The War on Cash: Threats to Privacy and Freedom

The government's push for a cashless society threatens privacy and prompts the need for gold as a safeguard against currency devaluation and government overreach.

### The Future of Money: Gold, Cash, and Government Control
* 💰 Dr. Paul discusses the history of gold as a **sound currency**, its **price fluctuations**, and the government's **manipulation of the market**.
* 💸 The government's massive credit accumulation forces it to print money, leading to **currency devaluation and inflation**.
* 🚫 Major venues and companies are increasingly moving towards a cashless society, raising concerns about **privacy and government surveillance**.
* 🔒 Eliminating cash allows the government to **monitor and control all transactions**, potentially leading to scenarios like the **confiscation of funds**.
* 📈 Investing in gold is seen as a way to protect against the **devaluation of fiat currencies** and the risks of **government-controlled money**.
* 🐱 Dr. Paul and Chris Rosini highlight the **futility of the government's attempts to completely control the monetary system**, as people will always find ways to **circumvent such restrictions**.
* 🌍 There is a growing global demand for gold, with central banks seeking to **back their currencies with the precious metal**.
* 🗽 Ultimately, Dr. Paul emphasizes the importance of **promoting personal liberty, honest government, and a return to the principles of sound money** to preserve **peace and prosperity**.

[Music] Hello everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report. With us today, we have Chris Rosini, our co-host. Chris, welcome to the program. Great to be with you, Dr. Paul. Very good. We'll be talking about money today. I'm sure we'll make see in gold, but we'll also talk about paper money and legal tender. And there's hints that the government may be behind this move on that's in need about people not being able to use paper money or any government money. And you have to you can't use the cash. You have to cash it in, which means that we've predicted this, and they do it all the time. And there's a lot of tracing money. So we'll get into that in a bit yet, but you know the gold markets have been jumping around. And I saw today they were jumping way up because the houses were down. But that's gets a little bit more complicated because I try to narrow it down to something that's easier to understand is why does

it go up and down. Well, markets go up and down, but we do know that uh gold goes up. And it's uh, although it has periods when it goes down. When you think about uh about gold when it was the responsibility of maintaining a sound currency, of course, they tried to do that with uh, you know, the Continental dollar, and they ruined it. It got it was finished pry quickly, and with that message they he said in the Constitution that we're going to have a sound currency, and then there was a fight ever since about do we have a central bank, do we have a federal reserve, and uh, to maintain the value of the currency. Well, it looks like over the years there was an erosion of the currency, and the people who wanted the central bank, they got what they wanted, and now now we're in the me the mess we're in, and the uh, the whole the whole thing is is the the credit that is accumulated by our government is so atrocious that they have not much other alternative to print money, so when they took over this

responsibility. Gold was $20 an ounce and uh, and you know, most of my life up until the 70s, we weren't even allowed to own gold, you know, it, it was taken off the market so they've been manipulating, but they could not manipulate the market, saying, Look, you're, you're lying to us, you're cheating, you're printing too much money. It's not $20 an ounce, and then they capitulated, and they did. The price went up as long as you were in the government, then you could use it, but that finally broke down in 71, and then they, uh, then they did. So the Fed was in charge, so they took it for $20 an ounce. It was amazing. Went to me. It went to $200, and I thought, Wow, it went up that, that much tfold, and then all of a sudden it went up to $2,000 where it sits now, and, uh, because the policies aren't changed. There's always an argument, always an argument in Washington about whose fault is it. Is it Congress?

spending too much money and putting pressure on the fed or is the Fed out there creating the money and pretending they can regulate the economy and stimulate or slow down the economy. According to some Keynesian rule that they have devised and put into a computer. So we have that to deal with. And today we have this currency that is deteriorating rather rapidly. And now Chris I want to move into our assessment of a magazine article that we saw from Zero Hedge. This article that we looked at caught our attention. It says it's not right major venues now punishing people for using cash versus plastic. Oh well this is okay. Can't these companies, can't the Yankee Stadium people collect their money in credit cards and checks and all this but not government legal tender. So I have a legal tender bill here and I don't know who's breaking the rules. I know that

