1. thirty-nine percent of adults who make more than $100,000 have used entitlement benefits at one point, compared with 70 percent of people who make less than $30,000, according to the pew study.. 2.. the average monthly food stamp benefit is $133.42 for an individual, according to the department of agriculture, which administers the program.
the rate is highest in hawaii ($213.65) and lowest in minnesota ($115.98).
in fiscal year 2012, 46.6 million people (in 22.3 million households) received food stamps, and the federal government spent $74.6 billion on the program that year.. 3. .
I do not know if Romney had won the presidency, all those entittlements would have been slashed or eliminated altogether.
Since you started the thread, I'm curious about your opinion on the subject. Are you in favor of eliminating any of the entitlement programs? Which ones, and why?
going for a word by word bible reading/study with a jw, no literature involved and maybe using more than one versions.
is that a wise move and is there any advantage?.
The Watchtower Corporation has been refining their indoctrination techniques for decades, so be very careful. I'm not implying that individual JW's have an insidious agenda to recruit you into the cult, they're simply doing what they're told. They merely use the indoctrination techniques the Watchtower teaches them.
I strongly recommend that you read "Combatting Cult Mind Control" by Steven Hassan. You can get it used off Amazon.com for a very reasonable price, the information it contains is priceless. It will help you understand the mindset of JW's.
JWfacts is also a great resource to find out what the Watchtower really teaches. http://www.jwfacts.com/
not sure how to approach this but here goes.....my wife discovered a porn site on the computer tonight.
yes, i was going to them, and i was foolish to think i could never get caught.
i have been visiting them for some years, not a daily problems, but occasionaly every month or so - still a problem wethere its once or a hundred times.
Is your wife outraged at the pornography, or merely the act of masturbating?
I think you're both blowing it way out of proportion, it's not that big of a deal. Let her cool off for a while.
http://www.examiner.com/article/westboro-church-plans-to-picket-at-sandy-hook-elementary-school-praising-god.
They're professional trolls; don't let their behavior upset you too much.
the recent socal rain storms had me needing to go to a launrdomat to dry some clothes.
so i get inside and see that one of the friendly neighborhood jehovah's witnesses has left a little dish of spiritual food.
being the benevolent soul that i am, i took my handy pen and added some additional spice to the bland spiritual food offered by the watchtower.. .
I love it. Much more effective than throwing them in the trash.
a. douchebag.. http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/huckabee-schools-place-of-carnage-because-we-systematically.
former arkansas governor mike huckabee attributed the mass shooting at sandy hook elementary school in part to restrictions on school prayer and religious materials in the classroom.
"we ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed god from our schools," huckabee said on fox news, discussing the murder spree that took the lives of 20 children and 6 adults in newtown, ct that morning.
There were many ways Huckabee could have approached the "Why did God allow this?" question. I can't believe he blamed it on the lack of prayer in public schools. What a douche. You would think that as a pastor, Huckabee would've been able to offer a more comforting answer to the parents and loved ones of the people killed. The odds are that most of the parents are Christians, who do pray to God, and haven't removed God from their lives. I wonder if Huckabee has any idea how offensive his response is to those parents.
Is there any evidence to support the claim that Jones was a CIA operative?
don't know what happened there!!!!!!.
>start again ................ >.
the fact that wbts is progressively dumbing down it's followers.
But aside from that, why would 'the elite' be using such indiscriminate methods to 'reduce the population'? For example, by what means are 'the elite' 'shielded' from WiFi?
Aluminum foil underwear?
don't know what happened there!!!!!!.
>start again ................ >.
the fact that wbts is progressively dumbing down it's followers.
Resistance is Futile, fascism has an environmental facade that you have bought hook-line-and-sinker.
That's a pretty bold statement. Are you implying that people who actually care about the environment are fascists?
The "smart" grid and the whole environmental movement is a ruse and a pretext for world government and land grabbing.
Well that's certainly an interesting theory. Would you be willing to acknowledge that perhaps there's an alternate, more reasonable motivation behind people's concern for the environment they live in?
An example of the hypocrisy of this phony green movement is its founder, Maurice Strong. This clown started the eco movement, yet he was the CEO of Petro-Canada, Canada's Crown petroleum producer.
I've never heard of Maurice Strong. But for the sake of discussion let's say that before Maurice Strong there wasn't one human being alive that had concern for the condition of the environment. Let's even go so far as saying that Mr. Strong is an evil, hypocritical, puppy kicking, maniacal monster. Would it be reasonable to then assume that anyone else who came along after Mr. Strong and expressed concern for the environment they live in must logically also be hypocritical "clowns" bent on world domination?
Clarity, if it makes you feel any better, the dumbing down process (cultural decline) is happening on a global scale
Do you have any evidence to support this claim? How exactly would you quantify this "cultural decline"? Literacy rates? Standardized tests? While personal anecdotes are always amusing and entertaining, I'd really prefer actual scientific evidence if you're going to attempt to support this claim.
don't know what happened there!!!!!!.
>start again ................ >.
the fact that wbts is progressively dumbing down it's followers.
I realize that you're referring to a worldwide conspiracy, but in the US the historical trend is that education levels are rising.
