happy belated robin

a large portion of Canadian compainies have been sold to US investors in the past, its very rare to see a truely independant canadian corporation...since US investors own these corporations up here, In my mind, the US economy "should" drive the Canadian economy...in this backwards situation i have to only wonder how long this will last, as how much longer will Americans want to pay out larger sums of money into canadian wages...if a $12/hr CDN wage was only $8.00 US short while ago...now that wage is suddenly $13.20 US for the sake of the canadian economy I think we need to see a bounce back the other way...it doesnt matter to the investors if they are pulling in more coin its all about whats being paid out the other way....and the truely shitty thing, once the investors get used to higher sales figures in retail, i dread to see the prices skyrocket after the US dollar goes back the other way...like i said companies are already refusing to lower prices to accomodate our rising dollar.

and in other news...my dad gave me like $200US for my daughter when she was born I held onto it cuz the dollar had started to dip back then...now 3 years later its only gotten worse...i feel bad cuz it kinda was a bad gamble for me to take with her money when i got it it equaled nearly $300 cdn, now its like worth $180

forsberg...imo