You Say Amero, I Say Dollar

To add a little more fuel to the already flaming meltdown, I am now hearing rumors around the Internet about a covert monetary coalition between the U.SA., Canada and Mexico that will virtually render all of our hard earned but depleted savings and investments to pennies on the dollar and that these three nations would be trading in a new currency called the Amero.  Here is a little info about it from Wikipedia.  It was Polish economist, Mateusz Machaj who pointed out that the Amero theory is a Canadian pipe dream that is going nowhere, and that the images you see all over the web are actually the designs of a private artist named Daniel Carr. I think back to when European nations banded together to create a common currency.  According to my memory, the reasoning behind the Euro was that these countries were small and people could conceivably travel between them in a short matter of time making money conversion a headache,  especially for tourists.  It took years of working out the details and votes by the people of those countries to make it happen.  During this time, there was much talk on the news and in fact, before it was common knowledge to the masses, one of the soaps (I think it was General Hospital or Guiding Light) picked it up.  Read more »