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.
@RyanJamesShaw@avivafashion11 From the patient's perspective.
My doctor is late for his first appointment of the day. I see him arrive after the scheduled time and then have to wait a further 15-20 minutes until he decides to call me - his first patient.
@TexasCowgrl1111 That's nothing.
In Canada the govt plans to tax realised property gains. So the theoretical increase in the value of your house will be treated as income for tax purposes.
@FedUpInTheMid@Saffron_Sniper1 Stalin was planning an attack on Germany. Pre-empting it was the right decision. Allowing the BEF to escape instead of using its defeat to enforce a British peace or surrender was the mistake.
@AgentShitski@Saffron_Sniper1 Agreed.
Also, don't declare war on the US. Then, with Britain defeated, there would be no fighting on two fronts and the Bolsheviks would have been defeated.
@Clever_Blender@Terence4610@LichTamara@LaurieSimpson Under that rationale I assume that freezing bank accounts can be interpreted as an 'economic order'; although I doubt that it fits the original meaning of the phrase.
@SatireSquadHQ Two observations:
1) Polls are bullshit, designed to reinforce the govt narrative du jour.
2) Anybody who believes Trump is to blame for Canada's economy is an idiot.
In 1902, the town of Windsor had 26 bakers, 22 butchers, 14 dairymen, 10 fishmongers, 27 greengrocers, and 33 grocers on a single high street.
A total of 132 food shops. Most of them owner-operated. Most of them selling produce, meat, fish, and dairy that had been grown, raised, caught, or milked within fifteen miles of the shop door.
In 1950, independent grocers still sold 54% of all food in Britain. Alfred Roberts, father of Margaret Thatcher, ran one of them in Grantham.
Resale Price Maintenance, the legal arrangement that had protected small shops from being undercut by large ones, was abolished in 1964. By 1969, there were 3,400 supermarkets in Britain. By 1990, the butcher, the baker, the greengrocer, and the fishmonger had been shut down on roughly every high street in the country.
Windsor in 2006 had one butcher, zero dairymen, zero fishmongers, and a Waitrose.
The food did not become unavailable. The food became centralised.
The butcher who hung beef for 28 days was replaced by a plastic tray in refrigerated aisle 7, containing beef vacuum-packed on the day of slaughter and driven 400 miles to the distribution centre.
The fishmonger who told you what had come in on the morning boat was replaced by a frozen fillet from a factory in Vietnam reassembling fish caught by a Chinese trawler off the coast of Namibia.
The baker who made bread with three ingredients was replaced by a "bake-off" counter where frozen dough is warmed at 6am to smell vaguely like a bakery.
The food is cheaper now. The food is also worse.
We are being told the first fact as though it cancels out the second.
@Phanoulaurent@ChenuFlorent You clearly didn't read the Pfizer and Moderna clinical trials. Both showed an ARR of around 1%.
I think you will probably agree that that proves that they couldn't have 'worked'. Unless their purpose was something else entirely......
@Frost7@eagleeye2805 Chain Weitzman to Churchill on jews getting the US into WWII: "We've done it once [WWI] and we can do it again."
Churchill wanted the US in the war but so did Roosevelt. So he manipulated Japan into a situation where they had to attack to survive.
Do some research.
@JeffKnolls@Martyupnorth Very many 'suddenly and unexpectedly' are. Getting any mRNA jab is playing Russian roulette. One day the chamber will have a bullet in it.