The idea of a parallel economy has been around for some time now. People talk about it, but it’s like Mark Twain’s comment about the weather: “Everybody talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.” There have been some who’ve gone the extra step of actually trying. I think Torba of Gab.com is doing something, but you have to join Gab, become a supporter of it, to use it and if you ask me, that’s not helping the situation, but taking advantage of the situation, so I’ve demurred. There’s Public Square, which I started to join to get 12 Round Productions into the parallel economy, but they just wanted too much interaction right off the bat and I backed away. Let me see how it works a little bit before I’m expected to divulge all sorts of information. As we have been enslaved by the demand for information, some people should be more sensitive about how much they ask for as complete strangers, in my opinion.
Yet, even states are starting to recognize the need for a parallel economy. Arkansas has passed a law that allows for gold and silver to be used as currency and Texas has finally passed a bill out of committee (HB4903) that will be scheduled for debate, hopefully sooner rather than later. (H/T Zerohedge ((who else))?) This will allow Texans to receive gold and silver backed digital currency as payment for their labor as well as use gold and silver as currency. The digital currency would also be redeemable for physical gold and silver and something the Zerohedge article informed me, that I didn’t know, was that Texas already has a bullion depository, it’s just not available to the citizens, yet. That makes the transition away from Federal Reserve Notes seamless, if they get off their butts and pass it out of the House and Senate and Abbott actually signs it.
The advantage of state run gold, silver currency and digital currencies backed by gold and silver is that it’s constitutional (Article 1, Section 10 “No state shall…coin money; emit bills of credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts…”). I guess it’s okay for the feds to print useless fiat currency, but not the states. This means, however, that it would take a constitutional amendment to make it illegal. No, I’m not saying they wouldn’t still make it illegal, I’m saying that’s an issue that, if done unconstitutionally, becomes a major grievance toward the ultimate split up of the uneasy marriage that already exists. A split up that becomes much easier when disconnecting from the Federal Reserve is no longer step along the path, but a step that has already been taken. As it is, no state has to ask for permission to make gold and silver available for daily transactions, it’s already legal to do so as long as it is backed by or exists as gold or silver.
No matter what happens, developments like this can only help the people of the states that pursue it. The more that take part, the greater the impact on the Fed and that translates to a reduced ability of the federal government to print their way out of trouble. As it is, we’re mostly tied to the fiat currency that’s been devalued over the past 50 years to make slaves of us all.
But a parallel economy must go further. I can’t think of a single public and just as few private corporations that I want to spend my diminishing dollars with. I don’t want to support anyone who supports the mutilation of children too young to defend themselves from their wicked mothers and evil fathers who would go along with it. But I still want to enjoy life, not sit in a hole surrounded by the five products I like that are not supporting this criminal abuse of children.
Is Torba’s parallel economy a good start? Yes, but too many strings. How about Public Square? Again, yes, but too invasive. We don’t need an overall sponsor like that anyway, but what we do need are energetic and devoted distributors. Who are the unwoke distributors among those already engaged in the trade? How can we convince them to make the big break and distribute our goods, local goods to local stores? Where is a network to get us in touch with these distributors? The internet is fine for now, but soon it will come down to people with trucks distributing goods we can count on to be pure. In other words, they can’t distribute the mRNA laden meat and cricket flour. I know there’s a market, an ability to organize those who make the commitment to refuse such products.
This is what a real war in the 21st Century looks like. We need to divide up sides for everything, where we buy food, who distributes it to them, who produces it, who trucks it.
I’m not trying to boycott anyone or anything here. They’ve already destroyed their own brands, I’m just not willing to salvage them from the trash heap on which they’ve gleefully and enthusiastically thrown themselves. Do you trust any major grocer to refuse to take mRNA injected beef? Do you trust any of them to restrain from selling you flour actually made of crickets? Do you trust any of them to rightfully and lawfully label it so you can make your own choice? There’s no honesty in advertising, or even labeling in this society where the woke can break every law known to Man and the unwoke have to obey every strict rule or imposed regulation, many of which aren’t legal, moral or ethical, but they’s the rules, don’t ya know? At least, for you.
I’m not suggesting that we start a fight, the fight’s already been started, I’m suggesting that we start to take a few swings ourselves. The break from the Fed is a good start, a necessary start, but it’s fueled by businesses that won’t deal in anything other than gold or silver or at least gold or silver backed digital currency. It gains momentum when the workers will accept nothing other than gold, silver or gold or silver backed digital currency. That’s where I stand and my future employment will rely on that, especially if Texas can do the right thing and pass the same general bill that Arkansas just passed into law.
This is ultimately a matter of solvency and a lack of faith in those in power. No one wants to be holding billions in worthless currency when the music stops. The amount of businesses and financial services that will be attracted by a commodity-based currency instead of the fiat currency they use now will be massive, just out of a sense of self-defense. The end of the fiat currency is destined to happen; it’s no longer a fear or dream, the mechanics of it are already in motion, the wheels already turning to get us there. We have to be smart enough to recognize it and move on to something more stable. Perhaps, we can regain world confidence and trade when the states individually show more common sense than the blithering idiots that bought into Modern Monetary Theory.
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My hats off to Texas. Arkansas, too. They both will be far ahead of the 'game' if they can just tie up all the loose ends to normalize the use of gold/silver within the state for commerce.
I don't think those running things economically are simply idiots... (but some are). I think they are smart calculating thieves who have been running this criminal enterprise for decades. As George Carlin said, its all a big club and we're not in it.
I sent an email to my state senator just this past week to encourage him to begin considering the use of gold/silver as legal payment in all commerce within the state. I doubt it will go anywhere since the Northern Virginia tail is still waging the dog even with a Republican administration.
I have reduced my exposure to the fiat dollar about all that I can at this point. I won't go into detail, but at this point if the banks take a crap I won't loose everything. Maybe just a little bit. We still need dollars at this point to engage in the economy, so we will need them for a while longer. What we also can look forward to are newly hatched schemes to steal for themselves all the wealth they can identify as they become more desperate.
I am leery of digital currencies no matter who is handling them. Digital currencies are held by the string of electrical power and internet-based technologies. Thats a big risk, in my opinion.
Parallel economies will develop over time. (Many already currently exist around the world, most locally) Knowing what happened to both Kadafi and Sadam Hussein when they planned on how to get out from beneath the Dollar system I doubt this regime would allow states to do it. Texas might be the best hope due to their established manufacturing, refining, natural resources, and sea ports. Jeff Glodblum who played the famous mathematician In Jurassic Park in commenting as to how these supposedly sterile dinosaurs were reproducing said "Nature always finds a way". I think independent-minded people who love freedom and liberty will too.
Hello Dear TLD.
Congrats to Arkansas, and good luck to Texas. I fear they will be punished,
or threatened. People are easily cowed, or are true believers, easily bribed
and if all else fails? they commit suicide. The peeps behind fiat dollars are
committed. Also they have endless resources, and loyal minions to carry out
whatever they are told to do. Sorry to be pessimistic.
Should any states prevail? Others will follow and then more. It will be grounds
for war or divorce. It would be a messy divorce anyway we cut it. It can't just be
independent $, but be a formal succession. Who has the brains to restructure?
Government workers, recipients of Federally funded benefits, IRS, SS, Medicare and
Medicaid will rise up in a rage. We are up against the big guns.
Fantasy: everyone receiving free $ and threatens/riots is kicked out of a given state
and a new worker only state is formed. I should stop. Fantasy is no solution.