US dollar keeps sinking endlessly--worth the same as the Canadian dollar now

John Kulp wrote:

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:36:06 +1000, Alan S wrote:

Nah, he's just not important enough in history's pages to be
responsible for everything that goes wrong. In 100 years
they'll still read history about other Georges, like
Washington or even mad King George, but they will have
totally forgotten Dubya.


It's going to be awfully hard to forget the damage this guy has done.

Given his apparent espousal of "fundamentalist"
Christianity, I begin to seriously wonder whether he is not
deliberately trying to hasten the "Armageddon" the loonier
fringe of them claims is nearly upon us! (He doesn't
believe in "global warming" so opposes any effective
attempts to combat it, he seems to be deliberately trying to
bring on a nuclear holocaust with his baiting of both Iran
and North Korea .......) Perhaps it's time our president's
"annual physical exam" at Walter Reed included a psychatric
evaluation?

Make credence recognised that on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:43:27 -0400,
Viking has scripted:

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:30:42 +0200, Doesn't Frequently Mop
wrote:

I guess I was fortunate to work in the finance area a few years back,
and learnt a lot about how currency values work. It really was
enlightening just how the US economy maintains its growth.

Such as?

Sorry Viking, but I'm not interested in going into it, as it's a big
area, and very complex.

Much of it is shrouded in smoke and illusion too.
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:20:17 -0700, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"John Kulp" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:34:42 +0200, Doesn't Frequently Mop
wrote:

Make credence recognised that on 23 Sep 2007 14:51:42 GMT, Jesper
Lauridsen has scripted:

On 2007-09-20, Viking wrote:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/...a-parity_N.htm

Over $1.40 per Euro. I should have moved to Europe before this--it's
unaffordable to visit now.

Turning the US $ into the US Peso is GWB's only plan to balance the
trade deficit. Nothing about actually doing something to improve what
the US has to trade.

The circumstances that have made the dollar plummit so, have been in
place
long before Bush. The only surprise is that didn't happen sooner.

Indeed. There's a tendency to blame everything on that twerp!

It's nonsense. Everyone was predicting surpluses as far as the eye
could see when Bush took office, which he turned into endless deficits
not so much with tax cuts but with refusing to restrain spending with
vetoes and this stupid war. You can track both the exchange rates and
oil prices directly to his administration. Go ahead and look if you
don't believe me.

They were? Clinton never had a surplus! The Nationl Debt went up every
year under his watch also. We have a Congress that on both sides of the
aisles spends like a drunken sailor! We need to vote out all the big
spenders. Not elect anybody from the Congress who has helped overspend
during their term.

don't know the difference between defecit and debt do you.

G

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:38:34 -0700,
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:



John Kulp wrote:

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:36:06 +1000, Alan S wrote:

Nah, he's just not important enough in history's pages to be
responsible for everything that goes wrong. In 100 years
they'll still read history about other Georges, like
Washington or even mad King George, but they will have
totally forgotten Dubya.


It's going to be awfully hard to forget the damage this guy has done.

Given his apparent espousal of "fundamentalist"
Christianity, I begin to seriously wonder whether he is not
deliberately trying to hasten the "Armageddon" the loonier
fringe of them claims is nearly upon us! (He doesn't
believe in "global warming" so opposes any effective
attempts to combat it, he seems to be deliberately trying to
bring on a nuclear holocaust with his baiting of both Iran
and North Korea .......) Perhaps it's time our president's
"annual physical exam" at Walter Reed included a psychatric
evaluation?

Personally I would require a psychiatric evaluation of every
political candidate everywhere as a pre-requisite for
nomination; but the law requiring that would need to be
passed by politicians...

Of course, it can be argued that anyone who makes politics
their career must be insane anyway.


Cheers, Alan, Australia
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http://loraltraveloz.blogspot.com/
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On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:28:28 +1000, Alan S
wrote:

Personally I would require a psychiatric evaluation of every
political candidate everywhere as a pre-requisite for
nomination; but the law requiring that would need to be
passed by politicians...

Of course, it can be argued that anyone who makes politics
their career must be insane anyway.

Some might recall that when George Wallace was running for
president an opponent pointed out that Wallace was on 10%
government disability pay for mental problems he suffered during
WW2. Wallace immediately countered the he was the only
presidential candidate who had government certification that he
was 90% sane.

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On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:43:28 +0200, Doesn't Frequently Mop
wrote:

Make credence recognised that on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:43:27 -0400,
Viking has scripted:

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:30:42 +0200, Doesn't Frequently Mop
wrote:

I guess I was fortunate to work in the finance area a few years back,
and learnt a lot about how currency values work. It really was
enlightening just how the US economy maintains its growth.

