For example -
This Passover, I had a telling reminder when I learned for the first time that only an estimated 20 percent of the Jews left Egypt during the Exodus. The other 80 percent chose to remain in the comfort of what they knew—slavery. (These figures come from the medieval French rabbi Rashi, one of the most revered Talmudic scholars.)
Our slavery comes in an electric form. Only a few days ago, the following was announced in The New York Times:
"The Biden administration is planning some of the most stringent auto pollution limits in the world, designed to ensure that all-electric cars make up as much 67 percent of new passenger vehicles sold in the country by 2032." Currently, the same article reports, they are around 5.8 percent.
Leadership! Management by Objectives!
This information basically coincides with the announcement by the Federal Reserve Bank of the new FedNow payments system to debut in July. As CNBC explains it, "The system will allow bill payments, money transfers, and other consumer activities to move more rapidly and at lower cost."Oh, good. They add: "Some Fed officials say the program even could supplant the need for a central bank digital currency."
Note the use of the word "could." More likely, this really is a big step toward a central bank digital currency.
Simultaneously their overlords at NBC inform us "DeSantis and RFK Jr. misconstrue Fed’s digital plans in warning of government overreach."
Apparently, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, erroneously in the network’s view, alleged that digital currency would enable the government to block the purchase of a rifle or "too much gas."
Of course, it could. But NBC gives away the real story—most likely inadvertently—in one sentence:
"The Fed is exploring the idea to keep up with countries that have moved to implement their own digital currencies, such as China."
"Such as," indeed. I guess it’s okay for U. S. government agencies to emulate the Chinese Communist Party these days.
I take heart, however, that putative presidential candidates from both parties, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a Democrat and DeSantis as a Republican, are vociferously objecting.