Scars by Patience Prence

Author:Patience Prence
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: christian fiction
Publisher: Patience Prence

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After Dad and David were gone, with no hope of finding them, Momma became cold and indifferent toward Becky. She would leave the house for work before Becky had awakened. When she returned in the evenings she went straight to her room without saying a word.

On her days off, Momma sat on the couch in her nightgown and watched the world news. She obsessed over every development, every breaking story.

Maitreyas was made the top advisor to the World Union which had adopted his ideas for strengthening the world economy through a new monetary policy that worked like a barter system.

The ten unions were linked together under one financial system managed by the World Union Bank. Paper currency and coins were made obsolete.

Units of electronic debits and credits were distributed to all people worldwide. This electronic information was stored in a microchip placed on a plastic card or bracelet with a global positioning device.

This card system and the new “cashless society” were hailed as revolutionary and the beginning of a new age. It was the answer to everything from tax evasion, drug use and crime to poverty and illness. People were encouraged to use their cards for more than just financial data but also for their personal history, health and ID.

With the adoption of this system the familiar Amero became useless. Becky could still remember going to the bank with her father to exchange the family’s American dollars for the new, brightly colored Ameros.

The global financial crisis had rendered the once-mighty American dollar worthless. An emergency session of Congress was called, and the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America Act was passed. Overnight the borders between Mexico, Canada and the United States were erased, and the North American Union was born. Everyone hoped the new government and the new currency, the Amero, would help restore stability and prosperity.

Dad stashed a few Abraham Lincoln and George Washington dollar bills away for keepsakes. He said he thought they might be worth something someday. Now the Amero was just as worthless as the old, green American dollars.

Peter Roma’s power reached far beyond reshaping the churches into one universal church. His voice was very loud in politics. He claimed the card system did not do enough to solve humanity’s problems. He said people could lose or misplace their cards while criminals could rob and steal the card and wipe out a person’s bank account. His solution was to have the chip implanted under the skin. With the insertion of the chip they could also track criminals and locate lost children. He pushed hard for lawmakers to create this legislation. Only weeks before this bill was to be brought to a vote before the World

Union, Israel shocked the world by obliterating the city of Damascus with a bomb. The oldest city in the world was reduced to a “heap of rubble.”14 This was a major blow to the nation of Islam, and the world waited for certain retaliation.

But Maitreyas threw all of his political power and influence behind a truce between the nation of Islam and Israel.

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