Such as?

Sorry Viking, but I'm not interested in going into it, as it's a big
area, and very complex.

Much of it is shrouded in smoke and illusion too.
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Meaning, as usual, he doesn't have one clue what he's talking about.

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:14:01 GMT, grant kinsley
wrote:


Indeed. There's a tendency to blame everything on that twerp!

It's nonsense. Everyone was predicting surpluses as far as the eye
could see when Bush took office, which he turned into endless deficits
not so much with tax cuts but with refusing to restrain spending with
vetoes and this stupid war. You can track both the exchange rates and
oil prices directly to his administration. Go ahead and look if you
don't believe me.

They were? Clinton never had a surplus! The Nationl Debt went up every
year under his watch also. We have a Congress that on both sides of the
aisles spends like a drunken sailor! We need to vote out all the big
spenders. Not elect anybody from the Congress who has helped overspend
during their term.

don't know the difference between defecit and debt do you.

Yes I do and the national debt went down in his last year as well if
you bother checking. That being said, I don't have any problem
throwing them out myself.

Make credence recognised that on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:01:47 +0200,
Martin has scripted:

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:43:28 +0200, Doesn't Frequently Mop
wrote:

Make credence recognised that on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:43:27 -0400,
Viking has scripted:

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:30:42 +0200, Doesn't Frequently Mop
wrote:

I guess I was fortunate to work in the finance area a few years back,
and learnt a lot about how currency values work. It really was
enlightening just how the US economy maintains its growth.

Such as?

Sorry Viking, but I'm not interested in going into it, as it's a big
area, and very complex.

Much of it is shrouded in smoke and illusion too.

and no sign of a smiley :-)

Give me a blank expression instead.

Unlike Mixi, I'm not here to better the world.
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Alan S wrote:

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:38:34 -0700,
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:



John Kulp wrote:


On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:36:06 +1000, Alan S wrote:

Nah, he's just not important enough in history's pages to be
responsible for everything that goes wrong. In 100 years
they'll still read history about other Georges, like
Washington or even mad King George, but they will have
totally forgotten Dubya.


It's going to be awfully hard to forget the damage this guy has done.

Given his apparent espousal of "fundamentalist"
Christianity, I begin to seriously wonder whether he is not
deliberately trying to hasten the "Armageddon" the loonier
fringe of them claims is nearly upon us! (He doesn't
believe in "global warming" so opposes any effective
attempts to combat it, he seems to be deliberately trying to
bring on a nuclear holocaust with his baiting of both Iran
and North Korea .......) Perhaps it's time our president's
"annual physical exam" at Walter Reed included a psychatric
evaluation?


Personally I would require a psychiatric evaluation of every
political candidate everywhere as a pre-requisite for
nomination; but the law requiring that would need to be
passed by politicians...

Good point! ;-)


Of course, it can be argued that anyone who makes politics
their career must be insane anyway.

Or an incorrigible idealist who believes he/she can actually
make a difference. (There are still a few of those around -
trouble is, they seldom get enough financing to win election.)



Cheers, Alan, Australia
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latest: Slovenia
http://loraltraveloz.blogspot.com/
latest: Mossman Gorge in the Daintree Rainforest

"John Kulp" wrote in message
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:20:17 -0700, "Calif Bill"
wrote:



It's nonsense. Everyone was predicting surpluses as far as the eye
could see when Bush took office, which he turned into endless deficits
not so much with tax cuts but with refusing to restrain spending with
vetoes and this stupid war. You can track both the exchange rates and
oil prices directly to his administration. Go ahead and look if you
don't believe me.

They were? Clinton never had a surplus! The Nationl Debt went up every
year under his watch also. We have a Congress that on both sides of the
aisles spends like a drunken sailor! We need to vote out all the big
spenders. Not elect anybody from the Congress who has helped overspend
during their term.


I don't know what planet you live on, but "The federal budget surplus
for fiscal year 1999 was $122.7 billion, and $69.2 billion for fiscal
year 1998. Those back-to-back surpluses, the first since 1957, allowed
the Treasury to pay down $138 billion in national debt.." He had a
$230 billion surplus in fiscal 2000 and left office in 2001 with a
$127 billion surplus.

You need to do some research. Clinton proposed a balanced budget at a
future time. And he was helped by an extreme stock market bubble fueled by
low interest rates. The debt increased every year Clinton was in office.
Not at the rate that Congress as assulted it for the the last 7 years, but
still it increased. The only part of the debt that we can actually tack on
to GWB is the spending bills that he did not veto. You need to take an
American Civics class and learn the the only people who can pass a spending
bill is the Congress.