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Short sellers are facing their worst losses in at least a decade, a Wall Street Journal analysis has found, as many of the rising stocks they bet against have only continued to soar.
That has stung several high-profile hedge-fund managers, including William Ackman and David Einhorn, who have placed prominent short bets.
In the Russell 3000 index, the 100 most heavily shorted stocks are sharply outperforming the average returns of stocks in the index, according to a Journal analysis of data provided by S&P Capital IQ. The shorted stocks are up by an average of 33.8% through Aug. 16, versus 18.3% for all stocks in the index.
The gap between the performance of the most-shorted shares—as measured by percent of total shares outstanding at the beginning of the years—and the market as a whole is wider than it has been in at least a decade.
"If you just took hedge funds' long positions, you would have pretty stellar performance," said Greg Dowling of Fund Evaluation Group, a Cincinnati-based investment firm that invests client money in hedge funds. "It's on the short side where guys have been getting killed."
Stock hedge funds are expected to outperform when markets fall but underperform during bull runs, since they generally hedge their bets by betting against stocks. But the gap is wider than usual. Through July, stock hedge funds returned 7.7% on average, compared with 19.6% by the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, including dividends.
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People walked in a Tesla Motors Inc. dealership in June in Miami. Tesla's stock is up 301.6% year-to-date through Aug. 16. Getty Images
In short selling, an investor sells borrowed shares in hopes of buying them back later at a lower price, and pocketing the difference. When the price goes up instead, the investor suffers a loss.
To some managers, the current dynamic is reminiscent of the final days of the dot-com bubble, when stocks continued to rise despite high valuations of many Internet companies.
"It's actually more painful now than it was in '99," said veteran short seller Andrew Left of Beverly Hills, Calif.-based Citron Research. He called the outperformance of widely shorted stocks this year "a fairy tale" driven by institutions chasing returns.
A losing trade for Mr. Left since July has been electric-car maker Tesla Motors Inc., TSLA +5.60% Tesla Motors Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $147.47 +7.82 +5.60% Dec. 12, 2013 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 10.68M AFTER HOURS $147.20 -0.27 -0.18% Dec. 12, 2013 7:59 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 86,072 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $17.12 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $575,104 12/12/13 Morning Links: Bouncing Back 12/03/13 Tesla's Tumble Is a Buying Opp... 12/03/13 Morning Links: Missing Out on ... More quote details and news » one of the most heavily shorted stocks in the market. Tesla's stock price has gone up more than 300% this year, including a 32% rise since June 28.
A Tesla spokeswoman declined to comment.
In April, Tesla CEO Elon Musk jabbed on Twitter at doubters: "Seems to be some stormy weather over in Shortville these days."
Other heavily shorted companies that have kept rising are Zillow Inc., Z +0.65% Zillow Inc. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq $73.24 +0.47 +0.65% Dec. 12, 2013 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.06M AFTER HOURS $73.50 +0.26 +0.35% Dec. 12, 2013 6:20 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 80,481 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $2.86 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee N/A 12/01/13 Web Companies Embrace TV Ads 11/01/13 Risk Seen in Small-Cap Growth ... More quote details and news » up 222%; Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc., QCOR +2.69% Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $53.43 +1.40 +2.69% Dec. 12, 2013 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.76M AFTER HOURS $53.43 0.00 0.00% Dec. 12, 2013 7:36 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 23,040 P/E Ratio 11.93 Market Cap $3.16 Billion Dividend Yield 2.25% Rev. per Employee $1,286,500 More quote details and news » up 151%; and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc., GMCR -1.15% Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $71.28 -0.83 -1.15% Dec. 12, 2013 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.90M AFTER HOURS $71.30 +0.02 +0.03% Dec. 12, 2013 6:43 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 10,126 P/E Ratio 22.07 Market Cap $10.75 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $691,762 11/21/13 Green Mountain Coffee's Profit... 11/21/13 Einhorn Discloses New Micron T... 11/21/13 Stocks to Watch: Target, Green... More quote details and news » up 76%. Green Mountain declined to comment; spokespeople for Zillow and Questcor said the short sellers often didn't understand their businesses or were focused on short-term price swings in the stock.
