[Vision Thing]

I've always heard that the more you give, the more you get. Here's someone's attempt at proving it.

If this has always been true, perhaps it'll explain why lib dems hate charitable giving: It enrichens the giver. And we all know how lib dems don't want anyone to become richer, especially if its not from the efforts of their big government programs.

[padre35]

As an abstract, the poor will spend the money, and increase economic activity in the community and that raises everyone's boat as it were as the money stays in the community for the most part. Plus, the Laws of God have never been repealed to mankind's detriment...

[VxH]

Winfield Scott Stratton

 

 

Itinerant Carpenter Strikes It Rich
By Ed Hunter, Victor

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"Stratton continued to practice his quiet acts of philanthropy after the sale when the world thought he would buy mansions and yachts to demonstrate his financial success. Instead, he built the Mining Exchange building in Colorado Springs, donated land for the Downtown Post Office building construction and donated a park to the city for people to enjoy. Stratton also purchased and expanded the trolley car line in Colorado Springs for the benefit of the public."

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[LZ_Bayonet]

The more LOCAL the charity and the oversight of fund dispensation, the more it gets to where it is really needed.

[flat]

Speaking anecdotally i can say this.....throughout my life, every time i got a raise in pay i raised my weekly contribution to the basket they passed around at Mass by Five Bucks. And every time i did that shortly thereafter more raises came AND promotions and things like higher per diems and business travel allowances... and along the way the stock market soared and i pulled out at the peak just before it plunged...im up to 80 bucks a week at present....i’m tellin ya each time i raised the amount that i gave; eventually way more than that came back to me...it’s happened time after time after time....way beyond coincidence.

[RightOnline]

It’s also quite Biblical. Tithing is more than just a concept to many Christians (unfortunately, not all). Look at the very last page of the Old Testament, in Malachi. In there is the ONLY place in the Bible where God says, in effect, “hey....TRY me on this; just TRY me”......when He is addressing tithing.

Tithe....and I absolutely, positively guarantee you that you will prosper economically. It is patently impossible to out-give God.

Great folks out there like Jerry Savelle have been preaching this for YEARS. He gives more per year than most upper class Americans even make...and more pours in every year. Accordingly, he gives more. As he put it once recently when I saw him speak at our church in NC..”Some try to give me grief for how much money I make. Whenever I hear that, I don’t get angry; I merely respond with ‘oh yeah? well check out my GIVING first, THEN come talk to me’”. He’s right.

[lepton]

I’d expect that personal giving and government giving are applied very differently. Personal giving involves individual judgements, such as whether the recipient is truly in need, and whether the gift will improve the recipients situation. A small gift to fix up a car and keep the recipient going to work keeps a lot of capital from being idle or otherwise tied up and useless. A government payment, on the other hand, tends to increase idleness and destruction of wealth.

[Hornitos]

59. Huan / Dispersion [Dissolution]

above SUN THE GENTLE, WIND
below K'AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER

Six in the fourth place means:
He dissolves his bond with his group.
Supreme good fortune.
Dispersion leads in turn to accumulation.
This is something that ordinary men do not think of.

When we are working at a task that affects the general welfare, we must leave all private friendships out of account. Only by rising above party interests can we achieve something decisive. He who has the courage thus to forego what is near wins what is afar. But in order to comprehend this standpoint, one must have a wide view of the interrelationships of life, such as only unusual men attain.

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Would that the Kuwaitis had learned this lesson in the 1980's. They were wealthy, and ignored their poor brethren, who in turn turned on them and supported Saddam Hussein's invasion.

[VRWC For Truth]

My federal taxes enrich those in DC. I doubt increasing DC’s wealth is in my interest.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

(While people have differing amounts of money, they all have the same amount of time.)

Not really. When you have less money you also have less time because you can not afford to buy time savers. Everything takes a little longer when you have to do it the economy way.

[the invisib1e hand]

sound analysis always winds up agreeing with God’s word.