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One of the unintended consequences of this housing market is the punishment conservative savers are taking. Last month we had the rather astonishing release of data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics telling us for the month that inflation was at 0 percent. As disconnected as this is from reality there is a reason the Federal Reserve is chopping rates even further and it is the opposite of what they are telling you. Behind closed doors they are hoping that you go out and spend and go into further debt. In fact they are setting up a system where savers are actually punished for not spending. This game and charade of course can only go on for so long. First let us take a look at the current inflation rate and adjust it to an annual basis: So currently the annual inflation rate is at 4.8 percent. You will also notice that we have lost jobs in the previous three months to the tune of 76,000. 76,000 and 80,000. Keep in mind that during the previous three recessions job losses during peak times reached over 300,000 a month even during the minor recession earlier in the decade. This can be looked at a couple of ways. Much of the data from the BLS lags the actual market. That is why people were predicting a recession in the middle of 2007 even while jobs were still being added. Keep in mind the way these things are calculated they leave out much of what the majority of Americans are facing on a daily basis. For one the CPI does not calculate mortgage payments and taxes but owners equivalent of rent which understates the current burden of housing prices on many homeowners. Also energy is blunted in the data so the rise in fuel cost isn’t reflected either. Then you also get complicated uses of hedonics for healthcare food and education which again understate the true nature of consumer inflation. So with that said for someone to simply preserve their wealth in the current market they will need to achieve a return of 4.8 percent after taxes. Keep in mind that interest earned in CDs savings or money market accounts is taxed so a par rate of return is still not keeping up. But let us take a look of a few major institutions to show you how any saver in the current market is being punished: In order to achieve a yield of over 3% you will need to deposit at least $50,000 or more. This isn’t even calculating the after tax amount you’ll be getting. We are simply looking at the current rates going for safe investments. When I say safe investments. I mean accounts that are protected by the FDIC which insurers individual accounts up to $100,000. The next place is your typical brick and mortar place that is also offering an online product like Emigrant Direct and ING. Washington Mutual is offering an online savings rate of 3.25% so long as you have a checking account with them: During the past two years the US Dollar Index has decline by 21.7 percent. Given that many of the items Americans consume are imported that means your purchasing power has declined by an incredible pace. If you have any doubts about this just take a trip to Europe or anywhere in the world for that matter. There may not be a direct correlation from the Federal Funds Rates and the actual payments you make on mortgages simply because market risk is so high at the moment. But the funds rate does have a direct impact on the above savings rate on conservative accounts. What the Fed is telling you is that if you plan on saving your money in guaranteed accounts you will in fact be losing money. Then you may be saying what about playing the stock market. Let us look at the performance of the three major indexes: The irony is that most Americans do not even have a tiny amount of money in commodities or foreign currencies to hedge their bets. Given that we are in a recession short of the technical definition if the Fed cuts rates again expect the yield on the already inflation lagging savings accounts to go down even further and expect foreign currencies to go up and also commodities. In this market it is important simply to preserve wealth as many that are now seeing their equity evaporate in their homes are realizing. Even the stimulus checks that are coming out next month are not touted as savings checks but a way for you to spend even further. If anything take those rebate checks and put them in a savings account or foreign currency. The Fed wants you to spend and be in debt since that is the last straw of our economy. Yet this is not good for you on a personal level. No wonder why Americans now have a negative savings rate. Conventional buy and hold investing styles are going to be proven extremely wrong in 2008 and if you want any more proof. Be wise and don’t follow the advice of the Fed. @Name: I agree that the government does understate inflation. Even with their low figure of 4.8% you are still treading water with typical savings accounts. Of course using owner’s equivalent of rent and balancing out for energy and food is simply absurd. But many cost of living adjustment are tied to the CPI so there is an incentive to report artificially low rates. Anyone that shops uses gas has gone to a doctor and looks at education costs realizes inflation is much higher than 4.8%. Actually there are two rates above. One is for a CD offered through ING and the other is the Orange Savings Account. The point is rates are hovering around 2.5 to 3.5% and these are the higher paying institutions. Just take a look at the Bank of America numbers. .35 percent? Hey. Name. Idiot here. I have money. Have education already. Need to put money somewhere. Could buy house. Down 20% in my area. Could buy stocks. Down up down. Having heart attack. Could buy business. Half broke in first 5 years. Then… see stocks. Could buy Gold. Pays nothing. Goes UP UP happy. Then DOWN DOWN not happy. Mattress lumpy. Bank takes care of money give back when I want. (So far)At least I pay nothing for them to keep it for me and they send me a letter each month to tell me they still have it. Nice of them.

