Gadling

like their culture, it is rusting and not worth saving. if you knew your history as to why the tower was built to begin with, you'd let it die a graceful death.

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if u think the french government is retarded enough to let wat most of the world thinks of when they hear the words "Paris, France" then u need a huge reality check. Plus if they're willing to spend 267 million on it, they must be making a lot more off it. The tower stays. Plus, it's nice to look at.

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God why waste the cash the damn thing is freaking ugly as all sin. I've climbed the thing not impressed.
But then again it's the French the folks who have no clue what a good shower and deoroderent is. The same folks that designed the butt ugly Le Car and the "Classic" Renault 5 Escargo. you know the funky snail shaped car that most folks know from "The Spy who loved me.? chase scene after the hot chick shoots the bad guy at the pool with a cross bow.

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Good move on the part of the French to rework the signature landmark of France. I visited Paris about 7-8 times but never scaled the tower. May be in 10 years, I will the work is completed.

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Saw the Tower in'89...the 100 Year Anniversary. It was crowded!!! But we loved it. Where can I make a donation? Viva La France!!

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Screw the French. How many wars do we have to bail them out of anyway.

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"Jim" -- Given the numerous, more recent generations of French who have apparently forgotten all about WWI, WWII, and the mess French missionaries and the French Government left for an overly zealous (in hindsight) America to (unsuccessfully) clean-up in Viet Nam, I remind you that it was the French who aided America in her defeat of Britain in order to gain Independence in the first place! The ancestors of today's French people deserve, at least, that recognition. It's unfortunate that their modern day extreme liberalism/socialism has widened the gap with America and her historic ideology.

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Question-
Who gave us the Statue of Liberty?
Answer-
France

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Are people here drunk? I can't believe I'm still reading the stupid ignorant blatherings of the crowd who can only recite the same old dumb line about the French capitulating in WWII and how we came to the rescue. Pointless, and ignorant. Good ol' "Jim" says, "how many wars do we have to bail them out of, anyway?" How long do idiots like him think you can use foolish lines like that? Does he actually think he's being clever? Insightful? Like hell. Just a moron. And the idea that France is a "socialist" country? Also idiotic. It's a capitalist economy. People are making money. They need cheap labor, same as us. They get immigrants who KNOW there's money to be made, same as us. All this BS about it being socialist is also a load of worthless rot that boneheads spew just so they can have some like-minded imbecile say "I hear that, buddeh" and high-five them.

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Americans forget that without the French, we would still be under BRITISH rule, since they stopped the British from escaping after burning Washington, and sunk their ships!

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Americans forget that without the French, we would still be under BRITISH rule, since they stopped the British from escaping after burning Washington, and sunk their ships!

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Viva Le France! From where I'm sitting the tower is an awesome sight to see, just like our own Empire State Building. Hell, it's only money, well spent.

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ANYBODY REMEMBER WHAT THOSE FRENCH A-HOLES DID TO THEIR DISNEYLAND F/N LOSERS, WONT STAND BEHIND US WHEN WE NEED THEM BUT IT'S OK FOR US TO BAIL THEIR AZZES OUT OF ANY WAR THEY GET INTO WW1 WW2 VEITNAM THEIR REVOLUTION AHH F**K THEM SOMEONE SHOULD TAKE A TORCH TO 1 OF THE LEGS AND WATCH THAT SCRAP IRON FALL, LIKE OUR TWIN TOWERS OF COURSE I DONT WANT ANYBODY HURT LOL

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