I'll be rich.

You are always clear and concise in your presentation. I believe you are correct in what is coming for the future of the US economy. In the early '70's I read a book titled 'How to Live Free in an Unfree World'. It had good information on how to avoid contact with the government and its resulting confiscatory reach on your wealth for its time. One thing he stated that was true then was that 98% of the information the government had you gave them on their 'voluntary' forms. His method was simple, quit giving them information. Unfortunately the advent of the modern computer has made it almost impossible to not give them information, it is collected constantly. A cashless society as you point out will make it impossible to not participate and be plundered. Your conclusion to use your intellectual ability to provide for yourself may not work either. Since it will be easy to track what you are doing on your property and control that also. My son-in-law found out how difficult it can be to provide food for yourself, maintaining honey bees or a garden now requires you to have a hazardous materials license since food is now classified as a dangerous material. I can't remember the law that was passed in 2008 that basically stated you can grow food on your property (garden) but you cannot transport it, trade it, sell it or consume it unless you have permission from the state to do so. If you are purchasing seeds, garden tools, fertilizer the state will already be aware of your intentions. The largest problem previous slave states have had is being able to monitor the slaves. A computer program will now do the monitoring and send out the Gestapo as needed to control the populace. Slavery is now finally efficient. I have my doubts as to the survivability rate for those who would be free.

we are in our late 60s...so if not now...then when...

i will keep everyone posted on where we will be...

Sounds great. Have fun and glad you're going to stay in touch.

Mia, sounds like fun! I hope you have a ball!

hey robert...my girlfriend and i just bought an RV...we have packed up the house and are going to travel the country and work here and there as long as we are physically able...the kids are grown and gone...we will have a satellite dish on top of the RV to stay in touch with the Gulch...

Thanks for posting to FB and getting the word out.

posted to facebook...with...and next comes...NIRP (negative interest program, where the govt banks will charge you interest to put your money in a checking or savings account...then take you 401K and put it in a GRA (govt retirement account where they determine how much to give back when they deem fit)...

Hello strightlinelogic,
How very typical... government creates a problem and then gathers more power over its serfs with its "solutions".
When cash is gone the underground black market will grow.
Abolish the FED! We can't even get an audit and I 'm not sure what good it would do anyway.
Respectfully,
O.A.

Hi freedom; On the surface it might seem to some that there's some similarity, but let's not forget Ragnar for AR, and the Gulch's reason for being; denying to the system the contributions of those that actually produce. We also must remember Ghandi's 7 Social Sins: On October 22, 1925, Gandhi published a list he called the Seven Social Sins in his weekly newspaper Young India.

Politics without principles.
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Ghandi was a pacifist-collectivist-altruist.

Have seen this coming for a while, tried talking myself out of believing it...but it's in your face. To add insult to injury...it's tough to prepare even for the short term.

I find it hard to understand the horrid actions that the people who are our elected officials are doing and have been for years that continually push the country further and further down the toilet. It is blatantly clear that not a one of them actually cares and some how they believe there will not be a day of retribution. What Ayn Rand predicted is absolutely taking place and there will not be a turning around ever.

Can't argue with you there, just look at the national debt per capita.

you will be poor is not quite accurate we are all poor now!

The phasing out of cash is really scary. If the government had not used debit cards as a way to spy on people then this would be a wonderful technology. But since they do, we are happy that cash is widely used here and we pay almost everything in cash.

I have argued that the Legal Tender laws are more important than the central bank. The 1st legal tender laws in the US were passed during the civil war, to allow literal printing of money. The Supreme Court initially ruled them unconstitutional president Grant packed the Court and got the case overturned.

If we got rid of legal tender laws, then the Federal Reserve would fall apart.

This will backfire spectacularly. Ban cash and people will find foreign money or various small valuables (old silver coin?) to trade. And more of the economy will go underground.

Aw, what's to worry?

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Ask a libtard about that and see him shrug.

No Way Out.
That's what is in the offing. Once the financial world sets this is motion, there will be no way to accumulate wealth unless you are in politics. There is no better way to set up a Feudal state than what is going to occur. Only the titles of the players will be changed.

Guns, gold and in my case as a Christian, God. Of course, a good spouse is a treasure as well in these ominous times. Oh yeah, some stored food and water is highly prudent too.

Worse yet, you will be required to buy what the government tells you to. Expect an ever more statist, liberal judiciary to open the door to an increasing number of mandates ordering the common citizen to buy medical insurance, liability insurance, certified "environmentally safe" products, and any other item designed to put more money in the pockets of favored individuals.

Sorry for the typo, should read peacefully.

Fighting peacefullt is also a Randian concept, isn't it, Zen?

Ahh, you see it as well.