Penny For Your Thoughts
Treasury nudges us gingerly toward digital currency
Whether we realize it or not, last week the United States took its first official step toward destroying our physical currency. It was a baby step, to be certain, and a rather unsteady one… but a step, nonetheless.
US Treasury Makes Final Decision On Pennies
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And - of course - they are claiming a ‘W’…
The U.S. Treasury has announced it will phase out the production of pennies, marking the end of an era for the one-cent coin. This decision comes as the cost of producing a penny has risen to nearly four cents, making it economically unfeasible.
President Donald Trump initiated the move in February, emphasizing the need to eliminate wasteful spending. The Treasury estimates that halting penny production will save taxpayers $56 million annually, though some reports suggest savings could be as high as $85 million.
So while Congress has largely ignored the DOGE recommended cuts, and we are still wasting billions of dollars propping up foreign regimes, AND still adding trillions to our debt… we are supposed to get excited about saving $56-$85 million?
We’re being played.
But THIS is the worst part, a paragraph wedged into the article a bit farther down the page…
The production of nickels, which costs about 14 cents per coin, could offset the savings from discontinuing pennies. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent expressed confidence that changes in nickel composition could help balance production costs.
Oh, he expressed ‘confidence’ that a composition change would drop the cost of minting nickels? We already use the cheapest viable coin-metals available, so how exactly is that supposed to work?
‘Confidence,’ indeed.
No, what is more likely - and here is the nugget they do NOT want us to know - is that they will target the nickel next. Then perhaps after that the dime, then maybe quarters, and before you know it?
“We could save so much money by going 100% digital.”
And what constitutes ‘so much’ when it comes to pennies? That $85M is 0.00023% of the current $37T debt. How’s that for big savings?
The elimination of the penny is conditioning, folks, pure and simple. It is a way to methodically program us commoners to live without our coins, one coin after the other. They will then attempt to con us into surrendering our paper money as well, because “It costs so much to print and you buy everything digitally anyhow, so come on!”
And then?
Social credit scores, tracked purchases… the end of whatever economic privacy we still have left. While I know that our current usury-based, fiat currency is not ideal, compared to what is coming? We will miss our physical money when it is gone.
Not if it is gone… when.
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They should have quit making pennies decades ago, when people began tossing them into those containers on the cash register counter. Nickels should be dumped as well, and quarters can be replaced with dimes and half-dollars.
Dollars, "cash," that is another matter. Put your plastic away and pay cash for everything you possibly can.
No, my friend, it was not the first step toward destroying our physical currency. The first step was in Anno Domini 1792 when the congress passed the most perverse price-fixing scam in the "mint act" which declared a "dollar" to mean a twentieth of an ounce of gold, or 371.25 grains of silver, or a certain number of penny weights of copper. This destructive act led to coin shortages.
The establishment of the unconstitutional "first bank of the United States" and its successor, the second bank, and the current Feral Reserveless scam were next steps. None of these things were quite so destructive as the 1933 executive order by evil communist demon worshipper Franklin Roosevelt banning the ownership of gold by Americans. He began inflating from $20/ounce to $35 per ounce.
The Bretton Woods accord was an attempt in 1944 to limit further damage. It lasted more or less until 1971. The murder of JFK led to the installation of LBJ as the puppet of the freemason demon worshippers of the "deep state" which is really the house of Windsor operating through cut outs. LBJ did another major thing to destroy our physical currency by taking the silver out of the dimes and quarters and reducing the half dollar to 70% silver. Nixon finished the job of making the physical currency into pot metal instead of precious metal. Nixon also ended in 1971 the last connexion to gold. Nixon was also a puppet of the deep state filthy Skull & Bones demon worshipping scum.
Yes, getting rid of the penny matters, and yes it is meant to hurt Americans as much as possible, and yes it is profoundly evil. But, no, it is not the first step. It is one of a long series of purposely evil choices to make other people suffer as much as possible. The politicians and bureau rats hate us and want our families to suffer, die, and the survivors to be enslaved to the demons they worship. They are profoundly, deeply, and in many cases irredeemably evil.
Happily a bunch of us got together and invented millions of kinds of alternatives to the dollar. Jim Blanchard got some of his wealthy buddies to donate enough money to deep state puppet Gerry Ford's re-election campaign so he ended the ban on American gold ownership. Some states have begun issuing "gold backs" and other gold and silver alternatives.
I've been in this business of free market money since 1998. In that time I've worked very hard to meet many of the people who do the work of making things happen and corresponding with others. Others like Roger Ver, Doug Jackson, Bernard von NotHaus, Dave Scotese, and more victims of state violence against freedom.