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- Bible: Question, Answer and Discussion for 09-26-2014
- 5 U.S. Banks Each Have More Than 40 Trillion Dollars In Exposure To Derivatives
- Military to Allow Illegal Immigrants to Serve as Army Lays off 30,000 Troops
Posted: 26 Sep 2014 05:27 AM PDT Welcome to our bi-weekly post where we provide Bible verses, answers and advice to the questions and concerns you have. During the course of the last two weeks readers have submitted their questions and today we are going to answer some of them. So please join us and feel free to chime in on the discussion in the comments section below this post. Before we get into this week's questions we would like to point out that you are helping to spread the Word of God by your continued submission of questions. Because of your ongoing participation these Q&A posts have been read thousands of times. Without your participation this section of our site would not exist. So if you have a Biblical or non-Biblical question you would like to ask, submit it now for our next edition of "Bible: Question, Answer and Discussion". MORE: Continue Reading This Post >> |
Posted: 26 Sep 2014 05:44 AM PDT WEB Notes: I spoke with a gentlemen the other day and the economy came up. He mentioned things are getting better. When I asked him what has gotten better he said, "just things, people are working". I asked if he has paid attention to the rising cost of items in the grocery store? And if he understood more than 50,000,000 people in this nation are on welfare and that is not including those on SSI, etc. He moved in his seat a bit and said, but the unemployment numbers have fallen. I smiled and said, you have to do some research on that topic. You see, when a person stops looking for work or when they cannot receive any more aid from unemployment they fall off the books and the "numbers go down," but that person is still technically unemployed. He moved some more and said, "no, no that's not how it works". He mentioned that things have gotten much better than 2008 and admitted that he was worried back in 2008, but there was no reason to worry now, "because things have gotten better." I explained to him nothing has changed. The banks were given our tax dollars to save themselves, that is theft from the public and no wise investment decisions have been done at the banking institutions. I told him the bailouts will only make the collapse that much worse when it finally does happen, it just delayed the inevitable. MORE: Continue Reading This Post >> |
Posted: 26 Sep 2014 05:27 AM PDT Military to allow undocumented immigrants to serve (Source: USA Today) - A small number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. will have an opportunity to join the military for the first time in decades under a new Department of Defense policy unveiled Thursday. The new rules will expand an existing program allowing recruiters to target foreign nationals with high-demand skills, mostly rare foreign language expertise or specialized health care training. MORE: Continue Reading This Post >> |
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