As happened with the Internet boom, Mr. Left and other managers believe their short positions will be proved right—eventually.
Meanwhile, some hedge funds are posting lackluster results.
Hedge-fund Dialectic Capital Management LLC told investors in a recent letter that its heavily short-biased fund was down 13.3% for the year through July, with a 6.3% loss in July alone. Its flagship fund, which is market-neutral, was down 3.7%. The firm managed $830 million at the end of last year, according to a regulatory filing.
Dialectic, which has bet against stocks including Herbalife Ltd. HLF -1.54% Herbalife Ltd. U.S.: NYSE $68.60 -1.07 -1.54% Dec. 12, 2013 4:03 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.71M AFTER HOURS $69.00 +0.40 +0.58% Dec. 12, 2013 7:25 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 2,627 P/E Ratio 13.67 Market Cap $7.06 Billion Dividend Yield 1.75% Rev. per Employee N/A 12/03/13 Bill Ackman's Pershing Square ... 11/22/13 Ackman Will Take Herbalife Bet... 11/20/13 Herbalife Gains Another Activi... More quote details and news » and Nu Skin Enterprises Inc., NUS +2.61% Nu Skin Enterprises Inc. Cl A U.S.: NYSE $128.81 +3.28 +2.61% Dec. 12, 2013 4:03 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 919,227 AFTER HOURS $129.69 +0.88 +0.68% Dec. 12, 2013 4:47 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 418 P/E Ratio 25.26 Market Cap $7.47 Billion Dividend Yield 0.93% Rev. per Employee $735,140 More quote details and news » according to a person familiar with the firm, is exiting some money-losing short positions and focusing on investments with a better chance of paying off soon. "In a raging bull market, we just can't wait around for the market to realize we are right," its letter to investors said.
Nu Skin's share price has more than doubled so far this year. A company spokeswoman said the company had "strong fundamentals."
Herbalife's stock price has roughly doubled this year, also creating losses for Mr. Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management LP, which announced a more than $1 billion bet against the company in December.
Mr. Ackman defended his investment Tuesday. "Herbalife is a pyramid scheme," he said. "We've not learned one fact that is inconsistent with that conclusion."
Herbalife has rejected Mr. Ackman's allegations and said it is a legitimate business. An Herbalife spokesman said "the facts clearly do not support" Mr. Ackman's short position against the company.
Funds that have performed better still have been hurt by their short bets.
The $2.1-billion Lakewood Capital Management LP, based in New York, returned 0.1% in the second quarter, with the firm's gains from bets on stocks largely canceled out by losses on short positions. Through Aug. 9, Lakewood had gained more than 8%, according to a person familiar with the firm.
"It has been a challenging period for short selling in recent months with companies of questionable value regularly registering impressive stock price gains, often in the absence of any meaningful positive developments," wrote Lakewood founder Anthony Bozza in a July investor letter.
Mr. Einhorn's $8.8 billion Greenlight Capital Inc. returned 1.2% in the second quarter, and gains in July were nearly halved by losses on shorts, according to communications with investors. For the first seven months of the year, the fund rose 10.7%.
Greenlight has been shorting Green Mountain, whose shares slumped after Mr. Einhorn raised questions about its growth prospects in the fall of 2011. But the shares this year have risen briskly.
Investors and managers say the shorted stocks that are outperforming are getting a boost from hedge funds covering their shorts, or buying back shares at a loss, in what is known as a "short squeeze" when it happens en masse. That in turn pushes the stock price higher.
Some short sellers expect the end of the Federal Reserve's massive bond-buying program to drive share prices down of certain companies. Already in August, the markets have experienced consecutive down days that have helped short positions.
But for most of 2013, small dips in the market have been followed by bigger jumps.
Mr. Bozza, of Lakewood, is waiting out the market. He wrote he had often seen stocks he was short—whose share price had risen dramatically untethered to significant developments—later collapse "in spectacular fashion." That remains a possibility for Tesla, his worst-performing short, he wrote. "While we certainly respect the possibility we could be wrong here," Mr. Bozza wrote, "our continued evaluation of Tesla has reinforced our conviction in our short position."
