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With many of today's ministers earning in excess of $100,000, heaven doesn't preach [RELIGION, March 24]. Our churches now mirror society's American way with "Me first" and "What can I hoard for myself?" We go to church for confirmation of our life-style, not worship. Maybe with prodding like yours we will change. Maybe we can again find the pathway to heaven. Maybe we can join Christ on his way, with "God first" and sacrifice for others. JOHN MEACHAM, ELDER First Presbyterian Church Garner, North Carolina...
FROM THE ANNALS OF WRETCHED EXCESS...
Like it or not, the IRS is the indispensable agency. With its 106,000 employees, $7 billion annual budget and 10 regional service centers, each the size of a small city, the IRS is the second largest federal agency, after the Pentagon. It handles in excess of 200 million returns a year and sorts 1.2 billion pieces of information from 1,200 financial institutions. It reviews 60,000 employee-compensation plans and checks 90,000 tax-exempt organizations...
When the Coalition for Excess Weight Risk Education announced recently that Kansas City, Missouri, my hometown, was the fourth most obese city in the U.S., I received some congratulatory telephone calls that I suspect were not entirely sincere...
Enter Wall Street which has much to gain if Americans are scared into privatizing Social Security. Even partial privatization could put in excess of $150 billion into the hands of Wall Street fund managers. Management fees on $150 billion is not small change. Small wonder that Wall Street is behind a significant portion of the millions of dollars that have already been spent to push privatization...