Greetings to everyone, South and North of the 49th parallel;
Well, here we are in Canada, entertaining a couple of Royals, Charlie Boy & his betrothed, Duchess Camilla. This is costing Canadian Taxpayers only 1 million dollars per day and they are here for 12 days, WOWEE!!
They are in Vancouver, B.C. today and will spend 3 days here, not sure what for, although today, they will be inspecting the Athletes Village, the newly built 1.3 billion dollar housing complex. The Olympic Vanoc Group will be housing 12,000 athletes and their assistants in these luxurious units for about 3 - 4 weeks and the street people will still be sleeping in ally's and garbage bins, even in the bushes in Stanley Park.
So far, costs for the 2010 Winter Olympics are about 7 billion dollars and this is not the end yet. Security alone will be just under 1 million dollars and this now involves some of the secret security planes from the U.S. Airforce.

According to our government sources, our economy is improving, yet we are going further into debt and last month there were 23,000 more people layed off, just in the Vancouver area.
So, we must be improving in great strides to go down hill, aren't we lucky.

Gee, I did not want this marvelous information give you any heart burns, but just so you are aware of our Canadian achievments and what we have to look forward to.

Best Regards and keep your chins up and smile and be happy.
Uncle Bill