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So back to why i was on and off for the first 2 yrs of lifting. Well as i stated i was "sick". Not your normal sick tho, i have Crohns Colitis, and its very sever which means its been hard to control and keep me somewhat "stable"! Crohns complicates many things, and is part of why its SOOO hard for me to gain mass not to mention already being an ecto. I have had it, or well diagnosed since i was 10years old. Many Trips in and outta the hospital here in Idaho and in Utahs Primary Childerens, couple times close to deaths door, poked and prodded more times then anyone would want to imagine, used as a test baby for a couple drugs one of which im still on(remicade), and many many other things. Sooo you can say, ive grown up being a hell of a fighter to say the least! My attitude is nothing less then amazing and i know this. Anyone who knows me will tell ya as well! I live min to min, hr to hr, day to day, month to month and year to year with this and have overcome things that not many can imagine, let alone do! If you would like to know more about my "condition" or Crohns/Colitis PM me. A couple guys on here know what it is since they are in the medical field and a couple have family or friends with it!
So now im on my own adventure of lifting, and trying to build mass the best way i know how, and thats to learn as much as i can and apply it to myself with the understanding that i will come out on top one way or another!
That said, i love to learn about everything and anything that will help myself and others which in turn will help me to teach others! So if you have any type of advise you would like to give, pls, i invite you to give it, but i ask, give it in a respectful manner!
Not a bad intro, no? Ok then.... Lets start this journey off with a
***PS- This log was started due to the kindness, humbleness, knowledge, and motivation the guy below me has shown! Suncloud, you my friend are a stand up guy to say the least!
145pds 5yrs ago! Diamond Chest Pushups. My friend there dead on the floor lost his own bet to me cause hes "bigger and stronger", or so he thought! Im always underestimated!
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With the long, wet and rainy spring finally behind us, Hudson County kids (and fun-loving adults) have a plethora of pools to choose from.
Most Hudson County towns offer places to do a cannonball, take a high dive, or at least lounge in the sun.
For Hoboken residents, the Hoboken High School pool is the only game in town. This summer, the high school pool at Ninth and Clinton streets will be open Monday through Thursday. Besides the all-day adult swim, toddlers can use the pool from 10 to 11 a.m.; beginners (5-10 years old), who must be accompanied by an adult, from 1 to 3 p.m.; experienced swimmers (8-13 years old) from 3 to 5 p.m.; family swim on Tuesday and Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m., and adult swim conditioning on Monday and Wednesday from 8 to 9 p.m. There is a $25 fee for six weeks of family swim.
Family swim consists of two adults and a maximum of three children. Each additional child is $10. Those interested in using the pool can register at City Hall, 94 Washington St., between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. To register children, parents will need to present a copy of their birth certificate and proof of residency such as a rent receipt or gas bill. Classes are filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Hoboken also features a fountain located at the top of Pier A Park to allow people who can't access a pool to be able to cool off. Thick streams of chlorinated water shoot 10 feet into the air through holes in the pavement and come splashing back to earth in a cooling burst of refreshment. Local kids (and some adults) can be found riding their bicycles and running through the refreshing spray during the summer months.
Jersey City
Jersey City, being the largest town in Hudson County, boasts the largest number of pools to serve its wide and diverse population.
There are 13 pools to choose from and according to Jersey City Recreation Department representative Joe Macchi, each pool has specific times of the day that cater to different groups.
"We have many non-profit organizations and different groups that come in and use the pools," said Macchi. There are also many programs available at different pools such as "Learn to Swim" classes.
According to Jersey City Community Outreach Supervisor Frank Falcicchio, all of the pools are indoor facilities, with the exception of the Pavonia Pool, which is outdoors.
Said Falcicchio, "There are a number of citizens in Jersey City that because of financial constraints, are forced to stay in town for the whole summer. They don't have the advantage of going away, and it is the mandate of the Recreation Department to offer programs that will give them something constructive to do during the summer months. We have arts and crafts sessions as well as cultural events."
Various Jersey City pools are open from 9a.m. to 9 p.m. to residents only and are free to use, with the exception of the Pershing Field pool facility, which costs $3 for adults and $2 for children.
