loomixguy said:In the Philippines, if you were exchanging US Dollars for pesos (aka pissos), you always got a good screwing at a bank or other government approved place of exchange. We always exchanged on the black market...you generally got almost 10% more pissos for your dollars that way.
Steve said:loomixguy said:In the Philippines, if you were exchanging US Dollars for pesos (aka pissos), you always got a good screwing at a bank or other government approved place of exchange. We always exchanged on the black market...you generally got almost 10% more pissos for your dollars that way.
It has been awhile, but the Philippines was the first place I experienced currency exchange... and a real barter system..
that experience had a steep learning curve... sure we had all the advice of those who had been there before.. but nothing could explain it better then getting ripped off at every "legal" turn of the buck...
within a day I learned a carton of Marlboro was worth more then a pocketful of pesos.. and that a dollar worth of pesos only went half as far as an actual dollar...
I enjoyed every trip there and learned a lifetime of experience in handling money in a few short port calls... thankfully it was mostly from hearing about other's mistakes...
Tom in TN said:I watched the entire video. Frankly, I'm not too sure how much of it is factual. What really bothered me though, was the last 10 minutes of the video.
In those minutes, they were espousing an anti-Christian, atheistic, Buddhistic, anti-nationalist philosophy. Their message seemed to be: All we need is love. We're not individuals, we're part of the universe. We shouldn't see ourselves as unique beings, rather, we're all part of each other. Among others, John Lennon, Martin Luther King, and some spokesman for Eastern Mysticism were held up as role models.
I also noticed in the main content that they were referring to the consummation of the North American Union, saying that it would be completed by 2008.
With the concluding thoughts, and the failed prediction about the North American Union (and the Amero) by 2008, I have some doubts about the preceding 38 minutes.
Who knows?
Tom in TN