Dawn of the Euro

[Scott Martens]

----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Robert Redmond <dredmond at efn.org>
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 1:54 AM
Subject: Dawn of the Euro

>Incredible. One of the truly sublime moments of world history; decades
>from now, each one of us can say, we were there at zero-hour, when the
>sorry shambles of the Pax Americana ended

God, I hope not.  I took out my first Euros just after midnight.  Drunk
people were lined up at ATM's to see if they worked.  Then I turned around
and spent my first Euro on beer at the nearest nachtwinkel.  If this was
going to be one of those moments I tell my grandchildren about, I'd have
tried to be more sober for it.

Scott Martens