Because of the high number of facilities in this sprawling Hudson County city, Falcicchio recommends that anyone interested in finding out pool times call the main pool number to be given at the end of this article.
Union City
Union City residents' choice of pools to splash around in was reduced by exactly half last summer when the 47th Street pool on the corner of Palisade and 47th Street was closed due to structural defects under the fiberglass body of the pool. This necessitated the constant patching of the bottom of the pool, and engineers finally had enough and recommended the closure of the pool. Said Parks and Recreation Commissioner Michael Leggiero, "Last year, the bottom literally and figuratively fell out of the pool."
Luckily, Union City boasts another pool, an indoor facility. The Bruce D. Walter Pool located on West and Fifth Streets (adjacent to the Edison School), sports shower facilities and a locker room.
Said Bruce Walter Pool Aquatic Director Elke Tatulli, "I think the way we set up the facility really benefits everybody. We divide up the days. We have different groups at different times. Everyone has their special time. Union City tries to offer a lot of activities to give the kids something to do and to keep them off the streets."
The Walter Pool is open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. five days a week and is open on Sundays from 8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. The pool is closed on Sundays and open to Union City residents only. It's free.
Residents rejoiced in early May when it was announced that construction would begin in earnest on a brand new 47th Street Pool. The project, which is slated to be completed by either December of this year or January 2004, will be the only pool facility in Hudson County to feature a motorized retractable roof, something Union City Mayor Brain Stack wanted from the very beginning and lobbied quite hard to get.
According to the mayor, approximately $1.5 million of the approximately $3.1 million total cost of the project will be coming from state Green Acres funding, which Stack, in his role as a Hudson County freeholder, was instrumental in securing. The local Community Development Agency, under Director Kennedy Ng, will be contributing $1 million in funding, with the rest coming from "various county grants," according to the mayor.
West New York
The West New York Swim Center located on 60th Street directly below Boulevard East boasts what is perhaps the best view of all of Hudson County's pools. The New York City skyline is in plain sight to the east.
Said West New York Pool supervisor Arthur Kogge, "We have a draw that other pools do not with the New York City skyline in the background. The pool isn't the biggest, but the view is great."
The facility now sports a new stairway and deck leading to the main pool house and a new pool deck around the pool itself.
According to Kogge, the pool is open to the general public, including non-West New York residents. West New York residents who wish to become pool members for a summer season will pay $99 for the first adult family member and $49 for each additional adult member. Children 5 and under are free.
West New Yorkers who do not wish to become pool members but still want to use the facility may do so for $5 during the week and $6 on weekends. Out-of-towners must pay $10 during the week and $12 on weekends.
The pool hosts official recreation department activities on weekday mornings, so the pool is actually open to the public from 12 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and it is open on weekends from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thirty-five to 40 kids from Guttenberg are bused to the pool twice weekly to use it.
Said Lifeguard Supervisor John Diaz, "I like doing this a lot. It gets the kids away from the heat and the streets."
The facility also has a baby wading pool and a picnic area for those who get hungry after spending five straight hours in the water. Remember, though, to wait at least a half hour to go back in the water after eating!
Secaucus, being the most "suburban" of Hudson's County's towns (and being closest to Bergen County), not surprisingly boasts the most spacious facility. Sporting four distinct pools (an Olympic-sized pool, a diving tank, a lap pool, and a wading pool for the kiddies the Secaucus Swim Center is open to non-residents. Secaucus residents may "sponsor" someone from another town to be a guest of the pool. Guests pay $8 during the week and $10 on weekends.
A full (weekly) pool membership for residents is $145, and it's $225 for non-residents.
According to Secaucus Swim Center officials, day passes are available to Secaucus residents who are not members and to non-resident guests of pool members provided that they are accompanied by pool members.
According to Secaucus Swim Center Supervisor John Schwartz, day camps and other groups stay in one corner and everybody else mingles around. "We also have a lap pool that is strictly for adults so they can do laps," he said. "The older folks like that feature."
Schwartz also added that the pool runs swimming classes conducted by the lifeguards. These are half-hour classes that run from 9 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. on weekdays during the summer season.
Hours are 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekly and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on the weekends.
