I’d like to extend my heartfelt and genuine thanks to the President of the United States. He’s fast becoming my new best friend and if I see him, I seriously am going to give him a big ol’ “God Bless America” hug.

You see ‘Boy George’ has been putting loads of money in my pocket lately, sadly at the expense of American tourists to Europe, but hey, who cares about them! No, you see in the style of the Bush administrations ‘Lets look after ourselves and f**k everyone else in the world’ attitude, I am embracing the Presidents generosity toward me.

You see thanks to the fact that Boy George has been driving the US economy into the ground the US Dollar is now worth less in the money market than it has been worth for years. Bad news for Americans of course, but hey, great news for me!

It seems that in an effort to try and revive the US economy, Bush and the boys have made noises about imposing more of those punitive tariffs on foreign goods, this time on goods from China (rather than the punitive tariffs placed on Steel – a tariff that was recently ruled against by the World Trade Organisation). This in turn raised fear of trade war, and concerns that countries such as China will slow down trading with America yet further, thus not helping America shift its trade deficit.

All of this is good news for me because it means that when I am in America again (in a couple of weeks) my Pounds will go even further than they usually do with the very real possibility that one Pound will buy me two dollars! This means mega-deals for me. For example, I planned to buy an iPodphoto in Oregon (tax free). In the UK it would cost £450, but in America I’ll be able to buy that today for the equivalent of just £309! I was planning on buying a Canon s70 digital camera that I need for work, that will cost me less than half price in Oregon at todays exchange rate and with American prices being that much lower than here (plus we pay 17.5% sales tax here!).

So it’s happy days for me. Now if only I could import Gas at American pump prices that would be great! But for now I am happy to bail Bush out and do my bit to help Americas ailing economy. Of course it does mean that any Americans planning on visiting the UK or Europe are in for an even worse shock when they change their money into Pounds or Euros. I guess that won’t help our tourist industry, but as Boy George keeps banging on about his “War on tourism” what did we expect.

What’s that you say? It’s not a War on Tourism? It a War on Terrorism? Oh, sorry we misunderstood, it must have been his accent.