On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 23:33:19 GMT, Dry wrote:

Don how do I say screw the French in French??

Don White wrote:

"NOYB" wrote in message
news . To our surprise, the market completely ignored Canada's admission to
underreporting US imports in
the month of November. If you recall, the US trade deficit widened to a
new
record in November. Such an error by Canada would mean that deficit was
much
narrower than expected. In fact the US Commerce Department said that the
Canadian error could add as much as 0.5% to US Q4 GDP, which could boost
Friday's release to 3.6%.
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***The original gap was probably accurate...we pretended to admit a mistake
as a deal with Bush...if he promised not to bully us on the missle defence
plan. ***

If you guys keep screwing with US economic data, the next time there's
another errant friendly-fire incident, it might happen just North of our
border...instead of in Afghanistan.


***Carefull,..with all the snowbirds in Florida this time of year, we could
arrange to send your Yankee butt back
to Jersey! :-) ***

Try, "Visser le français."

No guarantees thought.

John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes