Austria Offers Free Transportation for Tattoos


Armstrong Economics Blog/Climate Re-Posted Sep 12, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

Notice how all of the voluntary actions connected to the Great Reset include preying upon the young or desperate. These will be the first people to move into 15-minute cities and abide by tyrannical laws in exchange for government aid. They handed out free crypto in Africa in exchange for biometric data, for example. In Austria, the government is offering free transportation to anyone who chooses to tattoo their Climate Ticket (Klimaticket) on their skin as a walking sponsorship for the New World Order.

It sounds like a bad radio marketing gimmick. The Klimaticket grants users access to all public and private transportation for one year at the cost of €1,095. However, those who permanently mark their body with an ode to the Klimaticket will receive free transportation, but only for one year. You’d have to be extremely desperate or stupid to agree to those terms. Austrian Climate Minister Leonore Gewessler said the initiative will help the country grow closer to their goals of the Paris Agreement. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) would like to reduce private car ownership by 16% before 2024, claiming transportation is the largest carbon pollutant.

“Action that gets under your skin,” banners appeared at popup parlors during various summer events. Gewessler had a temporary tattoo inked on her body reading “Gewessler takes the lead.” A look at the comment section shows how negatively this program was received. “For me it really doesn’t make sense at all how you can encourage young people to have political advertisements for the rest of their lives and that has NO consequences for the Federal Minister,” one user on X wrote. “This has been carried out with great care. It is only done during daylight and only offered to people over the age of 18,” Gewessler said, adding that “the people who get the tattoos mostly already have some.”

So, it is ok to permanently brand your body with a message from the government by her standards. NEOS party lawmaker Henrike Brandstötter also bashed the plan. “Offering people money for putting advertising under their skin reveals an unacceptable view of humanity from a government minister,” she declared on X. Again, governments are targeting desperate people who will jump at the opportunity to save $1,180 USD for one year or about three euros per day. They’ve accepted the mark without hesitation.

Men are from Mars & Women are from Venus


Armstrong Economics Blog/Opinion Re-Posted Sep 11, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Marty, I read the post where they said they needed to find you a 23-year-old wife so she will keep you active so you can continue to blog. I am over 40, and things have changed. Yes, there is an abundant supply of 23 to 33-year-olds. But they only want arrangements and hookups, not relationships and certainly not children. Bill Gates has done his job. He has brainwashed the young, and good luck finding one, even in their 30s, who would be serious.  The old saying they want someone with a flashy car no longer applies. That went out a long time ago.

MS

REPLY: I know what you are saying. That seems to be true to some extent. But then the girls complain that boys their age only want to play video games and live in their mother’s basement. Things have changed, and I hear them from younger people constantly. The funny thing was there was a woman in her early 30s. I opened the car door for her, and she was shocked. We were not on a date; it was just looking at real estate. I didn’t think about it; it was standard among my generation.

Just for the record, I have a few “flashy” cars, as you put it. I was in a parking lot with my BMW I8, and a guy and his girlfriend approached me and said, “Boy, I guess you get all the girls with this car.” I replied, no! – Just guys! I never had a woman come up to me because of a car – ever! Guys, all the time. How does it handle? How fast is the top end? etc, etc., etc.

Women are not generally impressed with cars more than a guy is impressed by her name, handbag, and matching shoes. That’s the old adage – Men are from Mars, and women are from Venus. Not sure I was a 23-year-old to keep me young. I have no intention of running for president when I am 90. I prefer a more mature person, but the pickings keep getting slimmer by the day.

Indeed, culturally, things have changed. I suppose that is part of the generational cycle.