{"id":17429,"date":"2012-05-04T01:15:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T04:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17429"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:13:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:13:55","slug":"mikey-weinstein-on-personal-finances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/04\/mikey-weinstein-on-personal-finances\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Weinstein on Personal Finances"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Weinstein, the sole paid officer of the “charity” he founded and runs, revels in having people perceive him as a martyr for his cause.\u00a0 He recently said<\/a> this about what his fight against religious freedom has cost him:<\/p>\n

Someone asked my wife how much do you owe? What did you have to give up, probably a lot huh? She was crying when she made the statement, “No, we didn\u2019t have to give up a lot, we had to give up everything.” There is no retirement fund. There is no retirement home. There is no sense of security…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are two possibilities. First, that Weinstein is grossly exaggerating.\u00a0 He and his organization play “fun with numbers” often, so this might be just another example.\u00a0 (Ever wonder why he constantly cites his “10 years as an Air Force JAG” but never gives dates <\/em>for that service…?\u00a0 Do the math.)\u00a0 Remember, too,\u00a0Weinstein has paid himself nearly a million dollars<\/a> out of the money his charity has raised.\u00a0 His charity’s budget covers travel expenses and, since he appears to work from home, probably an extensive amount of his home “office.”\u00a0 In other words, he’s paying himself a quarter million dollars a year and he likely has no substantial personal expenses.<\/p>\n

Still, maybe it was a sacrifice to give up the Dodge Viper in 2006<\/a> and settle on an exotic\u00a0Lotus instead.\u00a0 To borrow a political comparison, that kind of sacrifice could be hard on the 1%.<\/p>\n

The second possibility is Weinstein is in serious need of a financial planner.\u00a0 Some of his “clients” probably make less in a year <\/em>than he pays himself in a single month<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Actually, there is a third possibility.\u00a0 Weinstein may be out of touch with reality.\u00a0 Says he:<\/p>\n

Whenever I see unconstitutional religious tyranny of any type from any client, I don\u2019t care if I live or die, someone is going to get a f—ing beating, and I\u2019m going to be the one to do it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And he wonders why no one takes him seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Weinstein, the sole paid officer of the “charity” he founded and runs, revels in having people perceive him as a martyr for his cause.\u00a0 He recently said this about what his fight against religious freedom has cost him: Someone asked my wife how much do you owe? What did you have to give up, probably a lot huh? She […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[82,3175,3176,85,5218,7,10,171],"class_list":["post-17429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-constitution","tag-dodge-viper","tag-lotus","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}