North Bergen and Weehawken
North Bergen had the bad fortune last year to have its one municipal pool closed down due to environmental concerns. According to published accounts, the pool, located between 89th and 91st Streets, was shut down when high levels of PCB's (polychlorinated biphenyls) and oil were found in the groundwater beneath the complex.
The shutdown has forced North Bergen into an agreement with Secaucus to use that municipality's facility. North Bergen residents will be charged $220 for a full summer membership to Secaucus' facility. This is less that what other non-residents would pay.
As tiny Weehawken does not have a pool facility, their children are bused to the West New York swim center, and just recently an agreement was reached to bus some Weehawken children to Secaucus' facility.
For more information, contact the recreation departments in each town: in Hoboken, (201) 420-2012; in Secaucus, (201) 866-2421; in Jersey City, (201) 547-4582; in Weehawken, (201) 392-2061; in West New York, (201) 295-5080; and in Union City, (201) 392-3696.


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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect more than 1 billion people around the world and are prevalent in more than 149 countries.
It's a basic tenant of our industry: the well-being of patients is one of the most important pillars of the biopharmaceutical industry. Whether in the creation of new medications or updating information about current medicine, our industry strives to educate patients safely and transparently on the status of treatments that could change their lives.
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Biopharmaceutical research companies have already conducted more than 3,400 clinical trials of new medicines in Alabama since 1999. And Governor Robert Bentley made clear yesterday his desire to see the valuable partnership between the biopharmaceutical sector and his state's research institutions continue well into the future.
Fake medicines put patients and the public at risk. In the U.S. almost all fake medicines enter the drug supply through purchases over the internet. This is a pervasive problem all around the world.
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Obama's go-together appealU.S. President Barack Obama's three-day visit to Korea was a well-plotted drama with a strong message and political symbolism. Hours before his visit, he nominated the Korean-American Jim Yong Kim, president of Ivy League school Dartmouth College as president of the World Bank. It would be the first time in the World Bank's history for an American with Asian roots to become president. It would also be the first time for a Korean or ethnic Korean to head two of the three powerful organizations ― the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Obama's nominating Kim as the World Bank's leader also symbolizes his appreciation of Koreans' zeal for education, can-do spirit and the rags-to-riches economic history. The nomination comes after Korean-American Sung Kim became ambassador to Korea. Upon arrival Sunday, Obama visited the DMZ, freedom's frontier, on the eve of the day when 46 brave souls perished aboard the Cheonan two years ago. He asked the North to choose between peace and isolation, adding that the United States has no hostile intent toward the Confucian Communist country. Obama says unification will surely come about although it may not come easily or without great sacrifice. He said, ``When it does, change will unfold that once seemed impossible. Checkpoints will open, and watchtowers will stand empty, and families long separated will finally be reunited. The Korean people, at long last, will be whole and free.'' He said that Koreans are one people, adding that Koreans in the North are also capable of making great progress if just given the chance and freedom. As Obama indicated, the divided Koreas are contrasting examples of prosperity and poverty. South Korea has become a model of a successful capitalist country practicing democracy. North Korea has become an epitome of self-destruction through its close-door policy, repression, dictatorship and self-reliance ideology. Obama lauded South Korea as a modern miracle, transforming itself from crushing poverty to one of the world's most dynamic economies; from authoritarianism to a thriving democracy; from a country focused inward to a leader for security and prosperity not only in this region but also around the world ― a truly ``global Korea.'' His Monday visit to the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies has symbolism of giving hope and pride to the students struggling to study to land decent jobs. He encouraged them to inherit the pride, heritage, sacrifice and struggle their parents have made to make Korea what it is today. The great communicator knows how to impress his audience. He mentioned Me2day and Kakao Talk, popular local text message services, as tools for social media communication. He gave hope to the students that the world is a stage where they can fulfill their dreams, only on condition that they can speak English better than he can speak Korean. Equally impressive was his appeal for an enduring alliance between Korea and the United States. He reaffirmed that South Korea is under the U.S. nuclear umbrella. This was his third visit to Korea as President. He has now been to Seoul more times than any other foreign capital. He said this reflects the extraordinary bonds and mutual commitments between the two countries. In his view, there is no limit to what the two countries can achieve together. White House aides crafted four key messages through Obama's visit to Seoul ― enduring alliance, giving hope to the young generation and appreciation of Korea's potential and a message of ultimate unification. He mentioned the global popularity of hallyu, or the Korean cultural wave, is no coincidence. By touching the hearts of Koreans, he might have tried to weaken the voice of those deriding the strong Korea-U.S. alliance. 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Katy's the 39th most successful artist of all time on the Hot 100, according to Billboard!!http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/5557800/hot-100-55th-anniversary-by-the-numbers-top-100-artists-most-no
Okay!Katy has been fucked over by Lady CaCa and her shit label Interscope who've deleted Blurred Lines OFF iTunes to ensure it builds up demand and blocks Katy from #1 her first week and then she deffo won't beat Gaga's debut. This charts wars shit has too stop, GaGa is the worst and Interscope have done this before with GaGa.
