My Garden

Rusty digs himself into a hole, which is about where we are in Europe, following this week's elections in the UK, France and Greece. Germany will be 2013.

Me: "France has a new President."
Madeleine: "Who's that?"
Me: "Francois Hollande.  He wants to take money from the rich and give it the poor."
Madeleine: "That's nice."
Me: "Do you think it's a good thing?"
Madeleine: "I guess so."
Me: "What if the rich all leave France? Is that good?"
Madeleine: "No."
Me: "What if they no longer want to work since their taxes are so high?"
Madeleine:
Me: "So it's not such a simple question."
Madeleine: "Yeah. I give it 50 50."
Me:  "50 50 ?"
Madeleine: "Some of it is good, some is bad."
Me: "Seems about right to me."