身为美国人，你是否正津津乐道于法国人发起的骚乱场面呢？请克制住幸灾乐祸的念头吧。其实我们和他们并没有太大区别。
Are you an American who’s enjoying the spectacle of the very Gallic rioting in France? Resist the temptation to gloat. We aren’t so different.
巴黎及其他城市街头发生的事件其实与财政政策密切相关。表面上看，法国各地正在爆发学生抗议活动（其中不少带有暴力性质），起因是教师短缺以及学校设施破旧不堪。但实际上，这只是左翼组织及工会等势力为争取日益稀缺的公共资源而挑起的系列民众骚动中的最新一例罢了。
What’s happening in the streets of Paris and other cities is about fiscal policy. Seriously. Superficially, the country is witnessing student protests (many of them violent) over teacher shortages and decrepit school buildings. But this is only the latest in a series of public distempers stirred up by organizations of the left such as unions to force an allocation of evaporating public resources toward their favored interests.