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Catechetics, Apologetics & Liturgy
I feel like such a bad Catholic...
Growing up, I volunteered a lot often helping out those in poverty stricken areas. Some of these areas have included the stripped coal mines of the Appalachian Mountains in Kentucky, the South Side of Chicago, and Eagle Pass Texas. I worked within programs that had partnered with my church to help those less fortunate. However, I found myself becoming frustrated and judgmental after working in those areas.One example included some volunteer work getting a trailor home up to building code in Kentucky. All the while we were working on the home, the owner of the home sat inside watching cable TV with his nice Camaro sitting in his driveway. It seemed as if this person wasn't suffering a hardship, they simply mismanaged how they allocated their resources. I mean, I don't even have cable TV! Again, hear me out, I swear I don't have ice water in my veins, I just sometimes struggle offering help given a scenario such as that.
To make a long story short, my business background has taught me something to the effect of, "Give a man a fish, and he'll be hungry in a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll never go hungry." Therefore rather than issue the 'handout', I'm enticed to think many in unfortunate situations could greatly benefit from skills, education, training, and so forth to help them help themselves. By simply giving them food/money/assistance, we are essentially offering a positive reinforcement for them to stay in the same situation they are in (the same could be said for social programs offered by State/Federal government). Again, this is the economist in me coming alive. People will act in their own self interests and incentives.
However, I know this is NOT what the Bible teaches. There are plenty of passages regarding God's intention for us to take care of the poor, love thy neighbor, give away all of our possessions and follow him, to whom much is given much is expected, and so forth. Again, not that I'm abandoning the poor, I just have a hard time given my educational mission based on Adam Smith and Milton Friedman (Everyone acting in their own self interests is the best way for society to operate). I guess in the textbook, this holds true. But, I know that this is far from God's intention of the way we should live our lives.
Pardon all of my rambling. I was just having a conflict of conscious during my volunteering. This is something I'm certainly going to pray about for answers. Do any of you have any insight?
When I worked at the Missionaries of Charity in Africa for some months,I felt it was a great privilege to help
the poorest of the poor and had great empathy.Fast forward a few years while visiting my sister at the MCs here,I felt somewhat indignant seeing the poor that they helped here.With all the Government help and chances to better themselves,yet they didn't progress themselves.At that time I didn't have a lot of understanding of the personal trials,weaknesses,circumstances and vulnerabilities many people are debilitated by.
One of the best things that could have happened to me, was going through a very tough year financially
myself and going to a charity for a Christmas hamper for the children and I.As I sat waiting I observed the people around me ,hearing a little of their talk of their lives and trials.I thank God for that little experience that cured me of feeling superior ever.
The Nuns continue to provide without questioning I'm sure.
Above all, pray. Ask God to increase your love for him and to give you the willingness to do his will in all things.
I suspect the problem is spread without depth. Spread is when the workers on some specific charitable program descend like locusts on some recipient or bunch of recipients and munch up some specific technical problem, such as getting their trailer home up to code standard, and disappear to another project location when the technical job is done, without ever getting to know the recipients in a personal way. Because of their work with the charitable program, they know a lot of recipients and they know none of them. Plenty of spread but no depth.
