The comment was made----
But liquid assets are slim and cash flow low. This cramps the style of the G.B. who used to be able to spend frivolously. .--All these things and more, show a serious lack of funds at Bethel. But the G.B. can't admit they are short, for obvious reasons. The end is not here. So we should not have money problems or shortages. Surely the "spirit-directed" Governing Body would not squandor the money, would they?
Well I have to disagree somewhat in fact the cash flow has increased after the complete donation arrangement- if you search the net you will find the wt took in 1.2 BILLION the year before the donation arrangement went into affect and it dropped almost 500 million to around 700 mill
Now Newsday shows they are listed in NYC top corps at over 900 MILL-
FOR AN organization that has no payroll, that aint bad- true they have cost, but to have millions of sales folks they don't have to cut a ck to each month is unreal- consider how much Bill Gates would be worth if he got rid of his PAYROLL ALONE-
The comment was made that the GB spend big bucks- perhaps in the days of Rutherford, but when I was at bethel the GB were not spending big bucks they mainly got hooked up thru "Perks" more so than cutting themselves a ck from the WT bank account and buying themselves a Lear Jet
The below is from NEWSDAY SEPT 17, 2001
FROM what I understand the wt is CASH Rich in fact that was one of the driving reasons why they SPLIT the org up into 5 parts
From everyone I have talked to who are still and bethel and from what we all can clearly see
THE LAWYERS AND THE ACCOUNTANTS are running the org- Writing and Service dept has to kiss up to these guys and it has pissed off a lot of guys- for years the writing and service guys came into bethel with 30yrs of fulltime service and now COLLEGE GUYS with 2 yrs as a jw come in and tell them what to do- case in point many articles in the wt must be cleared THRU LEGAL-
CAN'T be TALKING NASTY ABOUT THE GOV TO MUCH NOW cause we got a case pending- as many observers have seen
THE HARD HTTING MESSAGE that many of us Old timers were told we would see in the last days as turned TO MUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAVE YOU seen the pussy foot articles they have done on the UN lately
Man when I was growing up we used to have on the cover of the wt Satan- The beast, and all the world gov on a string being held in the mouth of the beast with the "HO" babylon on it's back
Not today my man- got to be MORE PC TODAY-
When JR brown was asked can jw vote- did he say:
" Hell NO we would rather die standing on our Feet and Living on our Knees
smile
nope he said - "It Be A conscience matter"
yea right some folks on this board got their Asses beat for not voting in 1945 during the height of WWII patriotic fever and to be told it is a conscience matter is a joke
Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York
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It takes a lot of printing to supply more than 6 million Jehovah's Witnesses with the materials for their ministry. One publication, Watchtower, now has an average print run of 23 million copies twice per month, an increase of 7.5 percent over last year.
"Our report for the year is different from a Wall Street company," said vice president George Couch. Indeed, the company's employees are volunteers who live and work in the Brooklyn complex.
