Hello Everyone, This is for real this is not a joke. I received a decision letter from The Social Security Administration tonight that as of July 23, 2009 coincidently that was my birthday that I was no longer entitled to social security disability benefits. Those of you that personally know me know what I have been going through since they stopped my benefits earlier and how my health got worse. You that know me, know how much my work means to me and how hard I work to provide the service that I perform for you guys even though I am Impaired with my disability, I am not able to obtain a normal job due to my disabilities.
Again those of you that personally know me,know that I am not able to obtain a regular salaried or hourly job due to my medical disablities and therefore I am asking for immediate and Extremely Urgent help tonight. You all know me to be an honest person. Therefore I am in great need for immediate donations. Here is my problem again let me explain this email is really from me. Tom Rodgers, As I sit here at my office in Cusseta tonight am I wondering where do I go from here. I have worked so hard to continue to provide services to all of you at the lowest possible prices.. As most of you are aware of I use my disability Income to provide this services to you which I enjoy doing very much it is my life and I Love being able to provide assistance and services to all of you. There is a great need for me in the local area and also a great need for me to be able to operate the website. Not to mention a personal need for me to be able to survive as a human being and to be able to live. T&C Services is what I live for. Well tonight I do not even know if I will receive my Monthly Social Security Deposit Monday August 3, 2009. Therefore I am asking you First to pray for me when you see this email. Second if you have any amount that you can donate please click the PayPal link I will provide in this email or go to my website http://tomrodgers723.community.officelive.com and click the donate button found on the first 6 or so pages under mission statement. I am of course going to file an appeal with Social Security immediately but here's the deal, bills are due now. Please remember that I am serious and not joking I would not send this type of email to you.
I have accomplised a great deal this past seven months by turning T&C Services into a Charitable Community Services with being approved by The State of Georgia Secretary of State as a Registered Charitable Organization, while continually to work on achieving Federal 501(C)(3) Tax Exempt Status. This is in doubt at this moment but I do have Faith and Hope and I will not give up on this as long as I have a last breath. I again would not post this as a joke I am praying that if anyone who reads this and is able to help please do so now by clicking the email link or go to http://tomrodgers723.community.officelive.com. God bless all of you and I will Greatly Appreciate any assistance that you may be able to give.
Thank you for reading this and if you can please make a donation now. Click the link below to make an immediate emergency donation now. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=7193218 Thanks, Tom Rodgers Please visit our Website http://tomrodgers723.community.officelive.com
Louisville for Obama Members -
My company is a corporate sponsor of this year's Light The Night Walk to battle cancer and support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). This year's walk is taking place on October 3, 2009 and the Walk in Louisville is going to be held at Waterfront Park.
I'm asking all of you in Louisville for Obama to join our walk team and raise money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society or if you are unable to walk in this year's fundraiser tell others about the event or if possible make a donation to our team.
To join our team go to My Team's Light The Night Walk Home Page and then go to the "Walk With Us" link at the top of the page. To make a donation follow the same link and the process is self-explanatory.
I encourage you to go to the website and read about the great work that The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is doing to battle cancer and support families in their battle with the disease.
I hope to see you at the Light The Night Walk on October 3rd down at Waterfront Park. If you are unable to make the walk a donation of any amount is greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Craig
T&C Services, Tom Rodgers is now registered with the State of Georgia Secretary of State Charitable Organization. We are in compliance with the state of Georgia Charitable Solicitations Act of 2008.
You can be assured any donations will be used to support our mission to provide services to the needy citizens of The Chattahoochee Valley.
Please visit our website for more information, http://tomrodgers723.community.officelive.com
Thanks,
Tom Rodgers
IRS Announces Withholding Adjustment Option for Pension Plans and Provides Taxpayer Education
WASHINGTON — As part of a wider outreach effort to educate taxpayers about the benefits they will receive under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Internal Revenue Service today released new withholding adjustment procedures for pension plans.
In February, the IRS issued revised withholding tables incorporating the Making Work Pay Tax Credit, one of the key provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. That change resulted in more take home pay for more than 120 million American households and provided an immediate economic stimulus. The new procedure for pensions will make withholding more accurate for pension recipients.
