Von Fugal wrote: > Come get your ameros! The amero conspiracy theory is one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time.
And in regards to your other commend about the falling dollar, well it's simply not so. The dollar is as strong right now as it was at the beginning of 2007 before it fell to par with the canadian dollar, which was only a temporary thing. It currently is taking a beating (not as much though) because of the current crisis. Check the 2-year exchange against the Euro if you don't believe me (the euro has been extremely stable lately). The Amero just isn't ever going to happen. I can assure you that Canadians are overwhelmingly against any currency union, despite the fact that it was a Canadian think tank that first postulated about a unified north american currency. From a canadian point of view an Amero would be devastating to the Canadian economy. Canada is primarily and exporting country, and it exports 80% of its goods to the US. Thus it's to Canada's advantage to have a lower valued currency against the US dollar. Thus the high canadian dollar hurt Canada a bit last summer. Trading with such a large country on an equal currency footing would be suicide for Canada in general. Furthermore, the US dollar is already the de facto currency in Mexico for folks with any money, so there's really no point in an official unified currency that'd just be dragged down in value by Mexico's economy and endemic government corruption. Right now they get all the advantages of having the dollar as their currency without any of the other stuff that would come with actually owning a currency. The European union was an overdue joining of states (sound familiar?) to better compete in a global market. That and the adoption of the Euro has more in common with the founding of the United States (same thing!) and the eventual establishment of the dollar as a common currency among them than it does with some supposed socialist conspiracy. The US is already a union of states. So there's no need for further unions of any kind. So no. Don't worry about the so-called "Amero." It just isn't going to happen. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
