Posted on 04/08/2014 6:52:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hmm.. some times the Net or the power is out and Paper (really cloth/paper) money still works. Oh and paying a lot of small things like say.. the neighbors kid to mow the lawn comes to mind as well.
No it is not “OUR GOVERNMENT” that is the source of the evil. The clowns in the White House are not “OUR GOVERNMENT” and they are bad people, low intelligence, poor impulse control, incompetent, corrupt, wasteful, greedy and just plain ugly.
-——you’re going to get a stripper to wear a card reader-—
It is called a Square and it plugs into an I phone. If you have Paypal, they provide one free.
It allows anyone to have a paypal account and acept credit cards via their I phone
Electronic money is easily stolen too, so the argument doesn’t hold water.
I do almost everything electronically. Little cash. Those credit card rewards add up.
I don’t care if the government can look at every transaction of mine. In fact, I invite them to take a look. They will be quickly bored.
I’ve wondered that since I first investigated how bitcoin works.
My first thought was - the gov’t could use this to track ALL transactions and ALL currency, its ownership and its transfer.
I think people like physical money. There’s nothing like the feeling of a wallet stuffed with Benjamins.
It used to be dollars. However, now it is Benjamin’s. In a while they will release the Cleveland’s to stuff your pockets with.
Let alone your wife seeing the CC transaction! lol
What is this honey? lol
When your cash is stolen you generally know it pretty quickly. When your account is drained electronically you may not know it for days. Plus your account (hopefully) has much more money in it than your wallet so the potential damage is greater.
Replace the dollar bill with coins. That would take the crap out of the system.
The dollar bill and penny are stupid.
If you think about how smart phones are used for QR scans, you could imagine someone considering those as being marked on the head (using the camera) and on the wrist ( some sort of RFID bracelet.)
If you watch the world as someone from 2,000 years ago, the world is an interesting place.
Monitor? They want total control.
I'll take 'dirty' money any day over someone like Lois Lerner of the IRS taking away my ability to purchase food for my family.... And yeah, the bitch would do that...
If she had the power.
Lois and her liberal elite thugs would decide 'currency cards' or marks on our right hands... would stop working for Tea Party members long enough to kill us off or make us suffer until we submit.
Revelation 13:16-17
King James Version
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
“Why do we still use paper money?: Easily stolen, filthy currency ought to be forsaken”
Because if the grid goes down, you’ll still be able to buy stuff (at least for a short time).
After Sandy, I was able to buy food all week while the grid was down. Even perishable food from stores running generators. Many people who didn’t have cash found out their credit and ATM cards were worthless.
“Kind of hard to feed strippers electronic money.”
They have paper “tokens” in some of these places. You charge your credit card and get a stack of their monopoly money to feed the strippers.
Guess it's been awhile.
Depends on where they put the reader.
About 2 years ago, Canada switched to plastic dollar bills.
Whoever picked out the materials was an idiot. They had people leaving wallets and purses in their cars in the summer, only to find that the money melted. I believe that they’ve fixed this minor annoyance since then though.
Electronics break down, and paper money still offers a little autonomy from banks and government, two entities that are becoming one. It helps remind us that we are still a little more than lab rats. And we like it, lots of it.
Forty years go I said that a paperless monetary system would be pushed just so the government could flush out all those who deal “under the table” to avoid taxes.
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