Posted on 08/31/2024 3:50:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Dystopia lies ahead.
Imagine life in the near future. A man resides alone in a tiny apartment. He would prefer to be married, but the State considers that antiquated institution “patriarchal” and “white supremacist.” He would prefer to have children, but he can’t afford them. Besides, his yearly carbon allowance is insufficient to cover another resource-wasting human being.
He has never owned anything. He rents his bedroom, his furnishings, and his meager entertainments. Each month, a digital account associated with his digital ID receives a number of central bank digital currency units. How much he receives depends upon the number of hours he works at his government job, how much the government values his work, how much the government taxes him for the privilege of using public infrastructure, and how much of his income the government decides should be redistributed to other citizens in need. After taxes, rents, utilities, and other assorted municipal, state, federal, and international fees are deducted from his earnings, he has little — if any — discretionary income.
If he chooses to save that income to invest in his future, the government informs him that his central bank digital currency units disappear within ninety days. If he tries to purchase something that the government has banned, he forfeits what he currently has. If he does something that the government deems contrary to his well-being, his social credit score decreases, and a fraction of his discretionary income disappears. Every few weeks, a digital doctor (running on artificial intelligence) appears on the video screen in his apartment with a detailed list of all the “unhealthy” things he has done since their last interaction. He is informed that a portion of his temporary savings will be redistributed to citizens with healthier habits. His A.I. health monitor tells him...
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A frightening prediction.
Yes. There will be no place to go, except to the grave.
I’d prefer nuclear war where the strong survive, global elitist are annihilated along with most governments and earth gets a do over.
The Ross Perot/Pat Buchanan movements of the early 1990s tried very hard to convince America that the Bush/Clinton Free Trade effort was destructive. The GOP was our biggest obstacle.
Both parties are Globalist Parties and have been for decades.
The minor difference between them is Socialism and Socialism lite.
I’d rather have the rapture happen.
“Both parties are Globalist Parties and have been for decades.
The minor difference between them is Socialism and Socialism lite.”
They are the exact same. They both work for the same global masters. This is much much bigger than left or right. They are just different arms of the same global beast hell bent on controlling the world.
1. The end of domestic slavery.
2. Excessive government regulation that drives up the cost of doing business here in the U.S.
“I’d prefer nuclear war where the strong survive, global elitist are annihilated along with most governments and earth gets a do over.”
Everything happens because the circumstances at the time make whatever happens probable. If the American Revolution had happened earlier or later then the resulting government might have been vastly different. Shaking up the game board and starting over would come with its own challenges and it’s unlikely we’ll end up on the other side better off. The circumstances after a modern war will be horrible.
When things go to Hell everyone tends to coalesce under one strong leader and in a future with no courts and no institutions it’s hard to see how that individual won’t establish a kingdom and rule as an all-powerful monarch. I’d rather work around the edges with the institutions we have to get an improvement here or there than start all over with a couple billion casualties.
Hopefully we get a strong leader in Trump, and we can concentrate on pulling the fangs out of the government which has morphed into an economic Dracula. I listened to a property developer who said sixteen percent of his overall costs were just in compliance with rules regulations and paying fees. That sixteen percent government overhead is probably hidden inside every service and product we use. Get rid of that and suddenly paychecks go further, and houses and cars become affordable. That’s much better than brushing off the fallout and trying to figure out how to farm.
Speculative drivel extrapolated beyond reason
Just for the record, in what city and state did the referenced property developer develop?
CBDC is the mechanism to forge the chains of slavery world wide.
Who is behind it?
Central Banks: The use of Sovergien Immunities & Secrecy to Engineer a Global Coup (Catherine Austin Fitts, Bevrijding van Bedrog, Oct 2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0YW81RA26I
Bank of International Settlement
(note: they have just about expunged some of the earlier and easier to understand works by Catherine Austin Fitts. They will get around to this one. Although this one is a bit more direct than past comments.)
Tallahassee Florida. And I was building a detached garage in Tallahassee. I’d bought plans off the internet that were guaranteed compliant. The Permitting officer told me he didn’t like the format the plans were on, and he wanted them on a different format. No changes. Just copied over to a different style page. That cost me WAY more than the plans had initially cost. Then, he wanted a structural analysis for wind loading. I pointed out they were already analyzed with a certificate. He wanted the certificate from a local engineer. Another two grand. I went to his boss who I had interviewed for several articles. The boss said he had to back up his employees. Finally, I asked the permitting guy why he was making this so hard. He leaned forward until our noses almost touched and said, “Because YOU are stealing food from a contractor’s mouth.” What it came down to was he was an asshole, and I had zero recourse. Power is no fun if you don’t use it.
The husband of a woman I worked with built shopping centers. He refused to work in Leon County, the county with Tallahassee in it, because of just such issues. Nothing they did was illegal. They were just sending work to people they knew who probably picked up their bar tabs or gave them an envelope stuffed with cash.
When I sat in the waiting room the anger from the people also waiting was palpable.
Don’t give up hope.
For 5 years there have been over a million firearms purchased in the USA. Not a single month below a million.
Nobody told those people to buy them, in fact the government discourage it.
The public is NOT BLIND.
And I agree with you about the cost of regulation that is unnecessary.
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