"Insider information"
Your donkey.
For those of us who know, Warwick land was bought cheap enough and Warwick construction is cheap.Labor and design is the most expensive part of a building project relative to the cost of the land, and it is free. There is a push to complete Warwick; WT wants to get out of Kings county ASAP before all hell breaks loose, they want to direct the work from Warwick. The original plan was to complete the project by 2017, contingencies and obstacles are slowing things down. WT also has agreements with the buyers of their Sands property. True, they also believed this to be the case in the past, but WT is expecting something big to hit soon by 2017 and they want to be in Warwick when they believe it will.
How do JW view these cutback changes the WT could do? Not bad. JW have come to their own personal conclusions that something big is going to hit so they are not concerned with cutbacks or stopped building projects, they see this in relation to world catastrophe and not WT failure. How will individual Bethelites take it if they are sent home? Not good. I suppose a lot will be angry or disappointed. (why me? attitude)
But do you really think that JWs would be so disappointed about WT expansions, projects, building, KHs, etc, and another 100 years of preaching and invisible rulership? Everyone wants system destruction not construction, and if something bigger than 1914 realized, hopes for the imminent end would be livened ; It is exciting not disappointing.
Financial problems continued to escalate every year after donation arrangement for literature, assembly food and parking, etc were mandated. But materials were cheap enough, the economy was ok, and besides that, the end would come by the generation limit around the corner-back then. It was lifesaving to get the literature out and for the work to continue even as a personal expense But we live in a world today where people do not go to the library much and buying of internet has bankrupted or is crippling store front businesses. And information about God and the future and the Bible does not depend on a knock on the door or JW fascinating literature; That does not contribute to ww donations.
Donations is what helps finance the WT. The economy is in crisis. And IT IS NOT GROWING. The WT needs to extremely curtail all unnecessary spending and save as much voluntary donations, (calling to everyone that wants to voluntarily support the WT and giving them a last opportunity to do so now) to prepare for the hard times ahead so that they have the assets to spend when needed.
Will the lawsuits cripple the WTS financially? Depends on how many and how much. People are crippled and killed each year including children because of negligence from the government and private entities;They don't pay much and they have been known to pass laws to limit the amount of money that gov will pay out. Private entities will declare bankruptcy and insurances will not pay much either. WT has enemies that want to try to put the WT out of business and that is what is behind the WT billion dollar lawsuits; And forcing the WT to pay many millions for such while the gov and private entities almost never have to pay so much. So it is really about using the legal system as a means to get at the WT.
WT seems vulnerable because nothing ain't happened after 100 year " lifesaving" message, and there are a lot of angry people out there that want to get at the WT. I think that these lawsuits and RC, etc is going to backfire. WT wallpaper proclaims embarrassment of gov actions against WT in the past. Wt did not sue.
Something has been unfolding for a while now and JW are eagerly waiting for that fat lady to sing now that Yogi Bera is dead, but they do not blame the WT.
