US vs. Canadian Currency

[Cali Scott]

You don't find your response to my post a little abrasive? I do. That was shitting.

And what is an extra 20%? Can't be bothered with people who nickel and dime everything (though I do do that sometimes).

What an extra 20% is has been thoroughly covered in this thread.
I'd hardly call 20% "nickle & dime" Marmalade (In the literal sense those would be 5% & 10% respectively anyway). If your rent or your car payment were raised by one fifth, I think that you'd think it was a lot. If all of a sudden, the going rates for SP's went down 20% would you think that that was "nickle & dime"? Are you saying that making an extra $60 on a $300 consultation is nothing? Seriously?

Sorry (I apoligozed to you in post #74) if it offends you but I stand by what I said originally: In my experience NOBODY else does this whether it be a store, MP, SP or SW. I think that it's agreat way to make an extra 20% on your services though which is why I called it BS. Now if they're some arrogant bastard then sure, I'd skim an extra 1/5th for their being a pain in the ass but otherwise, since you profit handsomely, I think that it's suspect which is why I called it BS.

 

[crossed fingers]

we're generally the most easy going people around but all i ment to say is that i wouldn't take the american dollar as being the modern gold standard for granted. the vast majority of the world knows america as an entity is going to burn in the deepest quadrant hell for how they've gotten ahead in the game. yeah yeah yeah, don't hate the player... my only relevant wish is that the canadian dollar would fairly represent it's contributions to the world, being the number one supplier of oil to the united states (second is venezuela) and primary holder of the only resource more valuable: water. 90% of the world's clean supply. fuck the yank mofos trying to destroy that by attempting to bribe us into being nuclear dumping ground for american power plants. you owe us well more than 20% by what we're cheating out of by poor international policy. the quality girls deserve more than the going rate in vancouver anyway - you can thank vansterdam's notoriously clean heroin for those undercutting rates into the ground - and i don't know how else to better represent your verility than with throwing paper around, based on observation of american culture.

 

[dittman]

OK, Mr. Simple, so how often do you pay a Canadian SP in US dollars? And what kind of exchange rate do you expect?

And why do you hate your country so much that you won't capitalize its name?

ok herbie ill explain it to you so even youre very simple mind can pick up the concept of capitalism. I have never paid an sp in victoria or vancouver in usd because i would lose money on the deal and her services then become much more expensive jeez what a concept. you are truly a light weight herbie. nothing but an angry disillusioned whiteman who cant get laid. even when you pay for it.

such a comeback i was so hurt that you pointed out that i cant find the shift key ouch.

 

[dittman]

Herb, you crack me up!

thats because you are so full of shit, You would not hear that kind of garbage comming out of any americans mouth especially in redondo beach calif. the bluest of blue states. they would be thinking alot like you. But then again as i have said in the past canada gets the bad we get the good.

Bp as i have said in the past your nothing but a hateful, arrogant bigot sad to be you. besides if the only thing you can come back with is my puncuation and grammer, that is so herbie, so light weight. besides you understand what i am saying so you must also be a functional illiterate.

as far as herbie goes any functional illiterate knows what on par means when talking about currency exchange so that must make you worse then a functional illiterate, just plain moron.

 

[bigmoe69er]

Dittman, as hateful as BP has been, perhaps he should join his sidekick Smackyo in the penalty box.

---Dr. Moe

 

[dittman]

LOL@BigMo your probably right

 

[georgebushmoron]

i wouldn't take the american dollar as being the modern gold standard for granted. the vast majority of the world knows america as an entity is going to burn in the deepest quadrant hell for how they've gotten ahead in the game.

Wouldn't count your chickens too fast about America going down and the greenback the defacto gold standard sliding away. Sorry, but most foreign reserves of industrialised nations have significant deposits of USD because Nixon got the oil producers to agree that the USD was the currency of transaction. And so it has been that way ever since. Countries then bought up USD for their foreign reserves by exchanging their gold for it. That gold ended up at Fort Knox. Every currency is thus backed almost completely by the USD. And for those who dare to adopt another standard, say the Euro... well look at what happened to Sadaam when he dared to flush 1/3 of his USD reserves for the Euro a few months before Gulf II. All the terrorists, WMD, corrupt leadership aside, the thing that motivates the most is when it hits the fucking wallet my friend.

