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Hi all,

as a Frenchman - therefore European - I can say that what Magne says here is 100% true.
Right now, most European countries couldn't be much farther away from what the Americans call 'socialism'. What Obama tries to do in the U.S. - eg. State Healthcare System - lots of European countries did a long time ago. And what we're currently seeing is a progressive dismantlement of this system. Not because it has threatened our liberties. But because it's a very expensive system and we can't afford to keep it any more.
It's the same thing for most European songwriters. We used to be very much and well protected, and we have kept much of this system to this day. So don't fear to be ripped off in France or in Belgium, these are civilized countries, lol. But it's also true we are currently shown the Anglo-Saxon model as the perfect way to deal with the affairs now, in which it appears we'll be more and more left to our own devices, for good and bad - no one to tell us what to do, right, but no one to help us out of unexpected misery either. When I see what's currently happening to glynda - who's not an illegal, unemployed or delinquant migrant, but a pure hardworking Christian Texas woman - I ask myself some questions about the future. I won't talk American politics here, I think it'd be foolish and disrespectful, mostly because I'm not an American citizen. But I'd say this, just talking for me: I'd rather be provided a medical doctor I didn't choose than have no doctor at all because I can't afford one, even though I work 60 hours a week and have some education.

Going back to music: songwriters are well protected in Europe, at least as well as in the U.S. I have no doubt about that.

Take care,
Yann

PS: I wouldn't call anyone 'crazy', it's just that it's incredibly difficult to know what's 'really' going on in a country when you don't live there. First - obvious reason - because you don't have full access to the right information; and secondly because the media can be incredibly dishonest when they say they'll 'tell' you. I'm currently hearing things about America on French TV you wouldn't believe. How there is NOT ONE white American soldier in Afghanistan right now, just poor Blacks and Mexicans who accepted to go there because they were promised a Green Card after the War. Now, be honest and tell me, can I rightly perceive America from my French TV and newspapers?