Posts Tagged ‘cashless society’

• The Debt Ceiling, You’re In The Noose

  Date: 2011.07.23 | Category: Alternative Media | Response: 0

  

  The Debt Ceiling, You're In The Noose

  The recent developments on Wall Street point out the huge incompatibilities of government intrusion into private investments and the free market. The Federal Reserve can easily print huge amounts and issue an endless slew of Treasury bonds where the debt is conveniently sold to foreign entities that are more than willing to sell them off and avoid the eventual collapse of the American economy. How far can you raise a debt ceiling without devaluing the dollar? One of the sticking points of selling Treasury bonds to country such as China as they only have an economic relationship with us, not that they really care about American citizens. If they feel that they will receive no return on their Treasury bond investment, what prevents them from selling them off to another nation that we have issues with such as Iran or North Korea.

  What a horrible surprise for the U.S. Treasury having to honor the value of a mature Treasury note to a country that is testing nuclear weapons. President Ahmadinejad would be pleased as punch if the U.S. had to hand over several hundred billion dollars for a mature Treasury note that had passed through the hands of several enemy nations before having to pay off to Iran. Meanwhile the American citizen’s financial neck is in the noose that is attached to the rising debt ceiling as they stand on the melting value of the dollar.

• Taxes Be Gone

  Date: 2011.03.15 | Category: Alternative Media | Response: 0

  

  Taxes Be Gone

• The National Healthcare Hotline!

  Date: 2010.08.07 | Category: Alternative Media | Response: 1

  2014 is only 3 years away as the specter of national health care looms on the future of our horizon. During the course of my Internet research for this article I wasn’t able to find any specific mention in any blogs, newspaper articles, or videos regarding how a national health care system might impact emergency medical services.

  If you take into consideration that the Affordable Health Care for Americans Act is a byzantine 2,000 page document decipherable only by aliens and demoniacally possessed lawyers it is no small wonder that anyone would dare speculate on what would happen in the case of medical emergency.

  I also wanted to assure my readers that the cartoon is not meant to degrade the lifesaving work performed by the emergency medical service professionals but to merely paint a picture of how a smothering government  bureaucracy’s involvement might otherwise turn the courageous work of  these brave individuals into a bleak socialist nightmare.

• EBT Debit & Decadence

  Date: 2010.07.16 | Category: Alternative Media | Response: 2

  

  No Table Dances on EBT Debit

  Grab your wallet! If you don’t the state of California will. Those folks on public assistance wanting to spend their free time at the casino or strip club will not be able to withdraw cash on their EBT debit card at a majority of these establishments. The state is asking for voluntary compliance at these businesses to reject cash withdrawals on these EBT debit cards. In the eyes of the state these transactions are not considered essential for the basic survival of an individual or their family.

  Perhaps the general public that is not on public assistance thinks this is not a bad idea and in the short term it seems like a good thing. On the other hand the state and those salaried folks in our institutions of government are salivating at the chance to write some legislation to control this wasteful spending. They need a chance to justify their existence and look out for ‘the good of the people’. When this particular piece of legislation is ratified the general public will break out in a big hoorah and say good riddance to those scoundrels spending their hard earned tax dollars on a table dance or a pull on the slot machines. But we have such short memories.

  Then we fast forward to the future that will come sooner than we think. Then one day the goody two shoes media, eager to sniff out a story of government waste, will announce one day across our televisions and say, “Looky there! There’s that scoundrel that hasn’t paid his parking ticket and his library fines. He is not on public assistance. Surely he has the means to pay. What can our government do about this?” Then the cronies that infest our government institutions will look back and say, “We stopped those scoundrels on public assistance with their EBT cards. We can just amend that law to include those scoundrels not on public assistance that refuse to pay their parking tickets and library fines. We’ll make them pony up those fines before they decide to fill up their gas tank, buy groceries, or pay their rent. That will teach them a lesson. The banks will be go along we bailed them out.”

  This time there won’t be a big hoorah from the general public because they will suddenly be looking at their own debit cards and wondering where the money went.