Jesus, who is God, is the union of the empirical and the normative. Empirical
is what is, normative is what ought to be. Jesus is as he ought to be. And what
does he want from you? A personal relationship. He wants a personal
relationship from you because that is what he ought to want. Insofar as one is
allowed to say that God is designed for something, God is designed for love.
The personal relationship. And what of the human being who has Christ in him?
What ought that human being to want? A personal relationship also. From you or
from somebody else
It may be a coincidence but there's a thread in this Forum Room just below
yours asking what if youre alone in this world and nobody cares about you,
when you have nobody to talk to when youre feeling low at 10 pm on a Tuesday or
to do something with you when youre at loose ends at 3 pm on a Sunday. When the technicians have brought the trailer
home up to scratch and left, who is there to pick-me-up Mr Trailer Home Owner when
he is feeling low or at loose ends? That
is when the personal relationship and the beginnings of a process of hand-up
can occur.
There are many labourers in the vineyard. Some of them are gifted by God with the opportunity to see the recipient of charity come good. Others have to content themselves with knowing that they have tilled and planted a field from which another charity labourer will reap the harvest of seeing a recipient of charity come good. They themselves may not ever have the satisfaction of reaping a harvest. Some of them may wonder why Mr Trailer Home Owner is apparently indifferent to their charitable ministrations of a home engineering nature. They may not realise that Mr Trailer Home Owner is going to come good, but in the company of another charity labourer whose job was made easier because Mr Trailer Home Owners home was fixed and he now has one less thing in life to be grumpy about.
Burn out is a risk for charity labourers who become dispirited. Perhaps the solution is sometimes to do charity work of a spread nature, and sometimes to do charity work of a depth nature. Sometimes you till and plant a field for someone else, sometimes you reap from a field that someone has tilled and planted for you. Sometimes, you fix trailer homes, sometimes you sit and talk with Charity Recipient Joe Smith and do nothing other than sit and talk with Joe Smith and re-visit and re-visit Joe Smith until you sort of become like a friend, because a pit stop sit and talk with no further contact ever with that person is pretty useless useless for you, because youll never know if you could have made a difference to Joe Smith.
You need to know if you could have made a difference. To work at something without ever knowing whether it was worth it or not is simply to hand the burning candle of dispiritedness to Satan to look after for you. Being a proactive kind of guy, hell probably tend lovingly to it until the candle becomes a conflagration.
In case you thought my description of trailer home fixers as locusts who descend on one site of good deeds, eat away all the technical problems and take off for another site as a bit brusque, it is. Thats because I personally am a locust. After having reflected on this matter, Im come to the conclusion that Im just not patient and touchy-feely enough to pick-me-up Mr Trailer Home Owner at 10 pm and 3pm. I used to think I was but not any more. That requires emotional investment that I think other people are better suited to giving. I have other things Id rather be doing. Im happy to till and plant and let someone else see the harvest of a specific charity recipient come good. And if anybody complains, Ill say, Hey, is it better for Ben Bernanke to spend his precious working hours picking-me-up Mr Trailer Home Owner or should he be tilling and planting his patch of the economy so Mr Trailer Home Owner can continue to get his Social Security? Different strokes for different folks.
What are you, a spreader or a depther? You can be both. Spread is fun; you can do lots of different charity things. Variety is the spice of life. A change is as good as a holiday. Depth can also be fun (if you have the requisite personality), getting to know one person really well. Pick someone who seems obdurate to being helped, someone who seems to be a hand-out basketcase instead of a hand up role model and
And .
Storm his gates. Isnt that what you have to do if you really, really want something from God? Storm heaven? So, quietly, persistently and with the subjects passive acquiescence probably (at least in the beginning) be a friend whos there, storm his gates, again and again. Like parents persisting in upholding a relationship with their feckless drug addict child. Spread yourself as thinly as your interests desire when youre doing the locust stuff because you wont be getting to know too many people in depth, but in your depther role, pick one person or family and stay put for a good period of time. For years, perhaps. Just one person or family.
Is evangelisation a mass or an individual phenomenon? Both. Billy Graham handles the mass phenomenon side of the phenomenon (Im only mentioning his name because I cant think of any Catholic of his functional stature) but it takes thousands of individual pastors to keep each believers seed in good ground. Spread is mass and depth is individual. But both are necessary for the evangelistic purpose of helping a recipient of charity to become independent.
