George Bush’s Economy Wrecks My Child Support
Euro Reaches All-Time High Against the Dollar
The dollar took another fall on currency markets Thursday, reaching one-to-one parity against the Canadian dollar for the first time in 30 years and plumbing a new low against the 13-nation European currency.
This is bad news. Bad news for me and bad news for my son.
Let me explain: the US dollar has historically outperformed Canada’s historically silly currency. When I met Sam’s mom in 2003 for example, one US dollar was worth almost $1.25 Canadian dollars, maybe even more. Even taking into account Bush’s remarkably bad handling of the economy, my child support has gone farther than expected, because once my American money converted to Canadian, his mom had more to spend. Not so anymore. And if the dollar continues to decline in value, I will have to send MORE of my hard-earned cash, which doesn’t buy so much here in the US anymore, to Canada to make up the difference.
Thanks to George Bush, my child support dollars don’t go anywhere near as far as they used to. Thanks to George Bush, the price of imports, which we now depend on thanks to the brilliant idea to send all the good-paying blue- and white-collar jobs to freakin’ India, China, and assorted slave labor colonies sweatshops offshore factories in the South Pacific, is going to go up. Once again, the American middle class gets a kick in the teeth from the very people they elected to represent them.
Why does George Bush punish struggling families? Why do Republicans hate children? Why are Democrats such spineless disorganized weaklings that even in the majority they can’t manage to accomplish anything? And why do I keep having dreams of Lucy Parsons?