While the newly announced procedures apply only to pension payments, the IRS is gearing up for a wider outreach campaign to educate pensioners and other taxpayers about the withholding tables and Recovery payments. The IRS will work with partner groups to provide taxpayers information to make sure they have the appropriate withholding for their situation. The IRS will also work on developing a variety of information products, including brochures, video and audio material to help educate taxpayers.
The change announced today will help some pensioners avoid a smaller refund next spring or even a balance due in limited situations. A wide variety of factors, such as outside jobs and other earned income, can affect how much, if any, withholding is needed by people receiving a pension to satisfy their annual tax liability. The optional adjustment procedure which may be used by those paying pensions is available in Notice 1036-P, Additional Withholding for Pensions for 2009. The on-line version of Publication 15-T, New Wage Withholding and Advance Earned Income Credit Payment Tables, will be updated and available next week.
Pension payors are not required to use this new procedure and may continue to use only the February 2009 withholding tables. For plans that adopt the new procedure, withholding on pension payments will be automatically adjusted with no action needed by pensioners. The IRS is also encouraging pension payors who choose to implement the new withholding adjustment procedures to contact retirees who previously submitted a Form W-4P, Withholding Certificate for Pension or Annuity Payments, requesting additional withholding after the February withholding tables were issued.
Those who should pay particular attention to their withholding include married couples with two incomes, individuals with multiple jobs, dependents, some Social Security recipients who work and workers who do not have valid Social Security Numbers. Depending on their personal situation, some people could have less withheld from their paychecks than they need or want. People who believe their current withholding is not appropriate for their personal situation can perform a quick check by using the IRS withholding calculator on IRS.gov. Any necessary adjustments can be made by filing a revised Form W-4, Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate, with their employer.
For more information visit IRS.gov. Taxpayers and payors can download forms and publications from IRS.gov or request a free copy by calling toll free 1-800-TAX-FORM (1-800-829-3676).
I hope this information is helpful.
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If you have spare time please volunteer at a local community center.
Volunteers make a big difference in their communities.
If you live in the Chattahoochee Valley Area and you are interested in volunteering your services or making a donation of cash, or items you no longer need please contact Tom Rodgers po box 968 Cusseta, GA 31805-0968 or 706-464-6546.
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Hi,
I came across this site today, and thought it was worth sharing. the site attempts to bring some unity behind the economic recovery, while also making charitable contributions. thought the idea behind it was pretty worthy. anyways, just thought it was worth sharing and maybe worth a look.
It sure would help.
Veterans advocates are venting anger and frustration toward the biggest charity within the U.S. military after revelations that it has been packing more money into reserves than it has spent on aid during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We have so many soldiers, reservists and National Guard who are in dire need, and for the Army to be holding this much money in reserve is despicable," chairman Bob Handy of Veterans United for Truth, of Santa Barbara, Calif., said Monday.
He was reacting to an Associated Press investigation that examined five years of tax returns by Army Emergency Relief and reported on interviews with dozens of soldiers, veterans and officials from other military charities.
From 2003 to 2007, the charity, also known as AER, packed $117 million into its own reserves while spending just $64 million on direct aid, records show. By contrast, smaller Navy and Air Force charities both put far more of their resources into aid than reserves. Also, more than 90 percent of AER's aid was given as no-interest loans, not outright grants.
Though tax-exempt and legally separate, AER operates largely under Army control, the AP found. Soldiers are squeezed for contributions, often rewarded for them in violation of regulations, and sometimes delayed in transfers or promotions when loans aren't repaid.
AER, which operates on 90 Army sites worldwide and grew into a $345 million colossus during the Iraq war, is meant to help active-duty soldiers and Army retirees with their cash emergencies and to provide college scholarships to their families.
In written comments Monday, AER said it has been giving generously. "AER has always met the need for financial assistance. No soldier or family member has ever been denied financial assistance for a valid need due to a lack of funds," said retired Col. Andrew H. Cohen, the charity's national treasurer at its headquarters in Alexandria, Va.
He said the charity's expenses fail to provide a complete picture of its performance. He said the total value of assistance, counting loan and grant dollars as equal, has grown every year since 2003.
At a news conference Monday outside El Paso, Texas, Col. Ed Manning, commander of Fort Bliss, said that the charity works well and he was "just kind of surprised that there'd be a question about the money." He said the charity at his post of 20,000 soldiers had distributed $2.9 million over the past year, though he acknowledged that it was mostly in loans.
