Posted on 03/29/2015 6:44:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I have zero problem with cashless society as long as they keep it as a card or even using the phone like Apple Pay which is really a cool way to purchase things and I will enjoy it even more when it expands. However, I am VERY leary about the mark that they may eventually put on our body that we will have to take in order to make any purchases. I am not sure if that is what the Bible was talking about but if that ever becomes reality, I am going to have to think long and hard about getting it. The good news is that I am 45 so I don’t think it would even become reality until I am 65 and typically there is a time before it goes 100 percent so maybe I will be dead before it is mandatory....lol.
The Feds DID deny knowing anything about them, or they DIDN'T deny knowing about them?
Don’t keep much money in the bank. Its not like you get any interest on it. buy gold and junk silver.
Sooner or later the banks and/or govt is coming to give you the big haircut anyway. Just like Cyprus. Its going to come here too.
I wasn’t there when they asked but we did not get an answer and the people there could not tell if the local guys knew anything are not. I know that the feds have ways of testing money that is not available to the banks. This was ten years ago.
You really don't understand "structuring", do you?
And it's "border". Boarder is a tenant.
As ThomasThomas posted in a reply to me, the Fedthugs were able to track currency in a manner not available to the banks TEN YEARS AGO.
Trust me - they've been busy since.
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You, and Freepers like you, are one of my favorite things about FR.
Thank you for your continued wisdom and inspiration, not just that comment but over time!
I guess they are just going to have to arrest me. I am a cash and carry type of guy.
I notice that "vote fraud" is an interest of yours.
Contemplate, if you will, the conundrum of Scott Walker's June 2012 recall election victory against the Obama 2012 campaign's raking-in of Wisconsin's electoral votes a mere 4 months later, and tell me there's no stinking, rotted corpses of vote fraud there.
“duh”
This is going to create a wealth gap and income disparity as they stifle up and coming gangsta’s in favor for the older more influential 2nd generation International Organized Crime syndicate people. OIC is their TLA.
Of course, for anyone outside reading this, I must make clear:
Voting at a national level should NOT be a very important thing if orthodox American government is working right!
Most things are fixed by the constitution, right, and we have our 9th and 10th amendments, right?
And we certainly have unalienable rights that cannot be negated by votes, right?
So why does it matter when cheaters prevail?
Because not only do they win illegitimately, but they then act illegally!
Only when voting promotes unconstitutional, unlawful acts does voting become much of an issue. No one even tries to buy votes when government is properly limited!
But we all just try to fight the bad guys by voting against them, as though the thing we oppose had any legitimacy in the first place.
But in a war, we have to grab any advantage we can get on the field we are stuck with. That’s why it’s called a war. So we try to get rid of voter fraud as just one aspect of battling to retain the limited government that is still the law of our land despite so many ignoring it.
Avoid war. Pray and work to limit government peacefully while we still can.
Did anyone ever read Margret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale?” I read it about 25 years ago, but remember that one of the things they did was get rid of all cash and put everything on a debit card. (This was written before there were even debit cards yet.) that was so the government could seize all of the women’s assets. Of course, the government in this Liberal author’s wet dream was a conservative Christian dictatorship that used women for breeding. Sort of like the Muslims do in real life.
Lobbied heavily by the credit card companies that get 2% on ever transaction.
Some people have speculated that the real worldwide SHTF scenario is a banking/government money crisis. Consider the following:
1. I believe I remember reading an article that stated that banks can claim that all funds deposited with the bank are actually the banks property now and that depositors are now considered to be ‘investors’ and as such are last to claim any money from the bank if it fails.
2. European banks have proven that money on their books belongs to the banks and not the depositors. Remember Cypress? The depositors took a real ‘haircut’ if they had deposits over a certain valuation. If I recall correctly that was instituted by their government as they needed the money. That banking logic is going worldwide now.
3. Also consider that Cash is a form of ‘private property’. Where some people don’t understand the concept of ‘private property’ when it comes to real-estate or cars or anything else that’s tangible because they don’t have any vested interest in those things. They DO understand cash though either bills and coins or as EBT cards. Take away their cash or cards and they’ll get the concept of ‘private property’ really quick after that.
Consider that if there is a ‘cashless’ society imposed on all of us and one morning you woke up and all your ‘money’ was now half of what it was before you went to bed but the prices in the stores remained the same. How would you ‘feel’? Well I believe that a great many people would feel rage and start looting and burning.
If enough of that occurs then the society collapses and the Government has two real choices. Declare martial law and attempt to take control of the situation. Or... let it just burn itself out and wait until the population is decreased to more ‘manageable’ levels.
Assuming of course that the ‘government’ can keep control of it’s own forces as those members see their families both close and extended being destroyed by the situation.
In the long-run though, cash or as some say ‘fiat money’ is just a more portable way of doing barter. When the full trust of the Government and Central Bank is crashing and burning there will still be barter to fall back on.
My position is that if the government, IRS or anybody, doesn’t want you to use cash, then quit printing the damn stuff.
Another reason for a cashless society is to condition it’s people to accept virtual credits. And to make a long story short, will allow a government to use as many credits as it wishes to support it’s economy without consequence. Utopia.
Mark of the Beast coming very soon!
Call on Jesus today—it’s your only Hope!
A crappy law, designed to exert more government control over the People, is a crappy law all the same, no matter how “legal” it is. Next, they might start ticketing cars with over 300 horsepower because they are going slower than they can and might be hiding something - sounds like it doesn’t equate, but at the core principle of the matter, it equates perfectly.
You notice that everywhere, the cashiers are marking up $20 dollar bills with their little testing markers?
I have thought often that this is strange/funny as any 20.00 bill has metal strip- which as far as I know cannot be forged.
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