Where do you get that French unemployment rate. This isn't a debate on Foxnews where you can make up statistics and nobody challenges you. As of July 2008 the rate was 7.6%.
Ray, please don't make things up.
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/flsjec.txt
France's poverty rate is also one of the lowest in the world at around 6%. US is around 12%.