financial accountability

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How should you respond to someone asking for money?

Previously, I have written about saying “No”, to certain situations here and here . I personally believe that offering people money when they can’t make ends meet doesn’t always help them. Short term we may eliminate the immediate need, but we don’t address the real problem by simply giving them money. Recently, I came across [...]

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You can do what the government won’t!

I am not an economist, and I don’t play one on TV, but I am pretty sure that the current economic plan being laid out in congress isn’t working. The primary reason we as a country are in the mess we are in is because we have become a country that has little to no [...]

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Video explanation of $100 million

The news of the President’s budget stirred up quite a bit of discussion when it was unveiled several weeks ago. President Obama is proposing the largest budget ever and about 33% of it is unfunded. In other words, we are going into the Fiscal Year (FY) knowing we don’t have enough money to cover the [...]

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Five for Friday! – May 1, 2009

Each Friday I try to provide a list of five posts or articles I have read during the week that I feel you would enjoy also. This week, the theme of a lot of what I have read seemed to be more upbeat than expected. Not with regard to the economy, but with regard to [...]

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Do you have unnecessary monthly expenses?

The majority of households today use some form of automatic bill payment. Whether you have an automatic draft taken directly from your checking account or use your credit card to automatically catch a few bills, the convenience of not having to write a check for every single bill is great. However, with every good thing [...]

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Learning to Live on Less Than You Make

The second Biblical Financial principle was to start saving money. Today we introduce the third principle which is the key to saving money. This principle is very simple, but not always easy. In order to start saving money you have to stop spending everything your make. Understand God’s Ownership (Psalms 24:1) Learn to Save Money [...]

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