by metatron 13 Replies latest jw friends
If you look in your various Yearbooks, you'll find that the Society makes a statement each year about
how much money they supposedly spend supporting the preaching work. In the late '90's it was
around 60 million. I recall that the latest Yearbook showed that this figure about doubled.
Has the publisher average doubled in this time period? Not even close. Expenses are running ahead
of publisher growth - and that explains a lot concerning these endless cutbacks and layoffs.
metatron
Anyone wanna help them out with a loan?
I too think about the amount of people coming out mentally at least from the org in droves that have stopped donating to their funds. They are still present in body, still being added in to the publisher figures but they are really far removed from the org.
Good point R.F., there are many people 'in' the org that would never give them a cent.
The only money put in the boxes is from donations given while going door to door.
As far as it goes for me....I wouldn't give them a penny found on the street.
If I recall correctly, the number in the year book is for missionary type work only. So I assume it would include missionaries, special pioneers, and maybe CO's. They don't spend a cent on anyone else.
So, it's really not surprising that the number has changed to that extent. A decade or two of inflation and some fluctuation in numbers would easily account for it.
a statement each year abouthow much money they supposedly spend supporting the preaching work
I think the number has become fictional. They probably lump in other stuff now.
I think the lawsuits will be figured into this, but broken into a few years to make the
numbers stay higher from here-on.
Or they are playing with the books to assign money to "the preaching work". A charity shouldn't be turning a profit if it wants to maintain their tax exempt status.
I would like to see their expenses really spike when all the lawsuits end up in Time magazine and they have to pay the balloon. Not only would that make them go belly-up, but the Time magazines will sit there in doctors' and dentists' waiting areas for months after they come out. And then people would be even less inclined to give them any money. That ought to do them in, at least financially. And hopefully they get p$ poor offers on their properties that they are selling off: I hope they start losing huge amounts of money on that when people that are buying realize that it is for a horrible cause.
Good point, meta, as usual.
The Watchtower has been sowing the seeds of its own fiscal demise from the beginning. Now that new recruits are almost exclusively coming from the underdeveloped world, the picture looks bleak. When I was a JW I was too poor to contribute much, so I'm not as angry as some who threw large sums at them.
Here's to their experiencing the poverty they asked all of us to endure,
SandraC
