Spread the wealth is one of those great ideas-when you happen to be poor and want someone else’s money. For example, I am all for it at the moment. If I won the lottery-well, not so much. Since most Americans will never make $250,000 dollars a year, it is easy to think taking some of that money and giving it to those less fortunate would be a good idea. Huey Long was big on this idea of taking from the rich and giving to the poor. He got killed by the way. There are a lot stats that say wealth…
Category: money
Tithing- Begging for Jesus
The top story on CBS Sunday Morning this week was about tithing, the main method many churches use to raise money. The idea is to give ten percent of all you earn to the church. But some people don’t like what is being done with the ten percent and some people believe that tithing is just flat wrong. I’m a portrait photographer for a company that makes church directories-we go into churches and we take money out of them. Our business is selling portraits-not giving away free 8x10s and free directories. And sometimes we run into ministers who are shocked-shocked!-to…
If You Write It
Or maybe it should be, if you blog it.I have recently taken a more serious interest in the blogging again. Not serious enough to go out and find people to read and leave comments with, but serious enough to think that maybe there should be a bit more to it. So I have set up accounts on Dig and Netscape and have submitted a couple of my posts to them. I am starting to feel that old tingle of hope that writing is something I can do and make money.Blogging for dollars, anyone need a freelance blogger? Anyone?
When the Student is Ready
I was watching Opera today, which not a very common thing for me. I used to watch her when she was competing with good old Phil for the top spot in Chicago, but that was a million years or so ago. She used to have a show just like all the others, cheating husbands, run away kids, foods that will kill you, cheating wives, bad news of the day, cheating lovers. . .but then something odd happened-she became mind numbingly rich. And like the Beatles before her, she came to realize that she was put on this earth to do…