2002-09-04 How much of a backlash is there and how does this backlash manifest itself? Let's face facts, one has to use euros to buy and sell, there is no choice.
Who cares if some people convert back to guilders, as long as the prices are posted in Euros only and the headache is on them who make the back conversions. The same logic must hold true with conversion to SI. Some will try and back convert, but let them. It is an inconvenience to them who do it, not to those that adjust. The costs and the raising of prices is the same scare tactics used by metric opponents to scare the public into becoming opponents too. What proof is there of prices being raised? Or that prices are raised due to the Euro and not other economic factors? How much of a price rise is there? It is very infantile to get upset if a price is rounded up to the nearest cent instead of rounding down. Also, how many items have dropped in price? The appreciation of the Euro on world markets actually brings prices down. Is this happening, and how is it being reported? All in all, it will take a few years before the memory of the old currency begins to fade. Just as it will take a few years for the memory of old units to fade. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2002-09-04 02:35 Subject: [USMA:22078] RE: Spanish dollar > Too bad that I have to report that there is a backlash against the euro here > as it is blamed for price rises and most people continue to convert > everything back to guilders. I hope that this stupid backlash will ebb off > soon. > And there is the folly of an Italian proposal to introduce a 1 euro > banknote. Two reasons are given, and I reject both. They claim that a bank > note will give a better insight of inflation to the people. I do not know > how. The second reason is, that as the US ha a one dollar note, we should > have a 1 euro note. Let's go develop that notion a bit further: as the USA > uses ifp, the EU should also use it. > > BTW: that stuff about a price of .25 cents was hilarious! > > Han > >