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One of the unintended consequences of this housing market is the punishment conservative savers are taking. Last month we had the rather astonishing release of data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics telling us for the month that inflation was at 0 percent. As disconnected as this is from reality there is a reason the Federal Reserve is chopping rates even further and it is the opposite of what they are telling you. Behind closed doors they are hoping that you go out and spend and go into further debt. In fact they are setting up a system where savers are actually punished for not spending. This game and charade of course can only go on for so long. First let us take a look at the current inflation rate and adjust it to an annual basis: So currently the annual inflation rate is at 4.8 percent. You will also notice that we have lost jobs in the previous three months to the tune of 76,000. 76,000 and 80,000. Keep in mind that during the previous three recessions job losses during peak times reached over 300,000 a month even during the minor recession earlier in the decade. This can be looked at a couple of ways. Much of the data from the BLS lags the actual market. That is why people were predicting a recession in the middle of 2007 even while jobs were still being added. Keep in mind the way these things are calculated they leave out much of what the majority of Americans are facing on a daily basis. For one the CPI does not calculate mortgage payments and taxes but owners equivalent of rent which understates the current burden of housing prices on many homeowners. Also energy is blunted in the data so the rise in fuel cost isn’t reflected either. Then you also get complicated uses of hedonics for healthcare food and education which again understate the true nature of consumer inflation. So with that said for someone to simply preserve their wealth in the current market they will need to achieve a return of 4.8 percent after taxes. Keep in mind that interest earned in CDs savings or money market accounts is taxed so a par rate of return is still not keeping up. But let us take a look of a few major institutions to show you how any saver in the current market is being punished: In order to achieve a yield of over 3% you will need to deposit at least $50,000 or more. This isn’t even calculating the after tax amount you’ll be getting. We are simply looking at the current rates going for safe investments. When I say safe investments. I mean accounts that are protected by the FDIC which insurers individual accounts up to $100,000. The next place is your typical brick and mortar place that is also offering an online product like Emigrant Direct and ING. Washington Mutual is offering an online savings rate of 3.25% so long as you have a checking account with them: During the past two years the US Dollar Index has decline by 21.7 percent. Given that many of the items Americans consume are imported that means your purchasing power has declined by an incredible pace. If you have any doubts about this just take a trip to Europe or anywhere in the world for that matter. There may not be a direct correlation from the Federal Funds Rates and the actual payments you make on mortgages simply because market risk is so high at the moment. But the funds rate does have a direct impact on the above savings rate on conservative accounts. What the Fed is telling you is that if you plan on saving your money in guaranteed accounts you will in fact be losing money. Then you may be saying what about playing the stock market. Let us look at the performance of the three major indexes: The irony is that most Americans do not even have a tiny amount of money in commodities or foreign currencies to hedge their bets. Given that we are in a recession short of the technical definition if the Fed cuts rates again expect the yield on the already inflation lagging savings accounts to go down even further and expect foreign currencies to go up and also commodities. In this market it is important simply to preserve wealth as many that are now seeing their equity evaporate in their homes are realizing. Even the stimulus checks that are coming out next month are not touted as savings checks but a way for you to spend even further. If anything take those rebate checks and put them in a savings account or foreign currency. The Fed wants you to spend and be in debt since that is the last straw of our economy. Yet this is not good for you on a personal level. No wonder why Americans now have a negative savings rate. Conventional buy and hold investing styles are going to be proven extremely wrong in 2008 and if you want any more proof. Be wise and don’t