New Billboard in Bolivia - Stop saving dollars!

tejasmarcos says on Mar 13, 13:30:

can anybody spare a euro?

god is in your head

gringoloid says on Mar 13, 14:35:

soon, you will be getting into ameros.

tejasmarcos says on Mar 13, 14:42:

heard about that one. amerocurrency.com, cierto?

god is in your head

DodgerDogs says on Mar 14, 03:03:

Bush Bucks

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.Martin Luther King:

LDW says on Mar 14, 14:24:

Ameros??............maybe that will happen, but it would surprise me.

(1) Canadian dollar is strong now. I doubt that Canadians would accept the idea of converting to Ameros, and with Canada as the largest trading partner of the United States, Canadian participation would be pretty much essential.

(2) Somehow, based on the political history of Latin America, I have a difficult time imagining how some countries south of the Rio Grande would enhance the stability of any currency.

Please note....I am not trying to sing the praises of GWB & Co.

Dan says on Mar 15, 07:00:

I wonder where to get Euros.

God Bless America!

gringoloid says on Mar 15, 08:07:

you can get euros from a paypal account. also swiss francs and norwegian krone.

LDW, this is a done deal................why would you think average canadian citizens would have anything to say about this?..........was the united states congress consulted? do any of the presidential candidates discuss this?........it may take awhile for the spp to be initiated but canadian water has already been deemed a communal resource for usa and mexico.

i've been saying all along that canadians are going to get fokked in this deal.....except for our Man Tequila who is positioning himself positively in this matter by being fluent in spanish. I'm not going to make anything out of this...........but Man T is going to get rich!

We're only one crisis away from the inititiation of this program.

There was a guy here called John Stark who reemed me on my opinions......when he saw the Trans Texas Corridor going up in his own state of Texas..........he came back here and said he was wrong..............I'm still waiting for Tinto to 'fess up'...............but we may have a couple more years yet before this gets fully started.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_and_Prosperity_Partnership_of_No...

LDW says on Mar 15, 12:29:

gringoloid.....

Diverting Canadian water south is a topic that has been discussed for a long time. It hasn't received much coverage in recent years, but it has been a political hot potato from time to time.

Right now, fresh water in tankers seems to be the most environmentally and politically palatable idea, and it has been tried. Park a tanker off the coast of BC, plug it into a waterfall that is cascading into the ocean anyway, and fill it. Tankers are more economical than pipelines or huge diversions in any case. I would suppose that the difficulty would be that such water could only be delivered to coastal ports such as LA, which presumably would take some pressure off LA's demand from California's inland sources.

Logistically, it would seem to me that such a venture would be easiest from Brazil, and the Amazon regions of Colombia and Peru. Ocean going vessels can traverse the Amazon as far up river as Iquitos in Peru. Filling a tanker full of fresh water on that river would, it would seem to me, not be such a huge trick, especially with the way that water levels in the Amazon fluctuate with the level of rainfall.

More and more people in areas of water shortages should be doing what people in Bermuda do. They should be modifying the roofs of their houses to collect water in tanks outisde or beneath their homes. Even in places like Arizona, there are periods of rainfall where that would be effective.

A single currency? It may very well happen, but it will be difficult. That would absolutely be a political hot potato here in Canada. I can't see it happening here without our "Professional Canadian Nationalists" (such as those with the presumptious name "Council of Canadians"...as if those who are not members are somehow not Canadian) raising a monstrous stink about about it, with the CBC totally and completely on board with them.

BTW.....I am already fairly fluent in Spanish, but not with idea of getting rich. I am too old to be thinking about changing the world. I just want to be spending the winters in Armenia on the golf course.