Back in the early 80's they used to sell publications on the back of the AWAKE, one I can remember is they use to sell a box set of cassettes of their kingdom songs
the price stated was @ $48.00 , well I happened to be in the recording industry and I knew of the price to duplicate a dozen cassettes was no were near $48.00, $5.00 would easily cover the
cost to produce a box set like that and make a little profit on top. All keeping in mind they had the slaves do most or all of the work. So I sat there thinking to myself this is a 800 % mark up
so what is a supposedly non-profiting religion doing this for ? Keep in mind the total circulation of the AWAKE magazine throughout North America and this will give you an idea of many of
those cassette sets were sold and how much money they pulled in from those sales, an astonishing amount. There literally have had milions upon millions of dollars brought in to the WTS.
since its inception. Someone who was working at Bethel a few years ago snuck out an financial statement for the year 1997 and then posted it on a web site, it showed total assets of @ 940
million. Being a businessman myself I thought at first this must be a fake, but then looking a little closer it became apparent it wasn't, everything on it looked professional. and you can be
assured that a financial statement such as that would only be viewed by the people working in the finance department and probably the GB members only, the common Bethelite slaves
of course would not. I wish I had it now so I could post it up for anyone to see, maybe I will come across it again. If you think about the almost 80 yrs.this organization has been in
operation and all those millions of publications sold globablly, all the donations sent in over those years, the investments made, properties bought and sold over the decades all tax free of
course. Just in proof of how much money they have made from real-estate for example, they recently sold one of their Brooklyn buildings for over 200 million, this to add to an already
ballooning group of assets. To make the picture perfectly clear as of to date they are most definitely in the billionaires club as far as global corporations go. One other thing that I should
mention, is now they are going after the faithfull's personal wills and estates, they obviously have noted that a lot of the dedicated slaves are getting elderly, so now they have a pamphlet out
to show how someone could pass on their will to the organization legally. I saw this at my jw father's house who is getting up in age and I was quite shocked in reading it. They certainly didn't
have anything like that when I was a jw some twenty years ago, I'm quite sure.
I was thinking if C.T. Russell was able to return today and see how his little company " Tower Publishing Inc ". had grow from its little roots to this huge internationally expanding
corporation with a billion dollars in assets, boy wouldn't he be shocked and surprised, I know I would ! In any case one could really look at the WTS. in its whole as a perfect example of
free enterprise capitalism as it grew through the years and still is growing today albeit at a slower pace. Headquarter financial statements have always been kept closed to the body of
jws and will remain closed for obvious reasons, discloser may cause damage.
So in answer to your question " show me the money "...........Shush ! .......... you can't see it !
