"Because the alternative is irrationality" responded one of Roger Zelazny's heroes to a step-brother who passionately hated him. "Or privacy" was the response. But inquiring minds want to know - why are the mint marks not "B, M, S, K, und H"? Is there an acronym here, some secret message like "Aller Deutscher Für Gott Jauchzen" which Babelfish could not translate to "All Germans cheer for God", nor did it translate the Englisch phrase into that. Best I could do with my dictionary. with more questions, Thomas Koch ----- Original Message ----- From: Klaus Dieter Cook <kcook@signalgraphics-hou.com> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 10:15 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] anyone with leftover Deutschmarks...?? > Tom you sly devil, you done broke the code. Yes those are indeed mint marks > as follows: > > A - Berlin > D - Munich > F - Stuttgart > G - Karlsruhe > J - Hamburg > > Klaus Dieter Cook > Houston, Texas > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Koch" <ferdinad@omnitelcom.com> > To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 8:50 PM > Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] anyone with leftover Deutschmarks...?? > > > > I only have about 1.66 DM, all in coins. I have about 23 Dutch > Florins, > > also in coins. > > I noticed some letters on my Deutsch coins - an F, a J, und a G. Are > > those mint marks, from what cities? > > What is the plant that is on the 10 pfennig und the 2 pfennig coins? > > Who is the woman of the 50 pfennig coin? (I am pretty sure that she > is > > neither Queen Elizabeth, Lady Liberty, nor the Lady Helvetia.) > > My 10 pfennig coins from 1950 look just like the one from 1991. As > most > > Americans know, it is pretty hard to get a 1950 penny in circulation these > > days, because that would be a "wheat" penny, und those are getting harder > > und harder to find. A pre-1964 half dollar would be a Franklin und also > > mostly silver like a pre-1964 quarter or dime. Silver coins were pretty > rare > > even when I was a kid in the seventies, even rarer were Buffalo nickels > und > > mercury dimes. Does anybody know the history of Deutsch coin designs? How > > have they changed since 1870? > > By changing coin designs und silver content, the US government can > > increase the money supply, und raise revenues without increasing taxes. > > Perhaps a drop in a large bucket, but if 100 million Amerikan households > > save an average of $10 worth of the new state quarters, that is a billion > > dollars. A billion here und a billion there, next thing you are talking > > about real money. > > How about the history of the Deutschmark itself? Was it a Prussian > > currency or Austrian or from the Empire? The Amerikan dollar gets its > name > > from the Spanish dollar, but I do not know how old the dollar is. > > > > Thomas Koch > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <TheAxt@aol.com> > > To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 6:29 PM > > Subject: [GERMAN-LIFE] anyone with leftover Deutschmarks...?? > > > > > > > Greetings listers, > > > > > > Am wondering if any of you recent American visitors > > > to Germany might have some unspent Deutschmark > > > bills you would consider selling to another American. I > > > am in need of about $30 in DM bills to combine with > > > my unspent Deutschmarks from last fall's trip to > > > Germany to purchase and provide postage costs > > > to a cousin in Germany for an ancestral village > > > Ortsippenbuch. > > > > > > Reply to me offline if this DM / dollar exchange might > > > be possible with you... > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Mary Lynn Axtman > > > TheAxt@aol.com > > > > > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > > > Complaints: > > > Contact the list administrator at: GERMAN-LIFE-L-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > > > ============================== > > > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > > > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > > > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > > To UNSUBSCRIBE from digest mode send a message to: > > GERMAN-LIFE-D-request@rootsweb.com and add the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the > message and send. > > > > ============================== > > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > Complaints: > Contact the list administrator at: GERMAN-LIFE-L-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > >

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This URL should be all one line. You have to copy it and paste it into your browser. Klaus Dieter Cook, Houston, Texas http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=cookkd&incl ude=0&since=-1&sort=8