 

[dittman]

but then again the euro cant be the standard the damn europeans cant even agree on a simple thing like a constitution. by the way the liberals were the ones that wrote it, 400 and some pages. Typical liberals want to control every aspect of ones lifes.

 

[dirtydan]

but then again the euro cant be the standard the damn europeans cant even agree on a simple thing like a constitution. by the way the liberals were the ones that wrote it, 400 and some pages. Typical liberals want to control every aspect of ones lifes.

Constitutions are not simple things. They are the basis of which a country operates. Some are vague while others are lengthy. It maybe a little too easy and lazy to sluff off the failures of the proposed EU constition by yapping something about liberals. I guess when some one can't come up with anything else to say then using liberals as scapegoats fits the lazy bill. Keep in mind that as a supranational entity there are many national governments a involved in the EU, each with its own vested interests. Coming up with a simple constitution is merely pie in the sky rhetoric. That is unless one to everybody to conform to the exact same thing with all various national differences immediately erased at the stroke of a pen and a click of a heel.

 

[georgebushmoron]

but then again the euro cant be the standard the damn europeans cant even agree on a simple thing like a constitution. by the way the liberals were the ones that wrote it, 400 and some pages. Typical liberals want to control every aspect of ones lifes.

The Euro is backed by real assets and economic growth, that's why it looks so attractive to foreign governments now. Government financiers could give a rat's ass whether their constitution is written by liberals, nazis, fags or housewives (but I know that you have tremendous discretion and refined tastes, so you care). The USD is no longer backed by assets, but backed by IOUs in the form of government bonds, ie: DEBT. And a small factoid... the USD is also backed by a massive military, the biggest in the world. Its military budget was 48% of the world's military expenditures last year. Second to that was China, at 6%.

 

[luckydog71]

...The USD is no longer backed by assets, but backed by IOUs in the form of government bonds, ie: DEBT. ...

W, you do get it. The US dollar is so inflated on the world market. I know you have made idol threats to get the currency of China in line with our currency. Now is the time to get us in line. Our trade deficit would drop significantly if the US dollar was valued properly. Just think about how that would help our debt. Many foreigners hold our debt. If we devalued our dollar by 25% then our debt would be reduced by 25%.

The only thing I can think of is you are waiting for another year or 2 to pull the trigger.

W you and Reagan will go down in modern history as presidents who advanced the US economy. What a great plan...hold the US dollar high and borrow as much as you can. Then when you have reached saturation...stop borrowing and devalue the dollar. Brilliant. Mr. President....I take my hat off to you.

Do you think the Chinaman will ever see what hit him?

 

[georgebushmoron]

W, you do get it. The US dollar is so inflated on the world market. I know you have made idol threats to get the currency of China in line with our currency. Now is the time to get us in line. Our trade deficit would drop significantly if the US dollar was valued properly. Just think about how that would help our debt. Many foreigners hold our debt. If we devalued our dollar by 25% then our debt would be reduced by 25%.

You are absolutely correct my friend. Absolutely correct. Simply devalue our dollar and the debt to these foreigners begins to vanish. On the other hand, the inflated USD is so that Americans can buy foreign resources cheaply, like oil, gas, electricity, etc. We effectively control world commodity prices. But let's say we devalued our dollar, allowing our debt to foreigners to vanish into thin air. Wouldn't that be nice huh? You should be hired on by Greenspan immediately! I'm sure glad I'm not a foreign country having to do business with us, cuz we sure know how to play fair. Free Trade is a great setup for us too..... a great way to export our debt.

W you and Reagan will go down in modern history as presidents who advanced the US economy. What a great plan...hold the US dollar high and borrow as much as you can. Then when you have reached saturation...stop borrowing and devalue the dollar. Brilliant. Mr. President....I take my hat off to you.

I'm glad you've lumped me in with Ronnie. He was truly a great president who advanced the US economy (by plunging the world into a recession). But who cares, we're #1 and that's all that matters.

Do you think the Chinaman will ever see what hit him?

They have 1 billion plus people, so they can afford to lose a couple hundred million to starvation. No problem there. But don't you hate it when others resort to currency manipulation like we do? Hurts doesn't it???

