What do you mean by losing it? Our economy? That's our own damn fault, as we have discussed many times. Social Security and Medicare are going to bankrupt us, and through our anti-immigrant policy we are keeping the very people who could help feed the system well into this century out of the system.
In the short run, the weak dollar is inevitable, and perhaps even good, because it will help us get back in the business of selling our goods and services to other countries. China in particular is taking it on the chin for oil and other commodities right now by not re-evaluating their currency against the dollar, but they feel they need to stay more or less close to the dollar to keep from losing their trade advantage with the U.S. India has let the rupee appreciate significantly against the dollar, so they are not getting walloped as much in the international commodities markets as China, but at the same time they are hurting their services industry's exports. Of course, that becomes less important as they develop a domestic market for services, too. Ultimately, the currencies of the biggest economies in the world need to come into line with each other. The Europeans are staving off the drop in the euro with a variety of strategies, but in the end they are just putting off the inevitable pain of dealing with a stronger yen and rupee, among others. On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:10 PM, denstar wrote: > > .... > > For all the bluster about talk about freedom on this list, it seems > only > > those of us who already have it are the only ones who deserve it, eh? > > I'm more curious about those who don't care that we're losing it over > here. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:256627 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
