From: "JamHandy" <************@gmail.com>
Date: 2007/09/23 Sun PM 12:01:07 EDT
To: HTOs1 <htos@**********.net>, "*** Hendee III" <rhendee@*********.net>, candlestickproductions2007@gmail.com
Subject: Not since 1976.....
Living in Michigan, we have always made fun of the Canadian money from over the border. Unlike other states to the south, and to the west, we regularly see Canadian coins mixed in with the change handed out at retail exchanges.
And as far as the paper money, we have always laughed and puffed out our bellies, and exclaimed how that Canadian dollar is actually worth about 75 cents in the USA.
Not anymore.....
According to Friday's Wall Street Journal (Sept. 22-23 Weekend Edition, 2007) front page news story entitled "Currency Parity Is a Point Of Pride, but Americans Won't Like The Prices"... the Canadian dollar is now MORE VALUABLE than the American dollar. According to this news story, this is something that has not happened since 1976.
I Remember 1976. The one thing I remember most about that year would be OPEC... remember those guys? (They are still with us and still haunting us, by the way...) They had an OPEC oil embargo going on, remember that? Middle eastern oil clenched it's fist around the hearty neck of the highly industrialized U.S.
The country was plunged into a huge recession. People lined up at the gas pumps for blocks down the street, as some stations rationed gas to customers. By 1980, gas prices surged over $1.00 a gallon for the first time in history.
It all sounds very familiar, doesn't it? Except that the price has now tripled. Funny thing is... minimum wage has NOT tripled... Have you noticed the price per barrel of crude oil lately? According to the same Wall Street Journal issue as stated above, oil close Friday at $81.62 a barrel. I remember distinctly that Bush claimed oil would drop to $20 a barrel if we were to go into Iraq, thus aiding the American economy.
It didn't work, George... and I think it's time to realize the "coitus interuptus" efforts in this (or any) Muslim-based country are NOT going to conceive the kind of economic placenta-fertilizing results you first idealized. Basically, all it's doing is pissing off her Muslim big brother, Mohammed OPEC Mohammed Mohammed ...
Yes, the Dow Jones is up, Mr. President, but have you looked at the U.S. housing market? It's in shambles, and guess who's standing at the shores with billions of dollars, licking their Muslim beards, waiting to buy, buy, buy? Yup, middle eastern companies with their oil-rich bank rolls. Oh, they don't want out houses... not when they can buy 19.8% of the NASDAQ exchange. That happened a mere 3 days ago... here's the quote from the online edition of the Wall Street Journal:
Sept. 20, 2007
Nasdaq Stock Market and Borse Dubai have reached a deal under which Nasdaq will take over Nordic exchange operator OMX AB, while Borse Dubai acquires 19.9% of Nasdaq and 28% of the London Stock Exchange. The deal would resolve a takeover battle between Nasdaq and state-owned Borse Dubai for OMX, and could make Dubai the first Mid east government to hold a significant stake in a U.S.-based stock-market operator.
Why buy America one house at a time, when you can just buy... AMERICA ?
Oh, and did I mention that last year (according to this Weekend Edition of the Wall Street Journal), we received 19,800 Iraqi refugees last year? Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee ... let's blow up there country, let middle eastern companies buy the stock exchange, bow to OPEC and let them ram a push rod up our automobile keester... annnnnnd invite the Muslim folks to come on over to stay, we'll leave the lights on for you.
But would the last one OUT of Michigan, please turn out the lights? That is the underground slogan of Michigan right now. There is a mass exodus of prospective businesses and employees scrambling out of Michigan in order to re-locate in some other state for economic reasons.
We pride ourselves on being an "industrialized nation" but guess what? Michigan is one of the HEARTS of that industrialization. And if this heart were any more diseased, it will simply fall out of America's chest and plop onto the floor of the stock exchange. According to a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics bar graph a friend recently forwarded to me, Detroit is now has the WORST job growth market in the country. Yes, they come in DEAD LAST of all cities in the U.S. I live about 30 minutes from Detroit. I can feel the OPEC stranglehold everyday.
How better to strangle your enemy than to press your thumbs into is juggler vein? The juggler vein of any industrialized nation would be the industries. Here in Michigan, the number one industry is automobiles, but that is not the only product Michigan produces. Its just the product every American uses to get to work. In war, you first want to take out the enemy's communications... I saw that go down in 2002. I haven't found a job in telecommunications engineering since 2002... Then, if you want to cripple the enemy, destroy his ability to re-supply... and that is about transportation.
Strangling the motorist trying to get to work is one way to impeded transportation, skyrocketing gas prices and non-skyrocketing wages are an effective deterrent/ But there are other matters involved besides an employee trying to get to work or drive to the grocery store. The 18-wheelers that delivery every retail good in America are now experience higher costs. Transportation is effected yet one more time, and yet much closer to what in war time would be the "supply lines."
The 18-wheelers are not the only diesel engine vehicle in the country experiencing higher costs of operation. Most every backhoe, bulldozer, boom crane, dirt mover, and asphalt layer in the country needs either gasoline of diesel fuel ( i.e. petroleum-based products) in order to move and to build. In war time, another objective of destruction is the enemy's ability to re-build much needed resources.
Industrialized growth would require a building to be built in order for the new industry to set up. By increasing the cost of the fuel that runs the machines that build the buildings, there has been a stumbling block thrown on the floor of the industrialized nation's growth sector. Meanwhile we have a complete buffoon as a President who thinks that growth sector is more like "Romper Room." And I entirely and emphatic DREAD the 2008 elections. What complete dumbass will lead this country next? I've had enough of the Bush and Clinton jackass management schemes to last a lifetime. I can only PRAY that we get a leader from some other source than the Bush or Clinton camps. If we do get a extremist liberal, or an extremist conservative... I will make the call here... we can start packing our apples away for a nice long Depression.
Forget Recession, we have a leader right now who is as incompetent economically as Herbert Hoover... the Republican that led us right into the Great Depression, and didn't lift a finger to do anything to stop it. Hoover did ZERO to prevent the Depression... guess what (in my opinion) Bush is doing to prevent the housing market to crash, the arabs to buy out the stock exchanges, and the industrialization of the American heartland to crumble like a stale crusty cookie?
As out illegal Mexican immigrants say..... NADA..... meaning, NOTHING!!!
We have a modern day Herbert Hoover in the Oval Office right now. A lame idiot who has sat on his hands for several years, and watched the price of fuel at the gas pumps go from about a buck fifty, to over three dollars a gallon.
Not since 1976.....
We need another 1776....
The place has went to hell, and perhaps the only thing that will make it right is a complete revolution.
I got my gun... got yours?
Don't go to Canada to buy one, they can't have guns there.... in case you didn't know. (Unless ya' like shotguns...) And besides, now that their dollar is worth more than our dollar, it would cost more to buy a shotgun over there
The price of liberty just went up.....
HTO's 2.1
Editorial maker and commentator in real-time
"A ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
- John 8:32