2003-03-16 You are missing the point completely! I am failing to understand why you people can't grasp this very simple concept. It isn't that complicated, nor need it be.
I'm NOT associating the metric system with Europe. I never said anything in my postings making such an association. What I am saying is that the euro, which of course is from Europe, is the only currency with the power to challenge the dollar and thus bring an end to dollar hegemony. Dollar hegemony affects the WHOLE WORLD,. An end to dollar hegemony, ends US dominance in matters of trade. It doesn't advocate a decline or demise of the US. It advocates that the US become a team player, not a dictator. It means the US will have to depend on exports to make money to maintain its standard of living, and not deficits and credit. And finally, it means in order to be a net exported, more attention will have to be paid to the metrication issue. We have tied, oh boy have we tried, to promote metric on its merits. It goes in one ear and out the other. I would get better results explaining the benefits of SI to a chimpanzee then to my next door neighbour. People in the US will only see its merits when it becomes required use. And that will come about only via the methods I outlined above and in my previous postings. DO NOT associate the end of dollar hegemony with the demise, decline, or the US stumbling. Associate it with a positive restructuring of the US economy, where the US becomes better off as a result of running a trade surplus and metrication being a valuable part of that restructuring and resultant surplus. Are we understanding this better now? John >"euroisation = metrication" MUST be our battle cry. > NOT. Why would we associate the metric system, which should be as American > as apple pie, with Europe, which a lot of us are annoyed with at the moment? > America's share of world GDP has been shrinking for decades, lately because > of Asia's development, not Europe's development or America's decline. Let's > promote metric on its merits, not by hoping the U.S. stumbles. >
