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All I use is cash unless it's a big purchase...which is hardly ever...when they ask how I am paying I always say, "Oh, cash definitely, until they take it away from us which is soon." ALWAYS, the reaction is WHAT? ..and then I tell them how they want digital id and currency to track us like they already did during the pandemic....most are dumbfounded but curious and ask lots of questions...sometimes the person behind me in line chimes in, too......I usually say it loud enough for a few people to hear me and I know they all won't start using cash but some will or at least look into what I am saying.....I encourage them...also, I remind them o the frozen back accounts as I live in the once grate country of Canada.....

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Also living in Canada, and have always used cash except for a few bills that need to be paid electronically. I don't understand why so many people find it such trouble that they happily give away their data. Especially after the stunt Trudeau pulled.

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Trudeau and the government preventing private donations from reaching the peaceful protesters engaging in civil and legal protests against draconian lockdowns was a wakeup call for the whole world!

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Great strategy! I will copy your lead.

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Cash is King.

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A Dave Ramsey listener!

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Great article.

The massive intrusion on all normal expectations of personal privacy arising from cyber has to be dealt with by Congress.

The buying and selling of personal data for central compilation and use by insiders under classical common law principles should be held to be a breach of fiduciary duty.

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Thanks, I've been trying for a while now. Included your link on my thread about it:

https://patrick.net/post/1341082/2021-09-04-always-use-cash-from-now-on-not-credit?start=20#comment-1855907

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Hey Patrick--thanks! great thread~

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I have been using cash more often in the last few years, not 100% of the time but often. I will do better as there is no reason not to other than laziness.

I was at a Mexican place recently that did not have a POS system that automatically told the employee how much change to give me when I used cash. So that was interesting to watch. I have also gotten bugged eyed looks when I whipped cash out at smaller places. Those reactions are my 2nd favorite reasons for using cash.

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Such a good and useful piece. Thanks all-around!

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"the slingshot capable of downing the globalist" YES! I'll do my part! Actually as a Dave Ramsey listener I have had my envelopes of cash for years. Don't overspend, can't track. Even when I donate to a cause...no go fund or whatever I ask for a physical address to mail a check to. AND small town banks are the best!

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Question: What if the State simply pulls the legal tender? One could no longer use the same cash currency...

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According to Catherine Austin Fitts, if enough cash is being used and in circulation it can't be "cancelled" -- it becomes too essential. That is the whole idea; we are protecting cash from being cancelled by using it, keeping it in circulation in a quantity that makes it impossible to cancel. As a bonus, you protect the privacy of your purchase every time you break out dollars and coins instead of a shiny credit card.

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The Fed declaring that "digital currency is not going to replace physical cash" sounds like a campaign promise to me. Campaign promises have a truly dismal record.

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Hopefully they would soften us up first David or we would rebel big time. Propaganda convincing the majority that’s it’s a great idea. Meanwhile we can be pushing back, hoping to make a difference with our defiance of using cash. The idea could grow to more than 10% of population. 🤷‍♀️💵💵💵

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This is an interesting site (not trying to sell you anything). A few states are using goldbacks as alternate legal currency. Might catch on, and I don't think it'd have to be gold. But at least it's not government-controlled. What else might be acceptable as money?

https://goldback.com/

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My understanding is anything that has "value" might be able to be used in a barter or trade situation. That would include a kind of item that is in demand because there is a shortage of the type of item. For example, during the first few months of lockdown one could probably trade cases of toilet paper for something you want because toilet paper was so scarce..

During a severe shortage of food one could probably barter long term storage food if you had extra. I have heard ammunition can be used for barter.

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Here are suggestions from my 2005 book, To Prevent the Next " '9/11' ", part of 2008/s The World Is Turning ... and available for free and for download online. Credit unions, community-currencies and barter are other alternatives to World Enslavement Forum devices for Credit.

https://www.ur1light.com/the-world-is-turning

We can also can make changes on our own at local levels.

Credit unions are one way to step away from Banks.

Credit unions can arise from the pooled resources of any

community, whether the community is from a neighborhood or from

a grouping of working-people or from a combinations

of groupings from neighborhodds and working-people.

Community currencies are an even bigger step for groups

to achieve financial independence.

Community currencies substitute local means of exchange for State

money. During the 1930s Depression more than 1900 local

currencies arose in the U. S. Now--after the so-called " 'dot.com' "

Bust of 1999-2001--more than 1900 local currencies are being

exchanged in different places around the world.

Ithaca's 'Hours' are exchanged within a 50-mile radius of this town

in upstate New York. Alain Pilote writes: 'Over 1,000 goods and

services are available for purchase with Ithaca Hours, and they are

accepted in some 250 businesses throughout the area. Since 1991,

over $60,000 of local paper money has been issued, causing

2,000,000 of local trading to be added to the "Grassroots National

Product".' (76)

In Minneapolis, Minnesota 'Community Hero Cards' have been

exchanged instead of U. S. dollars since 1998. In Austin, Texas

'Liberty Dollars' have begun to circulate.

In Japan, following a 1999 TV documentary about the Swiss writer

Michael Ende, more than 100 communities have begun to use each's

own form of debt-free money; more than 500,000 Earthday bills

have changed hands in Tokyo's Shibuya district alone.