follow the advice of the Fed. @Name: I agree that the government does understate inflation. Even with their low figure of 4.8% you are still treading water with typical savings accounts. Of course using owner’s equivalent of rent and balancing out for energy and food is simply absurd. But many cost of living adjustment are tied to the CPI so there is an incentive to report artificially low rates. Anyone that shops uses gas has gone to a doctor and looks at education costs realizes inflation is much higher than 4.8%. Actually there are two rates above. One is for a CD offered through ING and the other is the Orange Savings Account. The point is rates are hovering around 2.5 to 3.5% and these are the higher paying institutions. Just take a look at the Bank of America numbers. .35 percent? Hey. Name. Idiot here. I have money. Have education already. Need to put money somewhere. Could buy house. Down 20% in my area. Could buy stocks. Down up down. Having heart attack. Could buy business. Half broke in first 5 years. Then… see stocks. Could buy Gold. Pays nothing. Goes UP UP happy. Then DOWN DOWN not happy. Mattress lumpy. Bank takes care of money give back when I want. (So far)At least I pay nothing for them to keep it for me and they send me a letter each month to tell me they still have it. Nice of them.

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One of the unintended consequences of this housing market is the punishment conservative savers are taking. Last month we had the rather astonishing release of data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics telling us for the month that inflation was at 0 percent. As disconnected as this is from reality there is a reason the Federal Reserve is chopping rates even further and it is the opposite of what they are telling you. Behind closed doors they are hoping that you go out and spend and go into further debt. In fact they are setting up a system where savers are actually punished for not spending. This game and charade of course can only go on for so long. First let us take a look at the current inflation rate and adjust it to an annual basis: So currently the annual inflation rate is at 4.8 percent. You will also notice that we have lost jobs in the previous three months to the tune of 76,000. 76,000 and 80,000. Keep in mind that during the previous three recessions job losses during peak times reached over 300,000 a month even during the minor recession earlier in the decade. This can be looked at a couple of ways. Much of the data from the BLS lags the actual market. That is why people were predicting a recession in the middle of 2007 even while jobs were still being added. Keep in mind the way these things are calculated they leave out much of what the majority of Americans are facing on a daily basis. For one the CPI does not calculate mortgage payments and taxes but owners equivalent of rent which understates the current burden of housing prices on many homeowners. Also energy is blunted in the data so the rise in fuel cost isn’t reflected either. Then you also get complicated uses of hedonics for healthcare food and education which again understate the true nature of consumer inflation. So with that said for someone to simply preserve their wealth in the current market they will need to achieve a return of 4.8 percent after taxes. Keep in mind that interest earned in CDs savings or money market accounts is taxed so a par rate of return is still not keeping up. But let us take a look of a few major institutions to show you how any saver in the current market is being punished: In order to achieve a yield of over 3% you will need to deposit at least $50,000 or more. This isn’t even calculating the after tax amount you’ll be getting. We are simply looking at the current rates going for safe investments. When I say safe investments. I mean accounts that are protected by the FDIC which insurers individual accounts up to $100,000. The next place is your typical brick and mortar place that is also offering an online product like Emigrant Direct and ING. Washington Mutual is offering an online savings rate of 3.25% so long as you have a checking account with them: During the past two years the US Dollar Index has decline by 21.7 percent. Given that many of the items Americans consume are imported that means your purchasing power has declined by an incredible pace. If you have any doubts about this just take a trip to Europe or anywhere in the world for that matter. There may not be a direct correlation from the Federal Funds Rates and the actual payments you make on mortgages simply because market risk is so high at the moment. But the funds rate does have a direct impact on the above savings rate on conservative accounts. What