I know the federal government and the Federal Reserve breaking a lot of rules and a lot of not only etiquette, but uh just honesty and money. But here's a bill famous, uh, it's United States of America. We have them all the way up still to 100, used to go up to $500 and maybe even bigger, but even these bills. It says this, this bill is legal tender for all debts public and private. Now is that a mandate or, or are we able to use it and satisfy debt? Well, I don't think anybody wants to think about that. That just confuses people about legal tender because we'd like to just eliminate the whole system and let the government get out of it, out of rigging the system. So, uh, they have talked a long time about, uh, a cashless Society. Why is it good for economics? Is it good because it'll facilitate trade and that sort of thing? No, it facilitates the spying nature of the, the intrusion of big government into the privacy of all citizens. And they've been doing that all along. I mean the

bank secrecy Act was not to keep things secret for you. It was to spy on us. And I think that was in the 1970s. And ever since, so they keep they keep close tabs on this. And some people said that's been the motivation for the cryptocurrency. And it probably has been. But my prediction is that ultimately the government is going to be interested in all of it, whether it's legal tender dollars, whether it's new money, crypto money, gold, whatever. If they can confiscate the gold, that means the government is going to be watching us very carefully. Chris, that's right, Dr. Paul. Yeah. And um, I had a family member recently tell me they went to a baseball game and everything has to be credit. They won't take any cash. He's and uh, you're, you're basically penalized. You then you have to go to ATM and pay a fee to go get your money to go use the stadium. So yes, they're trying to eliminate cash. It is a big threat to privacy. And you know, most uh

transactions these days are credit anyway, but they want Total surveillance of all our transactions. They want no Escape, you know, Into Cash, to where they can't see where everything is going on. And it's is very similar to the vaccine passports. They wanted total control of our movements, uh, yes, I I've been Jab this many times, look, I'm up to date, look at my app, you know, uh, thankfully that flopped and went up in Flames, that nazil likee tyranny, but you know, these people that want this stuff, they don't give up, this war on cash is just another angle and uh, you know, it's very disappointing, you know, our major sports leagues, they're like arms of the government, everything the government does, the sports leagues, they have their pom poms cheerleading everything, and they're always at the Forefront testing this tyranny on us, you know, it's a shame, and the tech companies are the same way, they had the apps for this contact tracing and you're going to show how up to-date you are so you could get into places.

while all the diseased people stayed out in the parking lot. You know, the major problem with this is if all money is digital and controlled by the state, it means they can take money out of your account without you having any say about it. They want a war with Iran, take it. You wake up one day and a thousand bucks is gone. That's your contribution to the war. And this happened in Cyprus, I believe, during a financial crisis. People, they call it a haircut. They went in their bank account, you know, was less than it was the day before. They just confiscate the money and there's no way out. There's no, you can't go take out cash. Your money is completely at their mercy. Now this won't work, this stuff, and I'll get into that later, but this is the goals, this is the illusions that they dream up. These vaccine passports, getting rid of cash, but there will always be workarounds and we'll get to that soon. You know, the argument is that the

government has to do this, and the feds involved to keep the people honest, you know that they're not cheating and they're not stealing and this sort of thing. And I got to thinking, what we have here is that we have a need for keeping the government on us, and that we don't have, but they're working very hard to keep things on us. It's makes it harder and harder for people to invest and to take care of their future needs, and I find that it's helpful to have some assistance to this. This is why we partner with Birch Gold Group, because they deal with gold, and having putting your gold in a place which is safer than when it's in the hands of the government. You're not allowed to touch it, so that is available, and they have information to tell you how you can do and how to set up an account for this, to put actually the medal, the gold, in these funds if for retirement purposes. So if you wanted more information on

this is exactly what they're doing and their advice. You can get it, you don't have to pay for it. This is available to people who request it. So if you did, you can text Ron at 989898 and they'll send you some material to find out whether you want to use this vehicle. Because right now, when I look at all these things going on with the attack on cash, which is going to continue, is not going to go away. And then also, if you look at the incentive to print money, there is no way that's going away. And so all our problems are going to get worse when it comes to monetary things. And that means it'll be harder to finance the government, because it means higher taxes. Well, you know the taxes are going to go up, but the people there's a limit of what the people can pay. And so they always have to resort to something else. They have to use the inflation tax, print the money, devalue the currency, take the value from

the from the Cur and the self, and that's a way of uh stealing money from the people, and also the technique of squeezing the taxpayer, threatening them, you're going to go to president if you into prison if you do this, and uh, and they usually like to use you say Well they're just going after the big guys right, no I don't think you ever see the big guys with handcuffs on not out of anyway, but you do see sometime you see individuals who are totally innocent of any conniving or dealing in anything over $10,000, they want to make sure everybody knows everybody's vulnerable to have the pressure put on the IRS, so they they do that, then then there's the limit, uh, and nothing is going to happen to change this unless Washington Congress and the president and the FED participates in this whole thing of cutting back on spending, and just think of how many special interests there are, whether it's the military, the pharmaceutical companies, the educational system, on and on, so the spending is going to continue.

