If we had adopted the euro following the rules of carrying democracy to extremes as used in the USA, it would either never have been adopted at all, or we would face confusion for decades between the old currencies and the euro running together, just as in the USA ifp and metric as well as the dollar coin and the dollar bill are running together. And how long did it take in the USA to do away with the fractional dollars and the pieces of eight in the stock exchange? More than 200 years! And still there was a lot of resistance to this long overdue decimalisation when it happened at last. Maybe, 'democracy' should have prevailed once again and the change duly cancelled? Put to the vote the euro would never have happened at all. People would just have voted against it, not because they are so well informed about the matter, but because they hate change. It would not have been worthwile even to think about such enterprise,
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Elwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 2002-01-24 23:30 Subject: [USMA:17625] Re: Fwd: Euro vs. Metrication (was: Thinning the list) > At 01:46 PM 1/24/2002 -0800, M R wrote: > >But common market could not be utilised fully without > >single currency and thus came the EURO. > > Obviously my first email on this topic was not clear. I do NOT have a > problem with the Euro per se. However, I do not think the method by which > it was imposed is a good model for metrication the USA. > > Jim Elwell > >
