Posts Tagged ‘poverty’

Should Fundamentalist Churches and groups be heavily taxed?

Only the ones that adhere to these qualities
1. Are a nuissance to the community, such as open air preacher organizations, politically motivated groups, the WBC, Liberty University, CBN,
2. Dont provide any worthwhile services to the community, like helping those in need.

Benefits:
1. Tax breaks for the common man
2. More money for necessary services like universities, schools, healthcare and poverty rehab
3. Theres a greater chance their organization could go bankrupt, and they would lose their cult
4. They steal so much money by selling junk, collecting tithes and costly talks just to hear some lame sermon about how your garbage. So they dont deserve any of the money they get.

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Can you die from bariatric surgery?

A woman in our community has a history of lying to people to get money. Her stories conflict with each other so most people are onto her. However, prior to most people catching on, as most of us believed her, she had several fundraisers, claiming she had cancer. To some people, she then claimed to have a miracle healing. To others, she claimed to be on her death bed. She lost a lot of weight, but never her hair. The cancer she was claiming is rare. Only 78 people in the US have it.

She started going into the school and complaining about the sutures in her stomach opening and fluid leaking. She talked about how narrow her esophagus is and how it is hard to eat. She then got really super thin and said she had scar tissue in her stomach from her cancer surgery. she then explained, as if maybe someone found out where she was being treated and needed to cover in case that leaked out…."The reason I’m getting treatment on the bariatric floor is because the cancer specialists didn’t know how to deal with my scar tissue." She worked for the schools and, due to her history of lying, the principal told her she would need a pathology report. She refused stating it was none of her business to ask for something like that.

Is it possible that she raised over 30, 000 dollars from a poverty stricken community to have bariatric surgery? I should mention that she died a few days ago. Can you die from that? It may sound horrible of me because she died, but the people who donated their paychecks to her have since lost their homes. (We have the highest foreclosure rate in the county. Our town was hit hard by this economy). The church that donated 10, 000 dollars has since gone bankrupt. It angers me to think this was a scam.
oh and also, the reason her boss asked for the pathology report is because she said it was because she was holding a fundraiser through the school it was the policy. I’m not sure if thats a real policy but thats what she said.

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Is it fair to say the Democrats believe in meritocracy while Republicans believe in "inheritocracy"?

After all, President Clinton was born into poverty into a broken home and, by his own hand, fought his way to the top through hard work and talent.

On the other end of the spectrum, bush was born into a pampered life, and given his lack of skills and poor work ethic, he had to ride on his father’s coattails everywhere he went. How else was he going to gain admittance to Yale and Harvard with his dismal academic record? How else was he going to dodge the Vietnam War without his dad pulling strings to get him into the Texas Air National Guard? Who was going to fund all of his businesses and then bail him out when they all went bankrupt? So great were his father’s coattails that in 2000, before anyone had even SEEN a photograph of Bush Jr, Republicans had already ushered him in as their presidential candidate after only hearing he was his father’s son.

If Clinton represents the Democratic meritocracy, then Bush represents the Republican "inheritocracy". That’s fair, isn’t it?

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How is America a greater nation than Australia?

True, America has given the world more in terms of scientific advancements, military protection, etc., but what about day-to-day life? They don’t have job lock because their insurance isn’t tied to employment, they have freedom of speech, assembly and religion…and, yes, you can own a firearm in Australia —-look it up instead of listening to propaganda! They have a high per-capita income also and a reasonable tax rate, no one goes bankrupt over medical problems….so why do so many Americans say that their country is the greatest on Earth when Australia appears to be a pretty great place as well? Some could argue that it’s actually greater.
So, Australia is not the centre of the English-speaking world and they don’t have the bread basket that America has, what good are those two things if you’re not doing well in America? So what if Australia isn’t the centre and doesn’t have a fertile interior….we’re talking about day-to-day life of an Aussie versus a Yank, and from what I am reading, it sounds like the average Aussie has it better these days. Flame away with ignorant comments about the "poverty, fascism, illiteracy, violence and socialism" of this foreign land and how much they suffer and all want to immigrate to America. Australia’s great.

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