A Frenchman’s Warning to America About Voting Democrat

It sounds like a great idea, “tax the rich and use their money to give all of us free healthcare, education, food, clothing and housing.  All those things are human rights!”

But in reality nothing is free.  You have to rob Peter to pay Paul.  And in a free nation all the Peter’s realize it’s time to leave for a better nation.  Witness France today.  And if America doesn’t change course we will be there real soon.

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“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” So noted famed English author George Bernard Shaw, lamenting the British political system in 1944. And now a Frenchman, lamenting the French political system today, has a warning for Americans.

Don’t be Paul.

Paul believes promises. He gets pain — and maybe even poverty.

Issuing this message was Brivael Le Pogam, “co-founder and self-proclaimed ‘techno-emperor’ of the French AI company Argil,” to quote Fox News. His nation has figured prominently in the media lately, being wracked by riots from Paris to Pau. But on Le Pogam’s mind recently was something else: Our nation — and our upcoming election.

As the tech entrepreneur wrote on X last Tuesday in a post that went viral:

I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you.

I come from your future.

In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream.

Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them.

The promise was protection. The result is stagnation.

The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe.

What’s untrue in the above: Many Frenchmen did vote for the decline — they just didn’t want it. There’s a difference. (Translation: The electorate often doesn’t know what it’s voting for.)

Le Pogam then concludes:

I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has.

Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France?

Trust me. You don’t want to be France.

 https://thenewamerican.com/world-news/i-come-from-your-future-a-frenchmans-warning-for-american-midterms/