Social Security Cost of Living Increase of 2.5%
Question: Did you get the same adjustment in your Social Security?
Please let me know along with your area of the nation?
I received a letter from the Social Security Commission today telling me I will get a cost of living increase in my monthly payments of 2.5%.
My mind drifted to ... eggs.
Then later as I ruminated over this blessing, I thought, "I live in West Michigan, an area known for voting Republican. Does the amount of the cost of living depend on what people might thing I pay for stuff? Do alterations of that amount change as you go from place to place in America?
Does who I vote for have any influence on the amount of money I've earned being dribbled back to me from the years of work I've already put in? "
My eggs cost more. Do your eggs cost more?
If "America" starts selling parts of The Wall at scrap prices, what would stop my government from seeing my cost of living would be less than people in areas known for voting for a group of criminals who would sell wall parts for scrap?
I feel President Trump will do all he can to right the ship, but right now, I'm thinking I have to decide if I'm going to buy eggs or more lube for my used food chute. After four years of Crimefamilynomics, I'm feeling kind of raw.
By the way, my increase will amount to $24
Good thing I planned long ago not to depend on my government.
A gang of goons, acting on the authority of King Zedekiah of Judah, threw the prophet Jeremiah into a pit.
Two of them were Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Gedaliah son of Pashur.
Both men have been historically corroborated through the archaeological discovery of clay seal impressions dated to the sixth century B.C. bearing their names.
And that’s me, below, in the actual pit into which Jeremiah was tossed. Debbie my wife took his short video of me in Jerusalem earlier this year.
But how did Jeremiah survive?
“Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs of the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon…” (Jeremiah 38:7)
So the king’s own men put Jeremiah in there, but a low-ranking Ethiopian decided to take matters into his own hands.
Ebed-melech approached the king—a daunting task that involved great personal risk—and remarkably got permission to get Jeremiah out.
It took 30 men to pull Jeremiah out since he was trapped in the caked mud at the ...
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WHERE DID THE EMPIRES GO?
One standard skeptical or minimalist claim, sustained over many decades, was that the royal kingdoms of King David and Saul must be mythical, because there were powerful empires in antiquity and Israel was certain to be subjugated by one of them.
The skeptics said the biblical narrative about David and Solomon’s reign—and especially the account of Solomon as a wise and powerful ruler of international repute—must be wildly exaggerated, if not completely made up.
The painting below depicts a biblical story about the wisdom of Solomon.
Surely, the skeptics said, these rulers if they existed would be under the sway of the great powers of antiquity: the Hittites, the Egyptians, the Babylonians or the Mycenaean Greeks.
But David and Solomon ruled around the 10th century B.C. And as it turns out, the great empires of antiquity had subsided by then, with some of them only reviving later, when they were in a position to invade and occupy Israel.
The Hittite empire disintegrated ...
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