the Fed is telling you is that if you plan on saving your money in guaranteed accounts you will in fact be losing money. Then you may be saying what about playing the stock market. Let us look at the performance of the three major indexes: The irony is that most Americans do not even have a tiny amount of money in commodities or foreign currencies to hedge their bets. Given that we are in a recession short of the technical definition if the Fed cuts rates again expect the yield on the already inflation lagging savings accounts to go down even further and expect foreign currencies to go up and also commodities. In this market it is important simply to preserve wealth as many that are now seeing their equity evaporate in their homes are realizing. Even the stimulus checks that are coming out next month are not touted as savings checks but a way for you to spend even further. If anything take those rebate checks and put them in a savings account or foreign currency. The Fed wants you to spend and be in debt since that is the last straw of our economy. Yet this is not good for you on a personal level. No wonder why Americans now have a negative savings rate. Conventional buy and hold investing styles are going to be proven extremely wrong in 2008 and if you want any more proof. Be wise and don’t follow the advice of the Fed. @Name: I agree that the government does understate inflation. Even with their low figure of 4.8% you are still treading water with typical savings accounts. Of course using owner’s equivalent of rent and balancing out for energy and food is simply absurd. But many cost of living adjustment are tied to the CPI so there is an incentive to report artificially low rates. Anyone that shops uses gas has gone to a doctor and looks at education costs realizes inflation is much higher than 4.8%. Actually there are two rates above. One is for a CD offered through ING and the other is the Orange Savings Account. The point is rates are hovering around 2.5 to 3.5% and these are the higher paying institutions. Just take a look at the Bank of America numbers. .35 percent? Hey. Name. Idiot here. I have money. Have education already. Need to put money somewhere. Could buy house. Down 20% in my area. Could buy stocks. Down up down. Having heart attack. Could buy business. Half broke in first 5 years. Then… see stocks. Could buy Gold. Pays nothing. Goes UP UP happy. Then DOWN DOWN not happy. Mattress lumpy. Bank takes care of money give back when I want. (So far)At least I pay nothing for them to keep it for me and they send me a letter each month to tell me they still have it. Nice of them.

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One of the unintended consequences of this housing market is the punishment conservative savers are taking. Last month we had the rather astonishing release of data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics telling us for the month that inflation was at 0 percent. As disconnected as this is from reality there is a reason the Federal Reserve is chopping rates even further and it is the opposite of what they are telling you. Behind closed doors they are hoping that you go out and spend and go into further debt. In fact they are setting up a system where savers are actually punished for not spending. This game and charade of course can only go on for so long. First let us take a look at the current inflation rate and adjust it to an annual basis: So currently the annual inflation rate is at 4.8 percent. You will also notice that we have lost jobs in the previous three months to the tune of 76,000. 76,000 and 80,000. Keep in mind that during the previous three recessions job losses during peak times reached over 300,000 a month even during the minor recession earlier in the decade. This can be looked at a couple of ways. Much of the data from the BLS lags the actual market. That is why people were predicting a recession in the middle of 2007 even while jobs were still being added. Keep in mind the way these things are calculated they leave out much of what the majority of Americans are facing on a daily basis. For one the CPI does not calculate mortgage payments and taxes but owners equivalent of rent which understates the current burden of housing prices on many homeowners. Also energy is blunted in the data so the rise in fuel cost isn’t reflected either. Then you also get complicated uses of hedonics for healthcare food and education which again understate the true nature of consumer inflation. So with that said for someone to simply preserve their wealth in the current market they will need to achieve a return of 4.8 percent after taxes. Keep in mind that interest earned in CDs savings or money market accounts is taxed so a par