68Camaro wrote:Fiat or not, at least paper still works when the grid goes down... Then there are the privacy / control issues. In the name of various crises those manipulating the government want to take control of you, and the best way for them to do that is to control your fiat by forcing you to electronic, where you are perpetually watched in every transaction. With all electronic transactions, in a flash, without any approval required, by a stroke of a presidential decree (or less) they can now withhold, forbid, control, limit, manipulate anything you do for which you are not fully self-sufficient. Which is almost everything, as even if you own your own land they can force you to pay your real estate and other taxes electronically and force you to enter the electronic system in order to do that.
+10000........I could not have said it better.
and to Alex, yes, minding a cash business is a nightmare, because people you employ are thieves. I learned that lesson the hard way.
lets say in theory, in the previous decade, I brought a group of "friends", and yes some blood kin, a GOLDEN GOOSE, it was a legal business endeavor, and it made hundreds upon hundreds of thousand dollars every month.However, I, as the one of two chief bosses DID NOT want to see cash crossing the counter, so I had a card swiper brought in, which for the first two months I managed...but then given my ROLE in this endeavor, I could NOT be there at the counter, 24/7, therefore I had to depend on people who I knew for over 30 years, all who proclaimed their "love" and fidelity to me.....and these people, 95% of them stole TENS of thousands of dollars from me.
how?......maybe one of them instructed all the others, NOT to capture CC numbers to secure the "product", but to bring cash, and the only way I found this out, months later, was when ONE person, who had honor, told me of this. The person who made the instructions was fired immediately. (in a darker world, I wanted to TERMINATE them literally, but.."Thou shall not.....")
another person was brought in, same thing, 30 year "friendship", this person was much more clever, he ran the "books"....a guy who worked with me, as I was the chief "product"....prior to his new position had complained how hard his wife worked at her day job, and "oh what a struggle they had", etc..........4 months into his new position, this person suddenly had a brand new deck put on the back of his house, 4 months later....a brand new "rec room"....in 8 months I KNEW...sure I could have hired a forensic accountant, though this soulless thief, undoubtedly covered his tracks......and frankly I was weary of the whole enterprise, weary and disheartened...its a heavy load, when people you've known and loved for 30 years, take Judas 30 pieces of silver, to nail you to a Cross.....the 1st and 2nd quarters of 09 came, and people were terrified to spend for any product save shelter and food, our revenues cratered....and there it is. sorry I didn't go into real detail, but....this is the internet.
you're correct in a sense, the benefits of a CC swiper are there, and cash can be like water, just flow off the table and evaporate....BUT the BIG PICTURE says...its all about CONTROL. If people whom you've known for 30 years will steal and cheat and act without any honor, how do you think institutions, private, and/or "government" will act?
its all about CONTROL and TRUST, do YOU trust them when they control you?
and as far as gold and silver, what percentage of our fellow citizens own PM's to conduct fluid trade?......2%?....4%?
TRUST?....now I only trust God....i'm not Bible thumping on you, just telling you how I feel, and these days, I'll use fiat and judicially use CC's to buy "money" (tradeables) and that can run the gamut from PM's....or $100 FV bricks of nickels with their 40 $2 metal "bills", or cases of coffee, or, or , or ................
I hope you didn't take offense....and 68, again, well spake.n
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 6:15 pm
You presume too much.