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To: tejek who wrote (205239)	10/5/2004 4:04:46 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 1574006

You have cited bright stories within each country. Germany has lead the world in engineering in the past fifty years or more. Japan figured that out, and has invested heavily. Taiwan has excellent engineering, and China has been luring their engineers, as well as investing in their own. China leads the world on stem cell research investment. China is the economy that will make the US a second class economy. France will always have terroir. Every time the government tries to reduce the agricultural welfare, the farms drive their tractor to Paris and stop traffic for days. Both countries have too short of work weeks, and too much structural benefits. It has become so bad in France they use it to mask the high unemployment. They may have spent freely on government transportation programs. This does not make them a great place. It makes both an expensive place to live. In your flame you ignored this statement from my postDemographically, Europe should be doing well. Their economy may stay strong longer than the US economy.