While I am not for abandoning the dollar I wouldn’t mind an alternative coin currency that is actually made out of gold or silver for business transactions within the state or States.

Here is my proposal to add to the mix. Why not have a universal state coin where it is actually made of gold (or silver) in various currencies and that way there would be another inter-state currency along with the dollar that we can use for trade and business within the states? By virtue of the coins being made of gold or silver they would have more perceived value and worth than a piece of paper.

The coins would be minted similar to coins that are minted at different presses now under strict standards and supervision. I submit that it would also create more jobs with people accepting the coins, moving back to handling commerce face-to-face and locally versus the Internet.

I wouldn’t like to see it devolve into dozens of states with their own currencies – that would make us as messy as Europe or the early United States. The American dollar does work great as a tool for commerce, thanks, but it wouldn’t hurt to actually deal with gold and silver just in case.

Let me know your thoughts.

Stay healthy, happy, wise and get wealthy!

Kim Isaac Greenblatt

Feb 03 2012

States Minting Their Own Gold and Silver

There was a lot of ground covered and the scenarios we covered were very interesting. Hoping all of you are having a great holiday and I will try to get back to posting more often.

If you are free on early Wed nights I can be heard checking in and sometimes taking check-ins with Steve-another of many people named Steve, KILOV, on the PAPA system from So Cal. That is Wed nights at 7 pm Pacific time. You can look for it as well at the radioreference.com website.

Stay healthy and happy.

Kim Greenblatt

November 24 2011
Passed the First Responder Training

Kim Isaac Greenblatt

Thanks NASA for listening to me

My rationale for this is that we can create whatever money we need and if we go deeper into debt, the trade off is that there will be businesses in America employing people and getting their profits and people working again. This worked in the 1960s in the space race and in the 1980s it helped end the Cold War. Spending by government isn’t bad if it is done in a rational way and the money actually gets in the hands of the government’s citizens, right? Debt is also something that can be erased or added to with a stroke of computer key or brush of a finger on a touch screen depending on how it is done. The point is – are people working?

Companies along with their tax breaks could get limited use of any patents that they would create but the US govt would share in revenues as part of the incentive cash for building the spacecraft, the stations or whatever else we need to get people to Mars.

We can start a very early stage terraforming mandate where we get large companies to start researching what it would take to convert Mars into a viable planet that we could inhabit. Sure, my suggestions may be a little kooky but the time has come for some out there suggestions and my proposals aren’t that far out there. In hindsight was it a lot of money spent to get a person on the moon just so they could hit golf balls? Maybe if you didn’t factor in all the great accomplishments technologically that came out of the program.

Have a great day everybody and may you be happy, healthy, getting some cash and keeping your sanity.

Kim Greenblatt

How do I save America – We Go To Mars

If you watch any of the pawnshop or antique shows (and I’ve stated in the past that I am just as guilty as you are) you see people trying to wheel and deal over buying and selling collectible items. It is interesting but only to a point.

Maybe it is my attention span getting shorter or the fact that I wish the television producers would try to express a little more creativity. I am tired of seeing people at pawnshops getting snarky retorts about how their junk isn’t worth the full price and then they sell it for fifty percent of the value. I get it. It is entertainment and some of it is scripted but what next?

How about a tv show where paint drys and we watch that? Same holds true for antique road show collector types who go to people’s farms and try to lowball them out of their items and then they smirk and wink into the camera “look how much money I made”.

At least in the auction unclaimed storage shows some of them admit they are recreations. Wonder how much of them are scripted.

Then we get the tv shows about hoarding which are the other side of the coin. We have been brainwashed into thinking everything is collectible. It can be if there are markets but right now, people are tight on cash except for those who are very well off or have great income streams. Are we being groomed to be a nation of people now with no material goods and super low expectations but great bargaining skills? Let me know your thoughts.

Okay, I am done for now. Stay comfortable people and please write your Congressional leaders and the President and tell them we need jobs at a local level and fast!

Aug 25 2011

Kim Isaac Greenblatt

One Nation Under Junk Collecting

Look for either changes to the Schedule C and/or changes to the Form 1040 later on for more information or through the IRS website.

Las Vegas was a nice 101 to 106 degrees while I was there and I had a good time at the convention. I am not defending or criticizing the IRS but I have to compliment them because the sheer volume of work that they have to get done for a thankless job is pretty impressive so thanks for being there guys (and ladies).

There were a decent number of software vendors and sales reps at the show and some of their products were interesting. If I have the time I will post more later on.

Stay cool and comfortable gang!

Aug 19 2011

Kim Isaac Greenblatt

Upcoming Changes to Sch C for 2011 – 2012

What has been odd is that places like Radio Shack (which use to heavily support ham radio sales) is not the place to go anymore – weird since they are trying to get the trendy name “The Shack” going. They cell GPS thingies, cell phone stuff and their electronic stuff but not really a lot of ham products (at least here on the West Coast). A few stores are profitable with ham sales since they are the few surviving stores that help sell to government and emergency services support people (and heck, hobbyists too). So far the ham operators I have met and talked with seem like good people. Good to know in case of an emergency and cell phones are dead.

Hope everybody is doing well and they are safe and sane.

I am back teaching tax classes – just a reminder if you have any tax questions for me as well.

Take care.

Kim Isaac Greenblatt

KJ6QLH – my call sign

We have tos stop our interdependence on the world and go back to taking care of ourselves fiscally. The way to do that is to create work that will be profitable and encourage companies to come and stay in the US and not flee. At the same time, companies are getting incredible tax breaks and they need to be fair about this as well because developing nations aren’t developing as much and people internationally are running out of cash and steam.

Maybe I am wrong on this but with what appears to be about 42% unemployment I think that it is time to scream at our politicians and make them do something or limit their terms and vote them out now.

Just sayin’.

Good luck everybody.

We Need To Make J O B S F A S T

We need to get more jobs going and the only odd thing about that is that neither Congress nor our President have introduced anything in the proposed changes that will create jobs at a local level for people who are in need of money and work.

Taxes aren’t going to be paid by Americans who are out of work. It just won’t work – they won’t have any money. If something isn’t done to encourage businesses to start spending more on local communities and making it worth while to create work, I fear for what is going to happen in the future.

We need more incentives to create jobs, local manufacturing, and industry opportunity zones throughout the country and not just localized in some parts of cities that are in urban chaos. The incentives have to be for American citizens who are out of work to get hired and it has to be that business will get rewarded for starting up shop and getting and keeping employees. I am just sayin. Things won’t change overnight but there is no need to wait for the doomsayers to hit 2012, we are having a pretty bad time as a nation overall right now.

Write the President and Congress and tell them to get the debt ceiling in place, start creating and encouraging local, American jobs. That is what we need to get the nation back on its feet.

We need to cut overseas spending and get more incentives locally here in the United States to get work going and people off their butts.

Thanks for listening and have a good weekend.

July 29 2011

Kim Isaac Greenblatt

Want to know something odd The numbers 1,3,5,7,11,13

Don’t get me wrong, I love Metal Slug, the old SNK vid game that has been ported over to a bunch of systems over the years. It was just weird realizing it while I was watching the Cap movie. The action is good but I wish the movie hadn’t ripped off the vid game so directly at times. Just sayin’.

Go see it, enjoy it and make your own decision. I bet the flick is gonna be very profitable regardless of what I say.

Jul 22 2011

Kim Isaac Greenblatt

Captain America movie is good but is Metal Slug