Come Here My Son
California's were the real party is, and now some are getting the bill. LA catholic church will pay half a billion dollars to settle child abuse claims, bringing the total payments to two billion dollars in the past fifty years.
Now when I see this sort of money I cannot help but reach for my little imaginary calculator. Google shows there are about fifty thousand catholic clergy in the USA, a number that didn't change much in the past fifty years. That means at twenty bucks a pop, each one of those fifty thousand men could have it every single week for the past fifty years. Whatever that twenty bucks thing is, that is.
In fact, they could have invested the money. If they did, they could have had it every other day, and still keep the money. Now that's the power of compound interest. So if you are ever to start a child abusing organization, crunch some numbers beforehand.
Half a billion is an enormous number, and you'd think now that their image is damaged anyways, they would fight as much as they can for the money. How come they keep losing in courts? I understand it that the vast majority of evidence are just words from the victims themselves, but they keep losing. Does this mean there's some much more raunchy evidence everyone would love to know? Or something is wrong with the court system as well?
Now when I see this sort of money I cannot help but reach for my little imaginary calculator. Google shows there are about fifty thousand catholic clergy in the USA, a number that didn't change much in the past fifty years. That means at twenty bucks a pop, each one of those fifty thousand men could have it every single week for the past fifty years. Whatever that twenty bucks thing is, that is.
In fact, they could have invested the money. If they did, they could have had it every other day, and still keep the money. Now that's the power of compound interest. So if you are ever to start a child abusing organization, crunch some numbers beforehand.
Half a billion is an enormous number, and you'd think now that their image is damaged anyways, they would fight as much as they can for the money. How come they keep losing in courts? I understand it that the vast majority of evidence are just words from the victims themselves, but they keep losing. Does this mean there's some much more raunchy evidence everyone would love to know? Or something is wrong with the court system as well?
1 comment:
Probably a little bit of both. There are so many secrets within the Catholic church as a whole that I don't think even its own members know the half of it sometimes. Crazy, though. Hope all is well with you!
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