rate of return is still not keeping up. But let us take a look of a few major institutions to show you how any saver in the current market is being punished: In order to achieve a yield of over 3% you will need to deposit at least $50,000 or more. This isn’t even calculating the after tax amount you’ll be getting. We are simply looking at the current rates going for safe investments. When I say safe investments. I mean accounts that are protected by the FDIC which insurers individual accounts up to $100,000. The next place is your typical brick and mortar place that is also offering an online product like Emigrant Direct and ING. Washington Mutual is offering an online savings rate of 3.25% so long as you have a checking account with them: During the past two years the US Dollar Index has decline by 21.7 percent. Given that many of the items Americans consume are imported that means your purchasing power has declined by an incredible pace. If you have any doubts about this just take a trip to Europe or anywhere in the world for that matter. There may not be a direct correlation from the Federal Funds Rates and the actual payments you make on mortgages simply because market risk is so high at the moment. But the funds rate does have a direct impact on the above savings rate on conservative accounts. What the Fed is telling you is that if you plan on saving your money in guaranteed accounts you will in fact be losing money. Then you may be saying what about playing the stock market. Let us look at the performance of the three major indexes: The irony is that most Americans do not even have a tiny amount of money in commodities or foreign currencies to hedge their bets. Given that we are in a recession short of the technical definition if the Fed cuts rates again expect the yield on the already inflation lagging savings accounts to go down even further and expect foreign currencies to go up and also commodities. In this market it is important simply to preserve wealth as many that are now seeing their equity evaporate in their homes are realizing. Even the stimulus checks that are coming out next month are not touted as savings checks but a way for you to spend even further. If anything take those rebate checks and put them in a savings account or foreign currency. The Fed wants you to spend and be in debt since that is the last straw of our economy. Yet this is not good for you on a personal level. No wonder why Americans now have a negative savings rate. Conventional buy and hold investing styles are going to be proven extremely wrong in 2008 and if you want any more proof. Be wise and don’t follow the advice of the Fed. @Name: I agree that the government does understate inflation. Even with their low figure of 4.8% you are still treading water with typical savings accounts. Of course using owner’s equivalent of rent and balancing out for energy and food is simply absurd. But many cost of living adjustment are tied to the CPI so there is an incentive to report artificially low rates. Anyone that shops uses gas has gone to a doctor and looks at education costs realizes inflation is much higher than 4.8%. Actually there are two rates above. One is for a CD offered through ING and the other is the Orange Savings Account. The point is rates are hovering around 2.5 to 3.5% and these are the higher paying institutions. Just take a look at the Bank of America numbers. .35 percent? Hey. Name. Idiot here. I have money. Have education already. Need to put money somewhere. Could buy house. Down 20% in my area. Could buy stocks. Down up down. Having heart attack. Could buy business. Half broke in first 5 years. Then… see stocks. Could buy Gold. Pays nothing. Goes UP UP happy. Then DOWN DOWN not happy. Mattress lumpy. Bank takes care of money give back when I want. (So far)At least I pay nothing for them to keep it for me and they send me a letter each month to tell me they still have it. Nice of them.

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Prime attend of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko sees as the weightiest outcome of activity of incumbent Government during 100 days the positive fit of the state budget. She announced during the press conference dedicated to 100 days of bring home the bacon of the democratic Government. “We have a unique phenomenon never experienced before which is positive fit of the express budget,” Yulia Tymoshenko noted. According to her positive fit implies that Ukraine will not resort to foreign borrowings and not have debts of state budget. “calculate with positive balance demonstrates just the offspring of our activity over 100 days which to my mind is rather significant and integral,” the continue of Ukrainian Government explained.

