Posted on 09/18/2016 6:14:17 AM PDT by detective
People don't even think of the American dollar much. Punch a few buttons on an ATM, and twenties appear from a drawer. We don't think much beyond what cash dollars in our pockets can buy at a particular moment. In reality, cash represents freedom – a simple freedom that millions of people around the world don't enjoy while we take it for granted.
Russian philosopher Fyodor Dostoevsky in the 1800s said, "Money is coined liberty."
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Then they will restrict your personal freedom and take everything you possess.
Well unfortunately for them they are being outflanked and are on the verge of having what they are planning about to happen to themselves.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Hah! I’ve outfoxed them by becoming (as Hellery would say) dead broke!
Using cash supports Personal Liberty.
The requisite "Europe is much more advanced than America when it comes to that stuff," was uttered. Of course! Europeans have always been more willing to surrender their freedom than Americans.
The day will come when they will turn off your cards if you run afoul of the makers and shapers of reality.
Dostoevsky had more truth in that statement than the article is able to acknowledge. The root truth is in the word “coin” because that is what the Constitution authorizes, not paper/fiat “money.” The article wants to get us thinking of the dead tree and cotton rag notes dispensed by our favorite ATM as money. Not true, words mean things and the writers of the US Constitution were careful users of words.
A goverment big enough to give you everything you need is big enough to take everything you have.
I always felt that a cashless society was what the government wanted as they then controlled the amount you had, knew where it went and was able to TAX IT with no “hidden income”.
I’ve known people in expensive California who worked two jobs. One on the books for tax purposes, and one off the books for survival there.
Serfs get bundles of clothing and supplies from the lord. People with money can buy freedom or leave and do what they want.
And they can shut down your ability to do almost anything by turning off your access to finances. Ask people who had the IRS seize their bank accounts because they deposited too many cash deposits.
Dostoevsky’s Russia was a society where silver rubles were trusted far more than paper currency.
Old Russian proverb: “A thousand in paper, or eight hundred in silver, and the cow is yours.”
"...so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name."
Yes, look what the US govt perpetrates on us now and we have guns. If we let them take the guns we are finished.
If the German populace was armed I doubt Merkel would be able to bring as much misery on them.
Washington’s Endgame: First Your Guns, Then Your Cash?
Total control is the name of the game. There are already voices of limiting the highest denomination to $ 10.00 bills........go figure......I did, and what I came up with is the smell of a dictatorship, for time being to make it more palatable for the ignorant public, camouflaged in a convoluted form of a democracy run and administered by a centralized group of crooks in DC. With one party about the same as the other, with their intentions being about the same except for the difference in the ways and means how to achieve it and in the speed to reach the target. Most everything is done under the guise of good intentions, how can anyone argue about that? There is only one catch and that’s were an age old adage comes in to play which in so many words states and never has failed “THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS” And unless the public wakes up, what is very doubtful, it will be a rough ride followed by a rude awakening.
More likely the government will confiscate your retirement savings and hold it for us in a “government trust”. That is take our money and give us an IOU just like they do with Social Security
It’s all about control through the currency. Ken Rogoff can bugger off.
I actually like the suggestions in a previous thread on this subject to put $500 and $1000 denominations back into circulation. They would be a good hedge against serious inflation.
PING!
Quite prescient.
You are correct, sir.
Then we will have a current day Venezuela and begin eating the dogs.
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