To make a long story short, my business background has taught me something to the effect of, "Give a man a fish, and he'll be hungry in a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll never go hungry." Therefore rather than issue the 'handout', I'm enticed to think many in unfortunate situations could greatly benefit from skills, education, training, and so forth to help them help themselves. By simply giving them food/money/assistance, we are essentially offering a positive reinforcement for them to stay in the same situation they are in (the same could be said for social programs offered by State/Federal government). Again, this is the economist in me coming alive. People will act in their own self interests and incentives.
Anyways, the clients do have to be registered with our pantry as abuse has been found in the past with people jumping from church to church getting the same "help" from each one. The process is respectful of those asking for the help. While they are waiting in our parish hall and enjoy pastries and coffee, our volunteer groups make the circuit getting everything on the list. Once gathered the volunteer group walks the client to their transportation with small chit-chat and puts everything into their vehicle for them. A small way of serving and treating them somewhat special.
I found myself in the same boat as you when we were walking to some folk's vehicles that were waayyyy nicer than my 1998 Isuzu Rodeo. I struggled with the same questions you had when I'm putting "free food" in a brand new Chevy Tahoe. I struggled when I watched the head of the food pantry making phone calls to people to remind them that the needed to pick up their baskets when it was close to closing time and they were still a no-show. I struggled listening to her explain that "no we can't deliver the food to you with our limited resources because you overslept". I guess my thought was that if I was receiving much needed food, I'd be there on-time.
In our de-brief, a brave soul actually brought up the same thoughts with our pastor. His responses stuck with me and helped me to see things differently.
1) We don't know the extent of everyone's story. Those could have been vehicles borrowed from a friend because theirs might not be working. Maybe the girl that overslept might have worked an overnight shift at a local convenience store and just couldn't make it. For as many people that might be taking advantage of the system, there are as many people that are truly being helped by what we do to make their burdens a little lighter. The appreciation given by those who truly know the cost of what we are giving them far outweighs those who don't seem to get it.
2) The whole "I'd be more grateful if I were them" sounds like something the Pharisees would say. We all know how Jesus felt about the Pharisees.
3) Our job is to answer the call not to worry about where the gifts go. When we come to our Judgment Day we can honestly say that we answered His call and provided to those in need. It's going to be on their judgment Day that they will have to answer whether they used those gifts appropriately or knowingly took away from someone else that could have used it more.
Hope that helps in some small way.
I hear what you are saying. I have volunteered at a few places where it sure seemed the persons were not particularly needy. IN Appalachia I helped on a house- the mom wanted a new room because her kid had too many toys. Meanwhile the main floor was sagging and needed fixing and there was plenty of other work that needed to be done. In 2007 I went to Bolivia to do a mission trip, and since I was an engineer I helped check out places for work. You should have seen some of the places we turned down. Compared to an Appalachian place they where really bad and in need. But in Bolivia they were not bad enough for help. We found several places that were a lot worse.
in someones shoes to know their needs''
........well that seem to fit here.........the emotional
..or spiritual need..............or other.......
needs satisfying also............
I agree to teach folks to fish or grow food is better
and don't have the whole picture here. In our very
not perfect world, hopefully these charities made
God's face shine on the recipients.
As Benedict XVI said in his encyclical, God is Love...
"Lovecaritaswill always prove necessary... Whoever wants to eliminate love is preparing to eliminate man as such. There will always be suffering which cries out for consolation and help. There will always be loneliness. There will always be situations of material need where help in the form of concrete love of neighbour is indispensable. The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering personevery personneeds: namely, loving personal concern. ...
The Church is one of those living forces: she is alive with the love enkindled by the Spirit of Christ. This love does not simply offer people material help, but refreshment and care for their souls, something which often is even more necessary than material support. In the end, the claim that just social structures would make works of charity superfluous masks a materialist conception of man: the mistaken notion that man can live by bread alone (Mt 4:4; cf. Dt 8:3)a conviction that demeans man and ultimately disregards all that is specifically human. "


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