 

[dittman]

gbm im really surprised at you as smart as you think you are and as well read as you think you are you would have run across somewhere, anywhere, where it states that the big 3 economically in the eu, that being germany, france and italy, have been stagnant for several years, no growth unemploment hovering in double digits. The reason being is that their tax bite on the average citizen is huge. when i lived in germany 30 years ago making a middle class wage lower middle class at that, it was 33%.

youre absolutely correct dirtydan i will say elitist and not liberals(even though they are one in the same) they would like to control all of the citizens of europes everyday activity. Liberals=no civil rights.

 

[georgebushmoron]

gbm im really surprised at you as smart as you think you are and as well read as you think you are you would have run across somewhere, anywhere, where it states that the big 3 economically in the eu, that being germany, france and italy, have been stagnant for several years, no growth unemploment hovering in double digits. The reason being is that their tax bite on the average citizen is huge. when i lived in germany 30 years ago making a middle class wage lower middle class at that, it was 33%.

As bad you say it is over there, its worse in America. Try looking up stats on American debt and the figures are staggering. No country matches it. America is the #1 debtor nation in the world, 10 times greater than the next. As an American citizen, you should be gravely concerned instead of ignoring the facts so you can feel good about the USA. The economy is not holding its own, but it is being propped up by "external means". Your assessment by rates of employment are a very very small part of the economic picture and therefore inaccurate. As for the bit about what happened 30 years ago, you shouldn't have bothered to add that in. Just goes to show that you're out of your league. Economies can turn around in less than 20 years in the modern era. Just look at Japan and South Korea.

 

[Herb_The_Perb]

but then again the euro cant be the standard the damn europeans cant even agree on a simple thing like a constitution. by the way the liberals were the ones that wrote it, 400 and some pages. Typical liberals want to control every aspect of ones lifes.

Hmm, a constitution is a simple thing, eh? Especially a 400 page one.
Have you ever read a 400 page aanything in your life, dittboy? A novel, a non fiction book, a report, anything?

Since you know all about the EU constitution and how it controls every aspect of everyone's lifes [sic], perhaps you can pass along the offending sections to us so that we can understand how flawed that document is.

And tell us about the brilliant success of the constitution that your right-wing pals wrote for Iraq -- how's that one going?

 

[Herb_The_Perb]

W, you do get it. The US dollar is so inflated on the world market. I know you have made idol threats to get the currency of China in line with our currency. Now is the time to get us in line. Our trade deficit would drop significantly if the US dollar was valued properly. Just think about how that would help our debt. Many foreigners hold our debt. If we devalued our dollar by 25% then our debt would be reduced by 25%.

And our ability to pay off that debt will also drop by 25%, since our dollars would be worth that much less. So it would make no difference to existing debt.

And our Canadian pooning would cost us 33% more than today. That would be an international financial crisis in my estimation.

Or am I missing something?

 

[Herb_The_Perb]

Liberals=no civil rights.

Dittman, you are a bloody genius!
Those liberals pushed through the Patriot Act, are torturing prisoners, and are holding prisoners in Cuba for years without having charged themn with anything or given them a trial or a release.
Damn liberals.
I say we should kill them.
Pronto!

 

[BobbiVan]

I may not be a math genius...

... but www.xe.com does some great convertions. I prefer that the client tells me before hand that he'll be paying in US, and in almost all cases, he does. I check the rate, then round up in case the rate changes. I generally get about the same as my CAD rate. When I do get shorted a couple dollars, why the hell do I care!? it's only a couple of dollars.

To accept american at par isn't fair. Your client ends up paying more for the same services. Not fair business practice at all, it's like punishing them for having a different currency.

 

[BushPilot]

To accept american at par isn't fair. Your client ends up paying more for the same services. Not fair business practice at all, it's like punishing them for having a different currency.

No, it's like punishing them for not acting like a normal human being and going to the bank or exchange bureau and getting the proper currency before travelling to a foreign country. It's not even that complicated. All they have to do is go to an ATM, withdraw money from their USA bank account and they'll receive Cdn. $$s at the daily bank exchange rate.

 

[SeekSteadyRegSP]

to russel

Russel,

Just put your paychecks in the bank as you would normally do, then drive into Canada and use the Canadian cash machine most closely affiliated with your U.S. bank to get cash in Cdn. on your visits there.

If you have extra at the end of your first visit, just take it with you back to the states and bring it back upon return.

That should be pretty easy.