About the Deutsche Mark - In 1871 the old Thaler system was abandoned in favor of the Mark System (100 Pfenning = 1 Mark). However, the Vereinsthaler continued to circulate as a legal tender 3 Mark coin and the double Thaler as a 6 Mark coin until 1908. In 1908 the Vereinsthaler was scrapped and replaced by the 3 Mark coin. Until well into the 1930's the German public continued to refer to the 3 Mark coin as a Thaler. The Weimar republic brought Germany the Rentenmark (100 Rentenpfennig = 1 Rentenmark) and starting in 1924 the Reichsmark (100 Reichspfennig = 1 Reichsmark). This denotation carried on through the Third Reich. In 1948 the Deutsche Mark (100 Pfennig = 1 Deutsche Mark) was coined. In addition to the "Kursmünzen" (money for general circulation) Germany also mints beautiful commemorative coins in 5 Mark (until 1986) and 10 Mark 1987 to present. I am not trying to sell anything here, folks, but if you would like to see some scans of these beautiful commemoratives go to this webpage: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=cookkd&incl ude=0&since=-1&sort=8 This is a list of coins that I am currently auctioning on eBay. Click on the Item number and it will take you to the auction page where you can see the scan. Klaus Dieter Cook Houston, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Koch" <ferdinad@omnitelcom.com> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 8:50 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] anyone with leftover Deutschmarks...?? > I only have about 1.66 DM, all in coins. I have about 23 Dutch Florins, > also in coins. > I noticed some letters on my Deutsch coins - an F, a J, und a G. Are > those mint marks, from what cities? > What is the plant that is on the 10 pfennig und the 2 pfennig coins? > Who is the woman of the 50 pfennig coin? (I am pretty sure that she is > neither Queen Elizabeth, Lady Liberty, nor the Lady Helvetia.) > My 10 pfennig coins from 1950 look just like the one from 1991. As most > Americans know, it is pretty hard to get a 1950 penny in circulation these > days, because that would be a "wheat" penny, und those are getting harder > und harder to find. A pre-1964 half dollar would be a Franklin und also > mostly silver like a pre-1964 quarter or dime. Silver coins were pretty rare > even when I was a kid in the seventies, even rarer were Buffalo nickels und > mercury dimes. Does anybody know the history of Deutsch coin designs? How > have they changed since 1870? > By changing coin designs und silver content, the US government can > increase the money supply, und raise revenues without increasing taxes. > Perhaps a drop in a large bucket, but if 100 million Amerikan households > save an average of $10 worth of the new state quarters, that is a billion > dollars. A billion here und a billion there, next thing you are talking > about real money. > How about the history of the Deutschmark itself? Was it a Prussian > currency or Austrian or from the Empire? The Amerikan dollar gets its name > from the Spanish dollar, but I do not know how old the dollar is. > > Thomas Koch > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <TheAxt@aol.com> > To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 6:29 PM > Subject: [GERMAN-LIFE] anyone with leftover Deutschmarks...?? > > > > Greetings listers, > > > > Am wondering if any of you recent American visitors > > to Germany might have some unspent Deutschmark > > bills you would consider selling to another American. I > > am in need of about $30 in DM bills to combine with > > my unspent Deutschmarks from last fall's trip to > > Germany to purchase and provide postage costs > > to a cousin in Germany for an ancestral village > > Ortsippenbuch. > > > > Reply to me offline if this DM / dollar exchange might > > be possible with you... > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mary Lynn Axtman > > TheAxt@aol.com > > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > > Complaints: > > Contact the list administrator at: GERMAN-LIFE-L-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > ============================== > > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > > > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE from digest mode send a message to: > GERMAN-LIFE-D-request@rootsweb.com and add the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the message and send. > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >

You have heard of "Where is Waldo?" I propose a new game: "Where is Fred?" Fred, have you made it to Missouri yet? Be sure to write when you get to Chama. I was there in '79. You must tell us what secrets the quaking Aspens reveal...after you swat enough of the "no-seeums" that your hands are free enough to type and not scratch :-))) Theola

Tom you sly devil, you done broke the code. Yes those are indeed mint marks as follows: A - Berlin D - Munich F - Stuttgart G - Karlsruhe J - Hamburg Klaus Dieter Cook Houston, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Koch" <ferdinad@omnitelcom.com> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 8:50 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] anyone with leftover Deutschmarks...?? > I only have about 1.66 DM, all in coins. I have about 23 Dutch Florins, > also in coins. > I noticed some letters on my Deutsch coins - an F, a J, und a G. Are > those mint marks, from what cities? > What is the plant that is on the 10 pfennig und the 2 pfennig coins? > Who is the woman of the 50 pfennig coin? (I am pretty sure that she is > neither Queen Elizabeth, Lady Liberty, nor the Lady Helvetia.) > My 10 pfennig coins from 1950 look just like the one from 1991. As most > Americans know, it is pretty hard to get a 1950 penny in circulation these > days, because that would be a "wheat" penny, und those are getting harder > und harder to find. A pre-1964 half dollar would be a Franklin und also > mostly silver like a pre-1964 quarter or dime. Silver coins were pretty rare > even when I was a kid in the seventies, even rarer were Buffalo nickels und > mercury dimes. Does anybody know the history of Deutsch coin designs? How > have they changed since 1870? > By changing coin designs und silver content, the US government can > increase the money supply, und raise revenues without increasing taxes. > Perhaps a drop in a large bucket, but if 100 million Amerikan households > save an average of $10 worth of the new state quarters, that is a billion > dollars. A billion here und a billion there, next thing you are talking > about real money. > How about the history of the Deutschmark itself? Was it a Prussian > currency or Austrian or from the Empire? The Amerikan dollar gets its name > from the Spanish dollar, but I do not know how old the dollar is. > > Thomas Koch > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <TheAxt@aol.com> > To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 6:29 PM > Subject: [GERMAN-LIFE] anyone with leftover Deutschmarks...?? > > > > Greetings listers, > > > > Am wondering if any of you recent American visitors > > to Germany might have some unspent Deutschmark > > bills you would consider selling to another American. I > > am in need of about $30 in DM bills to combine with > > my unspent Deutschmarks from last fall's trip to > > Germany to purchase and provide postage costs > > to a cousin in Germany for an ancestral village > > Ortsippenbuch. > > > > Reply to me offline if this DM / dollar exchange might > > be possible with you... > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mary Lynn Axtman > > TheAxt@aol.com > > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > > Complaints: > > Contact the list administrator at: GERMAN-LIFE-L-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > ============================== > > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > > > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE from digest mode send a message to: > GERMAN-LIFE-D-request@rootsweb.com and add the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the message and send. > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >

