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From: dpetermaus@att.net
On 11/11/11 17:38 , Patrick Turner wrote:
> On Nov 12, 3:45 am, "D. Peter Maus" wrote:
>> On 11/11/11 08:42 , Lord Valve wrote:
>>
>>>> If you are paranoid, you an even find stores in many places where you can
buy
>>>> a refurbished radio for cash and leave a fake name and address.
>>
>>> Huh?
>>
>>> Where are you posting from? Why would anyone need to
>>> leave his name and address - fake or otherwise - when
>>> purchasing a radio?
>>
>> Because cash transactions are coming under the scrutiny of
>> authority, today. Louisiana just became the most recent state to
>> require identity of purchaser in a cash transaction or a ban on the
>> cash transaction. Even a used purchase from a flea market or a
>> garage sale.
>>
>> Other states are currently debating this provision.
>
> How about that. I guess the Taxation and Police authorities might like
> to know how and where ppl spend their cash.
Actually, it's more sinister than that.
>
> But I heard that since 911, hundreds of huge and mainly hidden
> buildings housing about 2 million workers across the USA have been
> quietly built and operate to filter all email traffic and phone
> traffic to detect terrorists and possibly anyone other selectable
> target, like people trading in OLD STUFF like old radios which consume
> the same amount of electricity to run an air con unit, or 500 i-pods.
> These spying centers suck in digital data like huge vacuum cleaners,
> then apply a filter for key words. One wonders if such centers could
> detect the next intended school shooting or Oklahoma Bombing.
> The so called BLACK ECONOMY, ie, the flow of cash which can't be
> traced and hence isn't taxed is one of the big reasons to try to
> outlaw cash, and thus have everyone pay the transaction cost to a 3rd
> party by means of the credit card. But here in Oz, cash is still
> widely used, and everyone I know does not need to be told to bring
> cash when paying me peanut wages for radio repairs. I explain to ppl
> that average wages are 60 grand a year now, ie, $1,300 a week for the
> 46 weeks out of 52 ppl actually work, ie, $32.50c per hour of 40 hrs a
> week.
> (( Ppl get to "administer" this amount, then have to pay $10 income
> tax and maybe 25 other various bribes to banks for mortage payments
> and GST, and company profits etc, etc, etc, before keeping $3.25 to
> buy bananas to give the banana farmer a similar amount via the system
> of banana distribution so he ends up with 10c per banana. Its all far
> more complex than a company boss or union rep is willing to
> describe )). But a radio might take 120 hrs to fix right, and maybe I
> get $600, after giving them a discount of $3,300 off the wages of
> $3,900 which should be paid for 120 hours of work. Cash will be around
> for awhile yet, but in 20 years perhaps goverments will try to save
> money by not printing it. I'll be dead as the species of cash becomes
> extinct like the lions, tigers, and elephants, and thousands of lesser
> known species. Trouble may come if a government values a radio repair
> transaction as being worth say $3,900 instead of $600, and taxes
> people on the same rate as those earning average weekly earnings to
> discourage anyone offering discounts to compete, or to survive. All
> sorts of BS is possible, but so far, afaik, cash is still extremely
> popular here. But in 1983, if someone wanted to extend their house,
> all work valued above $10,000 had to be "declared" to prevent ppl
> hiding un-seen cash income in the form of house improvements. Guess
> what. Ppl just did little bits of improvements at a time and still
> managed to get their house extensions approved by the govt
> authorities. Bundles of notes went out of one pocket and into another
> one. But in Greece, there is mastery of the cash economy, and they
> have many other devious ways of keeping NOSY PARKER GOVT out of
> business, and as a result, you see the mess Greece is in. Two sides to
> every story.
> Maybe another Great Depression might just happen. The Financial System
> BEAST of the world survives because other ppl have a hand in YOUR
> pocket whether you like it or not. The Beast extracts a steady trickle
> of bucks to make credit flow. The trickle is like food, a small
> percentage of body weight needs to be consumed by the Beast each day
> to survive and if the trickle feed stops, the Beast gets very sick
> indeed, thus giving everyone the shits in a big way. Departments of
> taxation and Criminal control departments of governments around the
> world are part of the Beast. Beastly health is mostly desirable, but
> colly wobbles can now be heard.
>
> And there is a gigantic building here worth a billion or two being
> built at high speed for ASIO, the Oz branch of CIA equivalent, right
> here in town. Maybe it'll have about 3,000 ppl employed to keep a
> watch on what everyone else is doing, saying, typing, and sending, and
> its only "one small step" to knowing what everyone is thinking, and a
> "giant leap for mankind" to control thinking.
>
> From what I see, everyone wants a cheap deal and they don't care about
> your wages, just their own.
> Ppl don't care about the environment of anyone or anything living more
> than 5km away from themselves.
> Most ppl don't really mind being spied on.
> And many will happily spy on everyone else.
> Its going on, and people ain't rioting in the streets about it.
They will. About 2 hours after it's too late.
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