Hay and Barley Cards
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Anonymity
I'm beginning to get annoyed at the number of retail food stores that
are enticing people into getting discount ID cards, and especially at the
number of people who are allowing themselves to be enticed. We've
already been through the documentation meat grinder on ID for almost everything.
Now, they want us to present a card for a cash transaction at a food store.
The inducement is the discount. However, there are sinister implications
associated with using a card to buy food. The cards are presently
innocuous, but they might not stay that way. I'll pay cash for my
food, and I'll do it anonymously.
Profit
and Punishment Besides that, it isn't a discount. It should
be obvious that the stores can sell products at the "discount" prices and
still make a profit. Otherwise, they'd raise the "discount" prices
to a level that would enable them to make a profit. That being the
case, the "discount" prices are actually the prices at which the stores
ought to be selling their products. The regular prices are excessive.
That is, the regular prices are higher than is necessary to make a profit.
That casts the "discount" cards in a whole new light. The stores
aren't giving a discount to the card holders. They're selling at
the normal price to the card holders and imposing a penalty on the people
who don't have cards. They're charging those people a higher price,
presumably as a punishment for withholding whatever personal information
they'd have provided if they'd applied for a card.
Permission
As more and more food stores offer cards and as more and more people
get them, the influence of people who don't have the cards will diminish.
When some critical proportion of customers uses cards, then the people
who don't have the cards will not have any influence at all. Then,
the cards can be made mandatory. Seem silly? Don't think it
for an instant. There are already retail stores wherein cards are
mandatory. Sam's Club (how ironic) is one example that comes to mind.
You can't shop there at all unless you have their card. So, more
and more food stores will make their cards mandatory. It will get
more and more difficult for people without cards to get food. That's
how we controlled the animals at the farm where I lived for the past seven
years. We controlled their access to food.
Once
everybody (almost) has cards for the food stores, it will be easy to legislate
a mandatory ration card requirement. Who's going to object except
for the very small minority of people like me who refused to apply for
cards? We already need government ID for almost everything else.
We need it to drive, to have a job, to get married, and so forth.
Our present ability to buy food without permission is a huge loophole in
the web of control established by the government. As long as we can
obtain cash somewhere and buy food without permission, we can just do without
the other stuff and evade the control imposed by the government.
However, once we need a government ration card to buy food, our gooses
are cooked. The legislation will be enacted and that will be that.
No card, no food.
So,
the next time the perky little sweetie at the cash register asks for your
discount card, tell her no and tell her why. Maybe you could even
give her a copy of this article. If enough of us object to this process
before it goes much further, then maybe we can stop it. If not, remember
the way the animals at the farm came running when we called them, so they
could have their hay and rolled barley.
Baa,
baa. Moo, moo. Here's my card.
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