and the deficits are skyrocketing. Even this year, it was discovered that the deficit was going to go up. They had to add this on by surprise. They missed it so far, so they had to add another $400 billion for what the deficit is going to be. It's up to $1.9 trillion in one year. So that's going to continue. That is why gold is so important. And all this is important. So you lose twice when the government borrows and spends the money. People suffer. They're not doing that to protect us. The people suffer from this. So you lose there. But then they take the money and they inflate it. It gives you price inflation. Then if you go to the grocery store, your grocery bills double or whatever. And that's another time you get hurt. You get hurt when they take the money. And then you get hurt with the higher prices, which is taking the purchasing power of your money.

it's a bad system. It's coming to an end, and this is why I really do emphasize trying to figure out how to preserve, serve, and protect against the system, you know. And I talk a lot about that, and I've done that over the years because there's a lot of things you can do, you know, having family and friends and survival, uh, equipment and all this. But, uh, ultimately, you know, working for sound money and working for protection of liberty is really the big things that we have to deal with. And, uh, I think there's more of that, but the money is an issue that people understand what's going on now, uh, especially with this, this, uh, this motive and this news about, uh, you know, you can't, you can't even go to, uh, go to the ball game without cashing in your cash, you know, and getting a certificate to so you can spend some money. And you could argue and say, well, that's just, that's just the ballpark figure. They do that, don't they have a right to do that? Well, that's

not where the argument the argument is do you think that fed could be behind this test run. How are the people going to react if they're not allowed to use cash? That's what I think it's all about. So if you know the removal of cash is something because it's the principle just as the removal the value of money is a principle that lasted a long time but removing cash is going to be systematic and steady and Sinister. But that is a purpose to the end to the point someday. Maybe maybe the government won't have to do anything maybe it's the times when these countries whether it was Germany Venezuela or or or whatever that the paper money becomes worthless and the government doesn't have to confiscate it the people just burn it. So that's all it's an not a we don't we have a system that is not viable. It's been around for a long time all the way back to Roman times and it has to do with greed it has to do with

theft. It has to do with loss of morality. And uh right now, we're in the midst of this, and we're in the midst of runaway inflation. We're having an election coming up, and some people would conclude by telling who's their candidate, and he'll stop it. And uh, quite frankly, uh, it's not going to be stopped very easily. It's how are we going to deal with this, and are we going to look at it honestly. It's a huge problem, and the honest answer, as far as I'm concerned, is having a system of government much closer to what the founders intended than what we have turned it into. Chris, absolutely, Dr. Paul. Yes, uh, authoritarians have these fantasies that they one day can just turn the key, and then every, you know, all of human life is boxed in for them to manipulate. But uh, that's not going to happen because you cannot box in the human mind creativity. Human creativity. So government makes rules. We have more rules than they even know exist.

anymore. And yet, for every single one of those rules, there's people that get around them always. Uh, all because all they have to do is, okay, here's the situation, how do we get around this? And then they sit and think and they figure out a way. Period. And, uh, so if they want to lock people into a digital money prison immediately or even beforehand, alternative currencies will be created, both physical, digital, and black markets will form immediately. Uh, and here's the irony of it: politicians themselves will participate in the alternative currencies and black markets because they're some of the most corrupt people on Earth. So they're going to want stuff that's off the books and not, uh, you know, used with the, uh, official digital currency. People will have two accounts: the one the government sees and the one the government doesn't see. So that's why this whole, uh, uh, idea is a Fool's errand. But again, they have this fantasy that they're going to lock people in, uh, but the this this works both ways. Um, we

would like for the politicians to follow the rules too. We would love for them to follow the Constitution. They break every single one because they look at the law, the Constitution, they say, How do we get around this? Uh, we can't counterfeit money, so we won't. The Federal Reserve will do it. We can't censor, we won't. The, uh, Facebooks will do it for us. So it's the same thing. They use their creative mind to get around the rules. In this case, it's the Constitution. It's a law they're supposed to follow, and they do the same exact thing that citizens do to them. So it's a constant cat and mouse game, this life that we are in here. We just, we just need, uh, freedom to dominate at all times. One or the other is going to dominate, either tyranny or freedom. Early in our country's history, freedom dominated, and there was, uh, great, uh, results of it. Today, tyranny dominates, and look at the results, they're terrible. So this idea that they're going to lock the doors and

everybody is going to be in their digital prison is a fantasy very good. You know, uh, there's an article recently. The headline caught my attention. It said the world is going to need more gold. And I look at this as a positive story because I just mentioned a little while ago that, uh, you know, eventually one way the government might not, not might not have to knock on the door and take your paper money. They're, they're going to regulate and the things that we were talking about forcing everybody, uh, to not use it and to make it illegal. But, uh, if, if it's down to the point where the runaway inflation isn't, they print trillions of dollars of paper that has no value, they have to burn it. Uh, what happens? And this article, the world's going to need more gold, is, is good because there is a movement. There's the, uh, the rebellion against the dollar's reserve currency status and the BRIC group. And that is big and huge and moving along and who knows knows what will come of that.

