A new batch of French leaders are afraid that there's too much thinking going on in the country.

In proposing a tax-cut law last week, Finance Minister Christine Lagarde bluntly advised the French people to abandon their “old national habit.”

“France is a country that thinks,” she told the National Assembly. “There is hardly an ideology that we haven’t turned into a theory. We have in our libraries enough to talk about for centuries to come. This is why I would like to tell you: Enough thinking, already. Roll up your sleeves.”

The intellectual class doesn't agree, of course, but it's certainly a healthy debate.

And someone should tell Sarkozy that if he wants to look like an American jogger he should lose the collared shirt.