With inflation, the vast majority of Americans will be at 200k income level pretty quickly.

Thinking | 3 December 2012 | Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin

[OneWingedShark]

Use a flat rate and there’s no need of indexing.

[MrB]

The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.

(don’t waste your time trying to harvest tares)

[OneWingedShark]

The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.
(don’t waste your time trying to harvest tares)

But how many "anti-christian" people are that way precisely because the Church does not [personally] do? (i.e. "Church-people are hypocrites" mentality.) And how many would be touched to have genuine love showed to them?

In short, it is not our place to judge 'tares' from 'wheat', because in doing so we elevate ourselves to Judge of Men's Souls & Hearts. (Though there is the stipulation of dusting off your feet, even that is not a refusal to spread the gospel.)

[cableguymn]

You do what you want. Please feel free to correct others. I personally don’t care. Keep that in mind if you feel the need to correct my posts.

[Josa]

Yes, you are right BUT Matthew 7:6 says “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and tear you.”

I have come to the conclusion that anyone who voted for obama after his first four years are the swine. I believe the obama voters are under a satanic delusion and thus unreachable.

[OneWingedShark]

There’s a lot to disagree with in that sentiment, _as you are applying it_.
First off, no human is a dog, the inherent attribute of being made on God’s image ensures this.
Secondly, Jesus’s “mission statement” was “to seek and save that which was lost.”
Third, the goal of every Christian is to become like Christ.

Thus, every Christian has a “standing order” to seek and save (the great commission is further, explicit proof).

[TexasRepublic]

I always wanted to be a zillionaire, but not if the government declares my income at the progressive 99.999% tax bracket.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

I had to check my memory. :)

First class letters and postcards

July 6, 1932
$0.03
$0.01

January 1, 1952
$0.03
$0.02

August 1, 1958
$0.04
$0.03

Notice it was 26 years between rate increases, then six years -- now what? 26 weeks? Source wiki graffiti.

I got ice-cold Coke in the classic glass bottles from a machine for a nickle in the early 50's.

.. soon the dime will be the penny and the dollar the dime. No one will think anything wrong with paying $25 for a loaf of bread -- unless it happens overnight.

[kearnyirish2]

“I look at how prices have tripled over the past 4 years and can’t believe it wasn’t a campaign issue.”

I agree; my town lost its Pathmark a few years after Wal-Mart opened up, and though some people said it was part of a bankruptcy restructuring the Pathmark had become a ghost town. Wal-Mart was killing them on prices, and no matter how unpleasant the Wal-Mart was (sandwiched between NEwark and Jersey City - you can imagine), people had no choice because of the inflation.

In the year leading up to the 2012 election the “media” would insert into any news stories on the economy: “Thankfully we don’t have inflation”.

[Josa]

Mark 4:4-8
King James Version (KJV)
4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.

5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:

6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.

I’ve sown seeds but what I’m saying is the obama voters are the rocky ground. The seed did not take root. Rocky ground is never going to produce a healthy, abundant crop.