uh, they're always mentioning gold in it. They're not talking about the gold standard that we might need someday, but this is the market speaking, and uh, a lot of people, um, you know, uh, believe in believe the argument. Well, you can't have a gold standard. There's not enough gold in the world. In a way, they're suggesting that in this article, there's not enough gold, but we need more gold. But you know what, if you're on a true gold standard, you don't have to worry about it. If you have a total fiat currency and you try to regulate it, sometimes you think, well, we need more Fiat. We don't. We need to take it back, you know, and reduce it. But if if they don't, uh, you if you do, don't do this, and the gold, uh, when when prices, uh, when the value of gold in a free market goes up, there's a greater incentive to print, uh, to mine more gold, uh, so you don't have the market will regulate the supply. Everybody say, well, how do you

know there the population is growing, doesn't that mean we have to have more gold to for the market to work? No, you really don't because gold is a measuring rod, and you can use it as a measuring rod without having everybody carrying everything around in your pocket. That means gold coins, everything else, it's not, it's not like that, it isn't, but the market, the market actually deals with this. It doesn't mean that if you have the perfect Fiat system or perfect cryptocurrency and saying, well, when the world doubles in Supply, you know, uh, we'll have to do something to adjust and this sort of thing, we just had add another paper currency but, uh, the gold standard miraculously, uh, when the people want it and they want their freedoms and limited government and honest government actually the, uh, the gold Supply will be adequate. The supply of gold because they if, if the purchasing power goes up, there's an incentive to mine more and, uh, and and that that makes a difference when the prices are too high, maybe they won't use it as much but the market

will regulate the amount of gold people worry too much about that and uh but this article is suggesting that they need gold now because these central banks want it to back their currency and that is good and for them to go out and buy the gold but that doesn't mean necessarily the world has to all of a sudden have new discoveries or the market is going to crash because there's not enough gold to have free markets I don't I don't think that's that's the case I think the market is Market is pretty smart a lot smarter than the K and economists that have been running the FED for all these years fantastic and that is uh that's that's an excellent point I'll finish up Dr Paul echoing that point money is a function and creation of the market to most Americans that would be at it's very strange uh they think that this is a government thing no government comes in afterwards and hijacks it and then monopolizes it for itself but money has

always been a market uh phenomenon, and another thing that we are totally, you know, not used to, is money. In the past, you would, it would buy more as time goes on when there's more productivity, the uh, you could buy more as the years go on with your money, because the money is worth more. Today, it's the exact opposite. It's constantly being debased and inflated away, because that's why government wanted the control of the money, uh, and we're used to constantly higher prices. This is unnatural. This is a government money phenomenon, not Market money phenomenon, and what they do is they hijack it, they, and then they stamp legal tender. This is what you're going to use by force as money, no more you choose whatever monies you want to use in the marketplace, you're going to use this, and we're going to create as much as we want for welfare, for Warfare, to grow the government as big as we want, and today the United States government is the biggest in the history of the world. That was not the plan or the hope.

that's not Freedom. You can't have freedom and that at the same time uh so they use the counterfeiting of money to grow themselves you know and uh so even if they were to pull off this digital currency would be the same problem. They would use it, they would inflate it, and it would decrease in value to the point of perhaps hyperinflation uh because they cannot defeat supply and demand that is out of their control. They are slaves to it like everyone else so we really don't have to worry. And like I said earlier black markets alternative currencies would form and perhaps abolish. You know make the government's money irrelevant altogether so we shouldn't be afraid of this stuff just need to understand what they're trying to do why they're foolish in trying to do it and at the same time put out the good ideas so we can get back on a better path very good you know I'm going to mention one more time the number to text if you're interested in getting some information from Birch gold

and that is text Ron at 9898 98 if you want to hear get a little bit more information how you can be saving literally withholding the uh metal itself and uh you know over the years. I have uh purchased gold especially since I got interested in the in the monetary system a long time before gold became legal which was not until 1975 and uh and that has helped me because as a coin collector even as a kid you know I like that but the penties had copper in it the nickel had nickels in it the diamonds had silver in it the quarters had silver in it they weren't we weren't allowed to have gold coins but uh none of that exists it sort of annoys me to know and when there's a bunch of coins laying around the house or on the floor or out in the yard someplace and you pick them up and uh it's it's just junk and I I think the coinage is junk because the our policies are are are junk but I never I never

