I hope everyone will read Dave Ramsey’s comments about going cashless. It’s a two minute read. No one has explained it better. He brings up several situations I'd never considered.
I took this picture of my receipt in my beautiful town Kerrville Texas. I support this and I can see how this could affect our kids by having gaps in work ethic, financial literacy, and community connection.
Dave Ramsey repost:
HERE'S WHAT NO CASH ACTUALLY MEANS:
A cashless society means no cash. Zero. It doesn’t mean mostly cashless and you can still use a ‘wee bit of cash here & there’. Cashless means fully digital, fully traceable, fully controlled. I think those who support a cashless society aren’t fully aware of what they are asking for. A cashless society means:
* If you are struggling with your mortgage on a particular month, you can’t do an odd job to get you through.
* Your child can’t go & help the local farmer to earn a bit of summer cash.
* No more cash slipped into the hands of a child as a good luck charm or from their grandparent when going on holidays.
* No more money in birthday cards.
* No more piggy banks for your child to collect pocket money & to learn about the value of earning.
* No more cash for a rainy day fund or for that something special you have been putting $20 a week away for.
* No more little jobs on the side because your wages barely cover the bills or put food on the table.
* No more charity collections.
* No more selling bits & pieces from your home that you no longer want/need for a bit of cash in return.
* No more cash gifts from relatives or loved ones.
What a cashless society does guarantee:
* Banks have full control of every single penny you own.
* Every transaction you make is recorded.
* All your movements & actions are traceable.
* Access to your money can be blocked at the click of a button when/if banks need ‘clarification’ from you which will take about 3 weeks, a thousand questions answered & five thousand passwords.
* You will have no choice but to declare & be taxed on every dollar in your possession.
* The government WILL decide what you can & cannot purchase.
* If your transactions are deemed in any way questionable, by those who create the questions, your money will be frozen, ‘for your own good’.
Forget about cash being dirty. Stop being so easily led. Cash has been around for a very, very, very long time & it gives you control over how you trade with the world. It gives you independence.
If you are a customer, pay with cash. If you are a shop owner, remove those ridiculous signs that ask people to pay by card. Cash is a legal tender, it is our right to pay with cash. Banks are making it increasingly difficult to lodge cash.
Please open your eyes. Please stop believing everything you are being told. Almost every single topic in today’s world is tainted with corruption & hidden agendas.
Pay with cash & please say no to a cashless society while you still have the choice.
Imagine for a moment that your heart stopped.
You wake up 3 days later in hospital.
You’re recovering in hospital for the next 3 weeks, but stories of your death start to pop up on the news.
….and not once does any staffer “hey, you should make a statement!”
MEANWHILE:
-Your wife is in China
-Your daughter deletes her Twitter account
-Journalists hound your staffers.
Maybe you look rough.
Maybe you can’t even speak.
But not a tweet?
Not a written statement attributed to your name, that some staffer wrote?
Instead only a “statement from your office”
Why?
If you’re awake and recovering in a bed, why no statement on the rumors of your own death, which staffers have surely seen now?
Unless you are unable to.
And no matter why you are unable to…
…it means you are also unfit to serve.
Iran would be a far better ally for the United States than Israel.
Iran produces oil, technology and food.
Israel produces nothing besides rape and degeneracy.
USS Liberty survivor Phil Tourney burns the Israeli flag on July 4th and endorses Thomas Massie for president in 2028.
"I burn this evil flag on the Fourth of July."
"I also call out all the Zionist members of Congress and senators."
"You're supposed to fight for this country, not Israel."
The Israel lobby game Mitch McConnell $2M over his career. They also spent $32M to get rid of Massie in the house. If McConnell is deceased we could end up with Massie moving from the house to the senate and the Israel lobby having wasted $34M
Now THAT would be independence day
Tom, just end H-1B and OPT. Cut the J-1 visa program and let young Americans work the ski slopes like they used to. You know, young Americans first.
So dumb.
ID's for internet just passed the House. Merging pentagon with the IDF just passed the Senate. Supreme Court says all 8 billion people in the world are Americans AND white men still have to pay 85% of the taxes. (GOP controls all 3 branches)
But men cant play in the WNBA now.
If a rando nurse practitioner can bilk our government for nearly a billion dollars, I think it’s safe to say we’ve probably lost trillions over the lifespan of these social welfare programs.
In that case, American taxpayer money should stop being used to bribe Egypt to play nice with Israel. If the Israelis are already plotting war in Egypt in 15 years, let's just save our money and see how that plays out.
A good friend once informed me that my colleagues in DC were playing checkers, not chess.
My late wife Rhonda, who had met these politicians on several occasions, corrected him,
“they’re chewing on the checkers and arguing about which tastes better… red or black.”
So true.
For the MOU to hold and result in a lasting peace, we must restrict aid to Israel immediately & make it clear that we will not defend them should Iran opt to strike in response to Israel’s attacks in Lebanon.
Israel has not responded to our verbal & written demands—that is not going to change, unless we change it by taking action.
Israel claims sovereignty & continues to threaten our peace deal, yet they rely on us to bail them out. This is calculated.
We have to respond accordingly and stop this cycle once and for all.
Lead with action: remove their leverage, otherwise they will not take us seriously.
An open SOH & peace in the region have to be our focus. Israel is playing spoiler—we must limit their ability to do so.
Trump says Lebanon is included in peace deal and Israel has to withdraw from southern Lebanon. Netanyahu says they won't do that. They will continue to attack in Lebanon, Gaza and Syria. The answer is obvious - cut them off. Not another dollar. Why would we pay them to defy us?
This statement is only true if Israel can do it on their own. As of now, they cannot and they are not.
Currently, Israel is only able to take action with our support and our resources—because of this, we should be calling the shots.
We aren’t, and that’s the crux of the issue.
If I was giving someone over 3 billion dollars a year, and I told them not to do something, and they went ahead and did it anyway, I would simply stop giving them over 3 billion dollars every year.
Anyone else notice that when a bill is beneficial to US, it takes hearing after hearing and infinite committee meetings to maybe pass the house
But when it's for Israel or Ukraine, it's passed before any of us even knew there was a bill
So under full Republican control, the Republican controlled Senate can’t pass the Save America Act for election integrity, the House just passed a bill giving another $9 billion to Ukraine, Republicans are planning to merge our military with Israel’s military while Trump has us in another foreign war that’s costing $2 billion a day and has driven gas over $4.50, and not a single person has been held accountable for the pedo Epstein files.
The United States of America is a sovereign nation.
Section 224 of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act must be removed.
Our military should not be integrated in any capacity with a foreign country’s military.
Nor should we be funding it.