He said soldiers contribute entirely of their own will, but he defended rules that make needy soldiers request aid through an Army superior. "It's good that a commander knows what's going on in his unit," Manning said.
Other charities on Monday questioned AER's generosity.
"It just makes me sick to my stomach," said Amy Fairweather, director of the Iraq Veteran Project in San Francisco, a nonprofit that helps veterans with shelter and emergency payments. "There are resources that are not being used when organizations like ours ... are pounding the pavement every day in this tough economic time to bring in dollars to help our veterans."
Paul Sullivan, executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, in Washington, D.C., said AER should rework its policies to help more veterans. Right now, it limits emergency aid to active-duty soldiers and veterans who served long enough to retire.
"If they're sitting on all this money and there is a demonstrated need out there, they can expand their mission to meet the need," said Sullivan, an Army combat veteran who used to work as a project manager for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans United for Truth are appealing the dismissal of a federal lawsuit they filed during the Bush administration over federal delays in providing disability benefits.
Source: Associated Press http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i8RwU4-Rr9BiSOiAjZeJIArc7ZjwD96HJSQ00
I can remember growing up in the 50’s, when our communities were more self-sufficient. To me, Affirmative Action divided and destroyed what semblance of togetherness we had as a people. Affirmative Action was designed to Window Dress, creating a crabs in the barrel black society.
Affirmative Action is kinda like the Pyramid schemes. Most of those educated and skilled, who understood the scam, took advantage of the opportunity. They were the ones, who were serving as role models, that began moving on up and out of the neighborhoods.
When Malcolm talked of self-sufficiency, he was accused of separatism. The reality is that within the 50 states we are many nations in one nation. During this presidential campaign it was made clear that family and social values were paramount in connecting with candidates. We African Americans are a family and it is time that we begin working toward our own families’ interests. “Charity begins at home”, is not separatism nor selfishness. The neglecting of ourselves and relying on others to provide for us, nurtures that negative perception other families have of our community.
Until we as a people take ownership of our own financial, political and social destiny we will be seen as not deserving of others’ respect. Today it is not a whole lot about fighting for our rights: it is more of how we should exercise our rights. For one, making sure that we are being treated fairly with the allocation of government contracts, loans, grants, scholarships, etc. and with the contracting of capital improvement projects. With a unified voice some of these infrastructure projects will be developed and buil[t]d by us in our communities.
This new world market, which can only expand, provides opportunities that abound; we have family and in-laws around the world, and when the companies and industries begin finding that potential clients and customers are looking to patronize businesses that are more reflective of their family members, those qualified will be in high demand and will be represented from the top executives to the receptionist.
Those of us who are more fortunate should become entrepreneurs in revitalizing our communities. We as a family need to get out of debt and pool our resources, and make our children, our elders and the legacy of our Ancestors, Proud!
Ivan Butcher II
http://howwechange.proboards.com/
I am currently the founder of HowWeChange Forum. This forum was created to track Obama's progress in his promise for change. I have assembled the Forum in a manner that is not Biased nor competitive, but more of a discussion forum to allow you to speak your mind about his Ideal of change and start groups to help change our growing country. You can establish groups that add onto exsisting groups; Like efforts to help end Breast Cancer, or Donating to your school or charity etc. So if you want to keep track of change and/or create and help with change please visit HowWeChange Forums.
-Steven Kelly
The group met on December 17, 2008 at the Camden Regioinal Library, Camdenton, MO. Great turnout! Our Camdenton Team now has 38 members, wow. We all brought cans of food for the holiday food drive for the Child Advocacy Council and we adopted a family of 4 children. We passed that hat and collected enough money to buy Christmas presents for all, and those were wrapped and delivered on Friday, December 19. At the meeting we brainstormed community issues of concern and came up with the following list:
* Education: reading programs for children, childrens library books, children in need (Child Advocacy Council), college scholarships, in school harassment/bullying * Child Advocacy: school lunches, help with Child Adv. projects, Kids' harbor * Environment: recycling, weighting environment vs. development, green industry * Economy: jobs counseling, help for homeless, assist in recruitment of industry to area, help small businesses in learning how to do better * Social Justice: civil rights in rural area, peace, immigration concerns, police corruption, peace treaty monitoring, court advocacy * Government: court and grand jury advocacy, jail visitation, gov't. watch/tracking politicians performance, recruitment of people to run for local office, recruitment of progressive leaders, long range planning for next election, term limits, sunshine laws/transparent govt * Health Care: universal health care issues, disability access, visits to homebound people, cheap medical clinic with upfront pricing, volunteer at county health dept. We had discussion on many of these ideas. On the suggestion of a couple of members we decided a first step was in identifying our existing organizations in Camden County, what they are about, when they meet, and contact information. Three members agreed to tackle this.
