MONEY: A suggested little L libertarian boycott of small change?

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

https://survivalblog.com/2025/10/29/survivalblog-readers-editors-snippets-236/

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James Wesley Rawles
October 29, 2025

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Libertarians have many of the right answers to the problems facing the United States and need to be heard loud and clear above the confusion disseminated by the mainstream media and their lackeys in government, all bought and paid for by the crony capitalists of Wall Street.

If all of the nickels and pennies in circulation rather suddenly disappeared, it would generate a lot of media attention and curiosity on the part of the public. It would be a brilliant protest against the devaluation of our currency and the debasement of the Republic by the bankers and their ilk. Change could be made only to the nearest dime.

There are roughly 140 billion pennies and 28 billion nickels in circulation. It would “cost” only $2.8 billion dollars to remove them all from circulation. If we can find 2.8 million libertarians to each accumulate $1000 of pennies and nickels, we will be heard loud and perhaps clear. I use the quotes on “cost” to indicate that it actually could be quite profitable to remove these coins from circulation.

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I’m in for that boycott!

And, the Mint is stopping making pennies soon.  Next year? 

Count me in!

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p.s., Shoprite in Marlboro is also requesting that if you have any extra pennies to spare, donate them at the customer service counter so they can continue to make proper change. 2025-Oct-31 1036

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RANT: Google-driven search tools have somehow changed their algorithms in some way, deterring folks from seeing SurvivalBlog

Monday, May 19, 2025

https://survivalblog.com/2025/05/14/survivalblog-readers-editors-snippets-212/

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I noticed that SurvivalBlog site visits took a dive, starting on April 20th. Apparently, Google and other Google-driven search tools have somehow changed their algorithms in some way, deterring folks from seeing SurvivalBlog when they search for preparedness information. To compensate for this recent drop in visits, I’d like to ask a favor of my regular readers: Please let your cousins, friends, co-workers, fellow church congregants, and shootin’ buddies know about SurvivalBlog. Please tell them that we now have more than 40,000 archived articles, columns, and quotes — all freely available. Thanks! – JWR

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It’s really sad when Google goes to the “dark side”.  Weren’t they the non-evil folks?  

All I want from a search engine is a prejudiced-free collection of links.  I don’t mind if they throw one or two ads at the top as long as they are identified as ads.

Argh!

This seems like bias to me.

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