French Economic Vitality is Inverse to French Verbosity

If you want to know why the French economy is a hobbling, crippled mess and why promising young French men and women have to flee to the US, England or elsewhere to make best use of their talents, look no further than this mind-numbing factoid. What is it with French ponderous verbosity? First that monster of a constitution for the EU and now this. The French need the equivalent of my seventh grade English teacher, who would cut down on classroom verbosity with an admonishing "fifty words or less" when calling on you, governing their national affairs.