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.
Before debating free will, you have to start with the Calvinist view of God.
In Calvinism, God doesn’t merely permit or allow events to happen—He decrees them.
That distinction changes the entire debate over predestination.
This video illustrates how biblical archaeology works by examining a clay seal dated to the 8th century BC and attributed to the prophet Isaiah. It was produced by the Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology (http://www.armstronginstitute.org) and narrated by Stephen Flurry.
In the 8th century B.C., the Assyrian empire led by Sennacherib attacked Judah, razed many cities and proceeded toward Jerusalem.
The righteous king Hezekiah, aided by his advisor the prophet Isaiah, prepared for a siege.
King Hezekiah knew the main source of water for the city was the Gihon Spring, which was outside the city.
Hezekiah had to find a way to keep the water out of the control of the Assyrians, and to make it available to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so they could survive.
2 Kings 20:20 says that Hezekiah figured it out. “The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah, all his power, how he made a pool and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?”
This somewhat obscure passage, alluding to another source that is now lost, is illuminated by the discovery of the Siloam Tunnel—also known as Hezekiah’s Tunnel—in Jerusalem.
Dated to the 8th century B.C., the tunnel is a marvel of ancient engineering. It is one-third of a mile long and...
Joshua 2 describes how the spies of Aaron were helped in Jericho by Rahab the prostitute.
The Bible says she took them to the roof and hid them.
“Then,” we read in Joshua 2:15, “she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she lived in the wall.”
Huh? How does a person live “in” a wall?
Skeptics in academic departments Europe and America insisted the biblical text must be garbled or mistaken.
Their point was that people live in houses with walls, but not somehow “in” the walls themselves.
Archaeologists have subsequently discovered a type of wall in Jericho and elsewhere in Israel called casemate walls. (See image below.)
Casemate walls are two parallel walls, built some distance apart, allowing for grain and weapons to be stored between the two walls.
Casemate walls could accommodate defenders of the city, their weapons and supplies to help ward off attacks on a city.
In peacetime, there were even people who had modest ...
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