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The decayed and degraded state of moral
and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is
worth war is much worse."John Stuart Mill
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Posted on 08/27/2016 2:38:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
It's almost the end of the second month and we still have a ways to go. We need to be wrapping this baby up soon.
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Make it a monthly if you can. We have some very generous FReeper sponsors kicking in an extra ten bucks for every new monthly signed up. And we have 56 new monthlies so far this quarter.
Or send in a hundred dollars or more per quarter and join I_be_tc's growing list of 300 Club patriots. I_be_tc sends in $100 per quarter and challenges 300 others to do the same. If we could get 300 FReepers to send in $100 per quarter, these FReepathons would complete much faster. And we now have 146 donations this quarter of $100 or more!!
A post I made several days ago about why monthlies are important:
If we could get our monthly figure over $15,000 then they would represent $45,000 total for the quarter. That’s over half of our goal.
If my math is correct, with $15,000 in monthlies, we could possibly be ending our fundraisers in under 30-40 days every quarter.
If we have a new fundraiser starting with a goal of $88,000 and it gets to about $30,000 (in three weeks or so) we could accrue the $45,000 in monthlies and our new total would be $75,000 and there’d be only about $13,000 left to go.
With a big push we could probably raise that in a week to ten days and we’re done.
In other words, at $15,000 per month in monthlies, our fundraisers would complete in half the time they take now.
If we could get to $20,000 per month in monthlies they’d probably take less than three weeks to complete.
If we could get to $30,000 per month in reliable monthlies, we wouldn’t need fundraisers at all.
Currently, we have about 630 monthlies totaling approx $11,000 per month or about $17.50 per monthly donation.
To get to $15,000 in monthlies we’d need to keep those we have and add about 225 New Monthly Donors at about the same average.
A lofty goal, perhaps, but doable.
But it's also important to note that if you are donating quarterly, or annually or otherwise, whatever is best for you works great for us.
By the way, we've added about 20 new monthlies in the last few days since that was written. Go, monthlies, GO!!
Thank you all very much!!
God bless.
Jim, within a month or two I plan to up my monthly.
Thank you very much, lysie!!
All right, you convinced me Jim. Another $60.00 is on it’s way from Pennsylvania.
Thank you very much, EvilCapitalist!!
Every little bit helps.
This Freepathon should never need to happen if everyone would pay their fair share!
This is truly embarrassing and it happens every three months.
FR is a god send and most here are using it as a Pi$$ing post and I’m embarrased by those who call themselves FREEPERS but refuse to pay their own way.
I’m very worried about the survival of this great website.
A lofty goal, perhaps, but doable...
What’s lofty. Giving up a freaking trip to Wendy’s once a month. Skipping a movie. Renting a few less videos.
I’ll throw another 10 and except for those on a fixed income every breathing person on this Board should be donating ANYTHING monthly to the most important conservative website in the country. Maybe the world.
How much is freedom worth to all of you?
Not much, apparently, if it takes 80 ####ing days to pay off a lousy 88k.
You’ll pay 10s of thousands more under Hillary.
I’ll check back later to see if I can still log on!
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state of moral
and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is
worth war is much worse."John Stuart Mill
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Thank you, Jane!
Thank you, lysie!
Thank you, EvilCapitalist!
Thank you..
Randy Larsen!
Thank you...
dp0622!
"Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment
(in American democracy)
and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing
that they leave us and our freedoms intact."
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I lost it a little but that happens when i see how many days it takes for thousands of people to pay off such a small amount.
Sorry!
"Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master." Demosthenes
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Thank you, friend.
It says “Thank you for your contribution. Your comment has been submitted for review.” "message and your account is to new to send email". Been here since Jan so I shouldn't have this problem.
Happy to contribute after its fixed
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