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    BA> I don/t think one can refuse to accept US currency in this   
    BA> country.  But AFAIK you *can* offer a discount for other   
    BA> currencies to encourage their usage.   
      
    BA> Just think, something costs 5 pesos or 15 USdollars.   
      
    Since the dollar is currently worth 12 pesos, you'd go broke in   
    hours.   
      
    BA> We know that the US government is broke and has been for   
    BA> probably forty years. We also know that despite the   
    BA> crushing existing debt and the outrageous deficit that   
    BA> grows it that congress is not going to stop spending money.   
      
    The debt today is not even dangerous compared to what it has   
    been in the past. The only real danger is the lack of jobs.   
      
    BA> In the not too distant future customers are going to stop   
    BA> buying US debt instruments   
    BA> no matter what interest rate is offered, at which point the   
      
    Good, then China will collapse and the US can return to   
    manufacturing which will restore our economy.   
      
    OTOH, the collapse of the US economy is probably just what the   
    right is aiming for. The real right, the Grover Norquist right,   
    not you trivial right wing useful tools. The US economy   
    collapses, they wipe out your pension, military and social   
    security and whatever else, take away your military medical care   
    or insurance and medicare and medicaid, and leave you living in   
    the streets with nothing.   
      
    The end result, the rich, IE the Grover Norquists of the   
    country, live like kings and you wind up a peon kissing his ring   
    for a crust of bread.   
      
    Enjoy your choice.   
      
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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