really took to investing. I think saving coins and having and purchase, you know, the medals, and actually use, you know, use them as a savings device. That's a little bit different than if you're trading gold and buy gold and invest gold price is going up, and then you sell and that sort of. I didn't do that, but still, if the assumption is that the Mes in Washington is going to continue, the deficits are going to skyrocket, the FED is not going to go away tomorrow, they're going to keep printing money, and therefore the ratio is going to change, which is to say there's going to be more and more dollars, and you can't predict tomorrow, the next day if you were the greatest investor in the world, you would know what to do, what to do every other day or something, but no, you don't do that. But when you look at the long picture of what the FED did from $20 to $2,000, and what if, what if, if that

percentage happens again you know and it could and that's the whole problem with trying to help people is because nobody knows what next week will bring. I mean the foundation of our system has rotted away. There is no Foundation because the foundation is based on honesty and integrity, a justice system, and the principles of Liberty and sound money. We don't have that, so some type of cataclysmic thing can happen, and the worst thing that can happen in this world with all the horrible weapons we have is, you know, a World War breaking out, but there's a world effort now to rearm, which makes me a little bit nervous, although they've been doing that forever, uh, you know, but this is, this is something we should, uh, you know, be concerned about, and this is why we spend our time at the Ron Paul Institute and the Ron Paul Liberty Report is to promote the cause of Liberty because I believe that gives us the answers on, on it tells us how we got here and what we can do.

and believe me, the answer is not complicated. Personal liberty and honesty in government would go a long way to preserving peace and prosperity. Want to thank everybody for tuning in today to the Liberty Report. Please come back soon for

Like “Vaccines Passports,” The "War On Cash" Will Ultimately Fail

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The Impact of Government Money on Paper Currency

The government is potentially making a move to restrict the use of paper money, pushing for a cashless society.

This is causing a debate about the responsibility for the devaluation of the currency, with the Federal Reserve being blamed for excessive money printing.

Major venues are now favoring electronic payments over cash, raising concerns about the punishment of people using government-issued legal tender.

The Push for a Cashless Society: A Threat to Privacy and Economic Freedom

The government's push for a cashless society is driven by a desire for total surveillance of all transactions, posing a threat to privacy.

The elimination of cash is also a way for the government to have full control over the digital money system, allowing them to take money from people's accounts without consent.

This move towards a cashless system is part of a larger effort to have complete authority over financial transactions and is a significant threat to economic freedom.

The Importance of Gold in a Volatile Economy

The government's financial actions are causing economic instability, leading to a need for alternative investment options like gold.

The rising deficits and government spending are devaluing currency, making gold an important asset for protecting wealth.

The government's inflationary measures are hurting people's purchasing power, making gold an attractive option for preserving wealth.

The removal of cash is a systematic and steady process with a sinister purpose, potentially leading to a time when paper money becomes worthless.

The current financial system is facing runaway inflation, driven by greed and a loss of morality, making it a huge problem that won't be easily stopped.

Authoritarians may have fantasies of controlling human life, but the human mind's creativity cannot be boxed in by government rules.

The Inevitability of Alternative Currencies

Despite efforts to establish a digital money prison, alternative currencies will still be created, including physical, digital, and black markets.

Politicians are likely to participate in these alternative currencies and black markets, contributing to the ongoing cat and mouse game of circumventing the rules.

The increasing need for gold indicates a rebellion against the dollar's reserve currency status, further supporting the rise of alternative currencies.

The article discusses the idea of the gold standard and its relationship to the market's regulation of the supply of gold.

It argues that a true gold standard would eliminate the need for constantly adjusting the supply of fiat currency.

The article also suggests that the market is capable of regulating the amount of gold without the need for central banks to increase their reserves.

Government control of money has led to constant devaluation and inflation, deviating from the natural market phenomenon.

The manipulation of money supply is aimed at growing the government, but alternative currencies and black markets may diminish the relevance of government money.

Investing in gold is presented as a way to save and has been a long-standing interest due to dissatisfaction with the current monetary system.

The Uncertainty of Investing and the Call for Liberty

The speaker discusses the difference between saving coins as a form of investment and trading gold, expressing uncertainty about the future due to the unstable economic foundation.

They also express concern about the global effort to rearm and the potential for a world war, emphasizing the importance of promoting personal liberty and honesty in government for preserving peace and prosperity.