Barter is spreading via the Internet. Barter News estimated 1997's

trade in barter to be $650 billion. Websites engaging in trade without

the use of commercial Banks' money are proliferating.

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I like the idea of local currencies a lot - and in the US it's completely legal to do that. I think the selling point to businesses is that with a local currency, they get to keep all of the currency and won't have to pay the credit card fees. The problem will be selling everyday people on the idea.

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Part of the hygiene theater has been to make payment “contactless” so that cash seems “dirty.” How convenient.

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I suspect that "contactless" promotion during the pandemic was deliberate. There is that concept of "nudge" which is a means of pushing a person in increments or gently toward a "better option" to "promote a more preferred behavior rather than obstruct it." So you are being moved bit by bit away from your habitual routine toward a different habit considered better. A nudge is something much more subtle than regulation and one may not even realize one is being manipulated. If it is made to be fun all the better.

https://behavioralpolicy.org/what-is-nudging/

For example, If we were all told to wear a GPS tracker we would probably resent it and rebel. But almost all of us (at least adults and teens) are carrying a GPS tracker on our person-- as this is in every cell phone.

Another example is if we were all told to strap on a biometric reader we would refuse. But many of us wear biometric readers that are also watches...measuring our pulse rate, movements, ECG, and other basics.

Those are examples of nudges, intentional or accidental, toward connecting biometric data and more to Big Data.

The pandemic, and all the propaganda about contagion from money, doorknobs, shopping bags, etc would be used to nudge us in directions that were desirable to those pulling the pandemic levers. Getting us to think of money as dirty pushes us toward digital. A convenient coincidence if one believes in such things. There was lots of talk from the Great Reset crowd about taking advantage of the pandemic crisis to advance the Great Reset.

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Yes. "Never let a good crisis go to waste."

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About six months ago I just decided to withdraw a whole bunch of cash from my bank account and I just use cash for everything these days it’s so much easier in my opinion and it makes me feel legit... I guess what I never get any surprises on my credit card bills!

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I guess I'm dense. I'm all for it, because if nothing else me having cash in my wallet means the bank doesn't have control over it, but I don't understand how this will keep "them" from being able to demand we have digital currency. Yes, I read the entire article and I somewhat understand the theory, but just not the whole picture. Would someone please help me understand?

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Hi Bandit I'm asking for some finance help to clarify this further~

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Sure, ya'll drive on over and I'll chip in $10.

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How to demand that we accept digital currency? Start by requiring Social Security recipients to have a CBDC account for more "efficient" distribution of benefits. Next, require such an account for tax refunds. Next, let the economy crash (it's going to anyway) then "save the day" with a Universal Basic Income program. Want your UBI income? Get a CBDC account. And so on.

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Social Security already demands direct deposit. The IRS prefers that you get direct deposit, so your tax check doesn't get stolen. --- Then we will not be allowed to have actual cash to withdraw from the bank. --- I still don't get how paying with cash will stop this scenario. If you withdraw too much cash from the bank now, the IRS comes after you, wanting to know why.

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Ginger here. My understanding from Catherine Austin Fitts is that one should pay with cash as much as is possible, and that a percentage of paying with cash will have an impact and protect cash as a means of payment. After all, if we all just use digital funds in the form of credit, debit cards and apple wallets we are by default locking ourselves into a digital system. Pretty silly to hand the jailers the keys to our enslavement. So I use cash as much as possible.

Plus, using cash at all your local merchants is better for your merchants. they don't have to pay the 3% or more merchants fees for running your credit card!

Separately, check with your bank about the level at which they have to report withdrawals to make sure but my bank told me, $10,000 withdrawals and above need to be reported by the banks.

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Let's say we all use digital funds and very little cash. I can see how that would make it easier for the government to eliminate the use of cash. But I don't see how it "locks us in".

Now let's say some significant proportion of transactions are done with cash. I don't see how that prevents a determined government from using a series of steps (such as those I described above) to eventually eliminate cash. But I DO see how an attempt to remove cash starting from such a position would rile up the public more than the government would like.

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Yes, 10k is the amount they HAVE to report, but the banks don't want you removing "your" money, because it cuts into their funds. Who's to say what they would do to keep you from withdrawing funds. (This is not a new belief for me, I have never trusted banks, since I was a child. They are only a necessary evil.)

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Yes, I put "efficient" in quotes because it's from their point of view, not ours. No maintenance needed when people change their primary bank accounts, etc, thus saving taxpayer dollars. And I agree, the tactical advantage of a cash-only program is not obvious.

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To me, cash only, would only work if you kept a negligible amount in your account. But, the bank, with government backing, in my opinion, could just close your account, and then what? No direct deposit. No way to cash a check from an employer. And...we're back to square one, with having to have the crappy government digital account and funds.

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Dear Bandit: NOT "cash only" ---- it is "cash as much as possible every day"

cash for

your coffee

your dining out

your groceries

your gasoline

your hardware store needs

bird seed

local doctor's bill

veterinary bills

gift store items

prescriptions from pharmacy

baby sitters

yard work guys

handyman

cash presents instead of gift cards

and so forth.

We are at a make/break point in our lives and the lives of humanity. There are no guarantees but we must try everyway we can, legally to forestall the chains of digital slavery.

#CashEveryDay is one way we can declare every day that we will not go silently into this dark night.

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what is the best way to make international transfers?

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I'm asking for help on this question Stephen--

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