We discussed and decided to go with a countywide Diaper Drive for our Inaugural charitable event.
Our next gathering will be around the Inauguration, i.e. watch parties, ball and charitable event.
The Pajama Program is a non-profit organization that provides new, warm pajamas and books to children in need in the United States and around the world, many who are waiting and hoping to be adopted. The program started with personal contributions from founders Genevieve Piturro, her friend Alice Clark, and their friends and relatives. The Pajama Program has grown nationwide and now receives contributions from generous supporters and fundraising events across the country.
One such event is the Obama Pajama Inauguration Charity Ball being held in Washington D.C. Sunday, January 18th. Hosted by reknowned actress, Carrie Fisher, the event begins at 7pm with a VIP Dinner in the Rotunda of the Ronald Reagan Building followed at 8pm by a Gala Reception in the Pavillion. Attire is black tie/ball gown or pajamas/nightgown.
A natural and perfectly complimentary patner, Ojamas Sleepwear, is co-sponsoring the event. Click here to buy tickets or make a donation. Be sure to bring your Ojamas with you or order yours today.
One of my bosses has written a seminal work on Charity and it's place in society. His name is Dan Palotta, and the book is "Uncharitable". I'm not plugging his book but I am saying that he has articulated a point that is one of THE most overlooked possibilities in our culture today. And that is invigorating our charitable organizations.
At this point I should say that this anything below is not Dan's idea. He has inspired me to think about these notions and write about them. I apologize to Dan if I have come up with any uneducated ideas. Please read the book if you want educated and experienced thought on this subject. This is my take on what government could do for charities. I see invigorating charitable organizations as one path out of our economic woes. In other words bail out charities.
In the flow of the charitable dollar it takes a series of workers. In that chain when does the first worker fill out a W2? The goal may be to cure a patient's cancer. The pharmaceutical worker gets paid. The organizer of the event gets paid a stipend. The volunteer raising the money is doing it for altruistic reasons.
So why not treat all the worker's positions as "real jobs"? After all these charitable organizations are in many ways the research and development wing of highly profitable industries.
The reason I'm blogging on this site is I think a true path to putting people to work would be to form a Federal Department of Charity. To regulate the Charity Industry and promote it. Just like a Department of Economic Development. Accountability is the key. We want highly successful charities that deliver more dollars to the task. Not more of the dollar to the task. Just like in the commercial world. Do you want to invest in a company the makes more money or makes more pennies per dollar?
Again all of the above are my ideas. The real ideas and educated premises are in Dan's book.
I await the wisdom.
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A year ago, the One Laptop per Child (OLPC http://laptop.org ) program began it's innovative charitable giving program "Give One, Get One" through which you can provide a specially designed child- and developing-world-friendly laptop computer. I 'gave one and got one' at that time and it's been a fun way to introduce my now 4-year-old to computers without having to stress about her hurting "Daddy's computer."
I'll admit that it's not the most powerful computer in the world, but I would consider it comparable to an iPhone in capabilities but with a real (though kid-sized) keyboard, and a 4" X 7" screen. I brought ours to the local Obama call center and used it for making calls. It has web-browsing (with a powerful wifi antenna), a word-processor, lots of games, and multimedia capabilities such as a music player, a webcam and movie camera, and a text-to-speech program which is my daughter's favorite.
Anyway, the program is back again, and is being managed through Amazon. You 'Give One' by donating $199 to purchase a computer for a child overseas (they will also receive at least one charging system that doesn't require them to connect to the electrical grid), and can then also 'Get One' for another $200 plus shipping (yours come with an AC adaptor only). http://tinyurl.com/Give1Get1