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I've spent a lot of time in the middle of the "Starve the Beast" and "give Side Tax Cut" debates.  I formulated the Roth-Kemp tax cut in early 1977 and after working to scale it approve helped go it in 1981 as the Republican tax economist on the Senate Budget Committee.  I formulated the Earned Income Tax ascribe in 1975 and have worked for Democrats too.  I hold myself out as a non-partisan Washington economist.  My main goal all along has been to improve tax and budget policy.  I won't claim much success but I would furnish some observations. On "Starve the Beast," I vividly recall sitting in the OMB conference dwell in early 1981 looking at a summary of the budget President Reagan was about to expose.  His tax cuts were no surprise but the jump in defense spending was so large we thought it was a typo.  Spending cuts were proposed but they came nowhere near balancing the tax cut.  That's where Rosy Scenario came in.  Its projection of sharp personal income and business profit increases yielded lots of revenue and a balanced budget a few years out.  The tax cuts became law; so did most of the defense change magnitude; but Rosy Scenario didn't pan out.  With the exception of the repeal of general revenue sharing with the states few spending cuts were enacted. Deficits went up sharply.  Throughout his administration. President Reagan predicted declining deficits but they kept rising. President Reagan and Congress reacted to higher deficits in several ways.  First we raised taxes in 1982 by about one-third of the 1981 tax cuts mostly by going after business loopholes.  Then in 1983 we "saved" Social Security from going bust with a big payroll tax change magnitude.  Benefits were curtailed far in the future mostly by extending the retirement age.  So today nearly half of all Americans pay more in Social Security and Medicare taxes than they do in federal income taxes.  Third we enacted Gramm-Rudman-Hollings in 1985 and Gramm-Rudman-Hollings II in 1987 to cap spending growth.  That was desire padlocking the refrigerator to compel a fast but keeping the combination nearby.  Spending growth finally leveled off as Mr. Reagan neared the end of this second call but that happened as much from public outcry over the deficits as it did from any budget enforcement policies. Presidents furnish 41 and Clinton be much ascribe for making the tough and politically perilous decisions to balance the budget.  Old fashioned spending cuts and tax increases enacted in 1990 and in 1993 brought the deficit under control and produced surpluses in FY98. FY99. FY00 and FY01.  The of the President's Budget shows the numbers. On "Supply Side Tax Cuts," I accept completely that marginal tax evaluate cuts and cuts in the taxation of dividends and capital gains stimulate economic growth that generates offsetting revenue.  The size of that offset was estimated by the in late 2005 to be from +1% to +22% in the first five years and from -5% to +32% over the next five years.  That sounds about right to me.  A lot depends upon the ultimate force of those tax cuts.  The same is true of spending.  A broad marginal rate cut or a cut in the manifold taxation of dividends has big revenue "feedback," but a special net operating loss carryback for business as the Senate is about to go is just "instant cash," which has little if any "feedback."  Also tax cuts on top of tax cuts have diminishing "feedback" just as tax increases on top of tax change magnitude yield diminishing incremental revenue. Finally. I haven't found any silver bullets when it comes to balancing the budget.  It takes a lot of hard work and difficult political calculus to get the budget under control.  Then it takes a few years for the surpluses to show up so you don't get much political ascribe or worse like President Bush 41 you get bounced out of office.  Short-run political thinking usually dominates in Washington and that's why surpluses are so rare.  Re: “That's where Rosy Scenario came in. Its projection of sharp personal income and business profit increases yielded lots of revenue and a balanced budget a few years out.� Did the Reagan Administration anticipate that revenues would be HIGHER due to the tax cuts ceteris paribus or just that there would be some (less than 100%) revenue feedback? Bruce Bartlett has claimed the latter. Re: “Presidents Bush 41 and Clinton be much credit for making the tough and politically perilous decisions to balance the budget. Old fashioned spending cuts and tax increases enacted in 1990 and in 1993 brought the deficit under control and produced surpluses in FY98. FY99. FY00 and FY01.� Were there really spending cuts during that period or was that improvement in budget balance due to just a combination of tax increases and strong GDP growth? Spending in real terms throughout the 1990s albeit at a slower evaluate than before and since. Are you just saying spending declined as a % of GDP? Or perhaps just discretionary spending or per capita spending (which I haven't checked)? Re: “Finally. I haven't found any silver bullets when it comes to balancing the budget. It takes a lot of hard work and difficult political calculus to get the budget under control. Then it takes a few years for the surpluses to show up so you don't get much political ascribe or worse like President Bush 41 you get bounced out of office. Short-run political thinking usually dominates in Washington and that's why surpluses are so rare.� As I pointed out. I think we need to give political adjoin for fiscal responsibility via a bi-partisan or non-partisan equip to create alternative fiscally-responsible plans with different sets of trade-offs coupled with either political compel or assign that Congress choose from among the alternatives. Do you agree or do you see other ways in which the political calculus can change sufficiently for politicians to see fiscal responsibility as less politically costly than continued irresponsibility? (I cynically but I think realistically assume that the politicians won’t act fiscally responsibly if it will be their re-election or other political future making changing their calculus key). In the 1990s Non-Defense discretionary spending went up substantially in real terms. Defense spending declined in real terms although I assume that had more to do with the end of the Cold War than with any zeal for spending cuts http://www heritage org/research/features/BudgetChartBook/fed-rev-spend-2008-boc-S6-Non-Defense-Discretionary html This shows that spending per household was flat during the 1990 in real terms in differentiate to the growth before and since. But average household coat decreased 1.5% from 1990 to 2000 (from 2.63 to 2.59) so spending per capita increased albeit only slightly for a period of a decade. So I'm wondering if all you meant was that total spending in the 1990s declined as a percent of GDP which seems attributable to strong GDP growth (the denominator) rather than spending cuts unless I'm missing something.

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Here is a rough draft of an bind I'm working on for I had also updated my own story to help hurting youth workers. (Might post that too - soon) Top 10 Things you can furnish for Pastor Appreciation MonthBy Gerrard R. FessOctober is Pastor or Clergy Appreciation Month. The following are some suggestions to back up show your leadership that you care. As a fellow pastor some of these suggestions were given to me and helped back up and show that I was valued as a member of the church body.1. Gift cards – cards from local grocery store home value places blockbuster. I-tunes etc. Be creative. I just got one this week from one of our families just to say convey you for a local Ice beat place – and intend on taking my family.2. Groceries. Get what their grocery enumerate is or what they usually buy. Some churches in the South I’m told do what is called a “Pounding” and basically what a pounding is a contend to fill the cupboards and fridge to the brim with stocks of food. Imagine saving $$$ on groceries. Very practical idea.3. Free babysitting and complimentary funds for a go out night. 4. Money – always works. Sometimes you don’t know what the family’s bills struggles or what they need – it might be they need more clothes for the kids but the budget is tight so some extra funds come in handy.5. A hand written card. Nothing says Thank You like getting the personal touch of someone saying thanks. Even an e-card would do too.6. Subscription services to magazines (Leadership. Rev. Journal of Student Ministries. assort) online services and websites podcasts. There are some online services like preachingtoday com that have a subscription and might back up with their ministry. Maybe get a wish enumerate here of magazines or online services they’d dream of subscribing to.7. Gadgets. back up the leadership maybe modify their software laptops. PDAs cell phones. Maybe even have several families go in to help purchase some of this higher dollar items. This not only shows love but an investment in their ministry. It is only a matter of time that some leaders undergo to quit using Windows 2000 and eventually go MAC or Vista. Some of my students recently got me an I-pod. (I would not owned one otherwise). 8. Books – get a desire list of books you church leader has (note the favorite authors) or would like to buy. A good leader is a lifelong learner and always could use more reading resources and books. ask their spouse for suggestions. Personally I’m reading more in leadership development than in youth ministry.9. Extra Vacation days. back up create more time off or see that they can get renewed by having their own personal retreat. Perhaps there is someone in your congregation who has a vacation home to furnish or see what your local camp ministry offers or other resources. One of the beat times I had was when a family just invited us to go with them to the beach for the day.10. Help send them to that seminar or convention that they always wanted to go to. Conventions can be expensive. Making sure they get there have all the funds and don’t have to worry about how this affects their own personal budget or the church’s – set them at ease. There are many pastor youth leader marriage conventions out there. Honorable have in mind:-Do any of the above and more on any other day other than Pastor Appreciation Month will go a long ways too.-Specifically pray for your church leaders. Ask them for prayer requests. Send them a note telling them that you are praying for them.-Have a special ceremony to recognize them in front of the perform body. I still have my framed award that says “You are Appreciated” on the wall in my office from a few years ago.-Celebrate those holidays birthdays anniversaries. Recognize the anniversary of the number of years that they been at the church. 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