Sarko wants to bring to France.The link to the column is:
 http://observer.guardian.co.uk/columnists/story/0,,1792399,00.html