Well, before this subject line fades into complete oblivion, I would like to amend a claim I made last Friday when this thread more or less began. (Is a thread of 4-5 days' duration really all that "long ago worn out"? And is there really no more interest in what is surely a pervasive and vital part of German life? Maybe so, but not from this person. Perhaps we should take up the Polka. :-))) I once ripped my right anterior-cruciate ligament doing it. By contrast, walking is much safer. :-))) In my haste to post before departing on a weekend canoe trip, I erroneously wrote that Switzerland has 32,000 miles of hiking trails. Subtract 1,000 from that number. My source is pg. 172, Ch. 28, "Walking the Wanderwegs," Prevention's Complete Book of Walking by Maggie Spilner (Rodale Press, 2000). And to keep this information somewhat consistent with the purpose of the G-L list, I will add that the author suggests taking along a good English-to-German dictionary. Yeah, right--big help that might be with Schweizer-Deutsch. :-) Many of you have observed/experienced the German wanderlust first-hand--would anyone happen to know any good sources of information about walking in Germany? I would like to know more. Actually, as much as possible. Theola, the walker/hiker, wannabe wanderer in Germany, who especially desires to tread the very same ground her ancestors trod

Current monetary exchange rates as per DE-NEWS: Selected currencies: US (1 US$) 2.2787 DM = 1.1650 Euro Canada (1 Cdn$) 1.4924 DM = 0.7630 Euro Britain (1 Pound) 3.1942 DM = 1.6331 Euro Switzerland (100 SFr) 127.8905 DM = 65.389 Euro Japan (100 Y) 1.8483 DM = 0.9450 Euro Sweden (100 SKr) 21.4667 DM = 10.975 Euro Theola

I only have about 1.66 DM, all in coins. I have about 23 Dutch Florins, also in coins. I noticed some letters on my Deutsch coins - an F, a J, und a G. Are those mint marks, from what cities? What is the plant that is on the 10 pfennig und the 2 pfennig coins? Who is the woman of the 50 pfennig coin? (I am pretty sure that she is neither Queen Elizabeth, Lady Liberty, nor the Lady Helvetia.) My 10 pfennig coins from 1950 look just like the one from 1991. As most Americans know, it is pretty hard to get a 1950 penny in circulation these days, because that would be a "wheat" penny, und those are getting harder und harder to find. A pre-1964 half dollar would be a Franklin und also mostly silver like a pre-1964 quarter or dime. Silver coins were pretty rare even when I was a kid in the seventies, even rarer were Buffalo nickels und mercury dimes. Does anybody know the history of Deutsch coin designs? How have they changed since 1870? By changing coin designs und silver content, the US government can increase the money supply, und raise revenues without increasing taxes. Perhaps a drop in a large bucket, but if 100 million Amerikan households save an average of $10 worth of the new state quarters, that is a billion dollars. A billion here und a billion there, next thing you are talking about real money. How about the history of the Deutschmark itself? Was it a Prussian currency or Austrian or from the Empire? The Amerikan dollar gets its name from the Spanish dollar, but I do not know how old the dollar is. Thomas Koch ----- Original Message ----- From: <TheAxt@aol.com> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 6:29 PM Subject: [GERMAN-LIFE] anyone with leftover Deutschmarks...?? > Greetings listers, > > Am wondering if any of you recent American visitors > to Germany might have some unspent Deutschmark > bills you would consider selling to another American. I > am in need of about $30 in DM bills to combine with > my unspent Deutschmarks from last fall's trip to > Germany to purchase and provide postage costs > to a cousin in Germany for an ancestral village > Ortsippenbuch. > > Reply to me offline if this DM / dollar exchange might > be possible with you... > > Thanks, > > Mary Lynn Axtman > TheAxt@aol.com > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > Complaints: > Contact the list administrator at: GERMAN-LIFE-L-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > >

Is that the red dollar? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Klaus Dieter Cook" <kcook@signalgraphics-hou.com> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 9:06 PM Subject: Re: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] Gas Prices That's that funny dollar that they use north of the border up in Canada. Klaus Dieter Cook Houston, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "CJ Lisa" <cjlisa@worldnet.att.net> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 7:57 PM Subject: Re: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] Gas Prices > Hi could someone please explain what the C$ is -- is that the Euro $ or is > Euro $ something else again. BTW I was just in Switzerland and the xchange > rate was US 1$ - CHF 1.78 (Swiss Francs) Now I'm sorry that I didn't spend > some time in Germany as well. > > Thanks > Claire > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <lumby@air.on.ca> > To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 6:02 PM > Subject: Fwd: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] Gas Prices > > > >Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:58:31 -0400 > >To: "Heinz L. Zulauf" <zulauf@bigfoot.de> > >From: lumby@air.on.ca > >Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] Gas Prices > > > >Well, lets see, Heinz > > > >According to the Toronto Globe and Mail the following are Saturday, > exchange rates: > > > >1 US $ = C$ 1.52 > >1 C $ = US $ .66 > > > >1 DM = C$ .67 > >1 C$ = DM 1.48 > > > >1US $ = DM 2.26 > >1 DM = US$ .4414 > > > >The exchange rate of the US vs C $ is why I spend my holidays in Germansy > rather than the US. While the C$ sank drastically compared to the US $, it > stayed the same as it has for the last 5 years against the Deutsche Mark. > > > >The other reason became evident this year, when my wife Sonja had an > accident on the same day we arrived in Stuttgard, and had to spend two days > in the Böblingen Krieskrankenhaus for tests. The entire stay, plus a > battery of tests,(she was considered "Privat") came to less that C$ 1400.00. > >I shudder to think what it would have cost in the US. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >At 11:37 PM 6/18/01 +0200, you wrote: > >>Would be great Ralf, please do. > >>_________________________ > >>Heinz L. Zulauf > >>Flotowstrasse 9 > >>D-64287 Darmstadt > >>Germany > >>zulauf@bigfoot.de > >>_______________________ > >>----- Original Message ----- > >>From: <lumby@air.on.ca> > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > Check the German Food list out at: > GERMAN-FOOD-L@rootsweb.com to subscribe send a message to: > GERMAN-FOOD-L-request@rootsweb.com and add the word SUBSCRIBE in the > message and send. > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > GERMAN-FOOD-L@rootsweb.com to subscribe send a message to: > GERMAN-FOOD-L-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > ______________________________

Greetings listers, Am wondering if any of you recent American visitors to Germany might have some unspent Deutschmark bills you would consider selling to another American. I am in need of about $30 in DM bills to combine with my unspent Deutschmarks from last fall's trip to Germany to purchase and provide postage costs to a cousin in Germany for an ancestral village Ortsippenbuch. Reply to me offline if this DM / dollar exchange might be possible with you... Thanks, Mary Lynn Axtman TheAxt@aol.com

I think we're all getting a bit Loonie-Toonie over these gas prices. By the time we comment on them, they've CHANGED !! Let's face it: the gas war is over, and GAS WON !! Dave Ross

We were in Anaheim California (Orange County,) last week for vacation and gas was over $2.00 a gallon. Although, as we traveled from Tulsa OK to Anaheim we ran across some stations (in the more remote places,) charging closer to $3.00

Who was looking for Ginter info? I have the Grant County Wisconsin Ginter line in finished format. My grandfather, Eggers, married Carolina D. Ginter. mary

Nope: Those are the slang names for them, used by every Thelma, Darlene and Helen, as well as every Tom, Dick and Harry in Canada. Of course, the legal name is - the One dollar coin, and the two dollar coin. but no-one here in Canada uses these names. Ralf At 12:50 PM 6/19/01 -0400, you wrote: >I was told the Canadian dollar coin, with the loon, was called a Looney, and >the $2.00 coin was called a Toonie. Was someone pulling my leg?? Judy > ><< >C$ also = "the loon" !! 'Cause it has a loon on it, and they're my favorite >bird !! :-)) > >Dave >> > > >==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== >To UNSUBSCRIBE from digest mode send a message to: >GERMAN-LIFE-D-request@rootsweb.com and add the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the message and send. > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB >

I use those names. : -) Chris, Calgary, Ab ----- Original Message ----- From: <lumby@air.on.ca> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] Looney & Tooney > Nope: Those are the slang names for them, used by every Thelma, Darlene and > Helen, as well as every Tom, Dick and Harry in Canada. > > Of course, the legal name is - the One dollar coin, and the two dollar > coin. but no-one here in Canada uses these names. > > Ralf > > > At 12:50 PM 6/19/01 -0400, you wrote: > >I was told the Canadian dollar coin, with the loon, was called a Looney, and > >the $2.00 coin was called a Toonie. Was someone pulling my leg?? Judy > > > ><< > >C$ also = "the loon" !! 'Cause it has a loon on it, and they're my favorite > >bird !! :-)) > > > >Dave >> > > > > > >==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > >To UNSUBSCRIBE from digest mode send a message to: > >GERMAN-LIFE-D-request@rootsweb.com and add the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the > message and send. > > > >============================== > >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > >Source for Family History Online. Go to: > >http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE from digest mode send a message to: > GERMAN-LIFE-D-request@rootsweb.com and add the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the message and send. > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB >

I was told the Canadian dollar coin, with the loon, was called a Looney, and the $2.00 coin was called a Toonie. Was someone pulling my leg?? Judy << C$ also = "the loon" !! 'Cause it has a loon on it, and they're my favorite bird !! :-)) Dave >>

Regular gas $1.85 in Riverside County, Southern CA. Ruth S.

Ralf, you hit it right on the button. The US has outsourced all its business and little is produced in the US anymore. As much as it indicates the economy is good -- why is it that the mega corps are consistently laying off people from jobs. All that is happening here is that the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer. Claire ----- Original Message ----- From: <lumby@air.on.ca> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 8:18 AM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] Looks good, Heinz - - - > David- > In my rather simplistic point of view, there is another way of looking at > your favourable (?) American Dollar exchange rate. > The American dollar has over the past year, soared higher against all other > currencies. > That is great for American tourists visiting other countries. You people > are flooding Canada, and Germany, and most other countries and spending > your dollars. > > However, look at it this way. As far as international import export is > concerned - the USA is pricing itself out of business. Your goods are too > expensive at the current exchange rates. Other countries will turn to > others to fill their import needs. and your exports will continue to drop. > On the other hand- the US will use their over priced dollar, buy cheap > goods overseas, and boost the economies of these nations, while vastly > increasing their own trade deficit. > > American tourists will drink gallons (halb liters) of great German beer, > making the German breweries rich, and to the Germans, a liter of beer will > remain the same price. > > You will buy our natural gas and oil at highly inflated prices set by a > cartel in the Mid East, and we will wallow in your dollars so that you can > keep warm in the winter and cool in the summer. > > Hows that for the "new economy" > > Ralf > > > > > At 07:41 AM 6/19/01 -0400, you wrote: > >And how much better the exchange now than just a few weeks ago !! Of > course, > >it's in OUR favor, which doesn't make it "better" for those from ovedr there > >who come over here !! > > > >DAve Ross > > > > > > > > > >==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > >Complaints: > >Contact the list administrator at: GERMAN-LIFE-L-admin@rootsweb.com > > > >============================== > >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > >Source for Family History Online. Go to: > >http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > Complaints: > Contact the list administrator at: GERMAN-LIFE-L-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > >

I am paying $1.49 for regular Conoco here it Utah. It has been at that price for several months now, and I don't expect it to go down. When I moved from Maryland to California in 1971, I paid a low of $0.19.9 in Baltimore, and a high of $0.42.9 in Vernal, Utah. Then came the gas shortage, and we found out that $0.35 gas was scarce, but $0.53 gas was plentiful. Gee, it's good to have an oil man in the White House these days. Roy Schmidt >>> <LMS29@aol.com> 06/18/01 08:59PM >>> I live in Chicago where gas prices have been astronomical, though they are going down a little. Our usual station here in the city had gas for $1.77 yesterday. However we were going out to one of our son's place in the western suburbs and decided to wait until we got there to fill up. We must have been traveling on fumes because we really filled up at $1.69. Some of the big name brands are still going for upwards of $2, and this is for regular. Lois ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== To UNSUBSCRIBE from this mail list send a message to: GERMAN-LIFE-L-request@rootsweb.com and in the message add the word UNSUBSCRIBE and send. ============================== Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate your heritage! http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog