Is Obama, really his brothers keeper?

[Danno 1,228]

LIBERALS GIVE 'TIL IT HURTS (YOU)

December 29, 2010

Liberals never tire of discussing their own generosity, particularly when demanding that the government take your money by force to fund shiftless government employees overseeing counterproductive government programs.

They seem to have replaced "God" with "Government" in scriptural phrases such as "love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind." (Matthew 22:37)

This week, we'll take a peek at the charitable giving of these champions of the poor.

In 2009, the Obamas gave 5.9 percent of their income to charity, about the same as they gave in 2006 and 2007. In the eight years before he became president, Obama gave an average of 3.5 percent of his income to charity, upping that to 6.5 percent in 2008.

The Obamas' charitable giving is equally divided between "hope" and "change."

George W. Bush gave away more than 10 percent of his income each year he was president, as he did before becoming president.

Thus, in 2005, Obama gave about the same dollar amount to charity as President George Bush did, on an income of $1.7 million -- more than twice as much as President Bush's $735,180. Again in 2006, Bush gave more to charity than Obama on an income one-third smaller than Obama's.

In the decade before Joe Biden became vice president, the Bidens gave a total -- all 10 years combined -- of $3,690 to charity, or 0.2 percent of their income. They gave in a decade what most Americans in their tax bracket give in an average year, or about one row of hair plugs.

Of course, even in Biden's stingiest years, he gave more to charity than Sen. John Kerry did in 1995, which was a big fat goose egg. Kerry did, however, spend half a million dollars on a 17th-century Dutch seascape painting that year, as Peter Schweizer reports in his 2008 book, "Makers and Takers."

To be fair, 1995 was an off-year for Kerry's charitable giving. The year before, he gave $2,039 to charity, and the year before that a staggering $175.

He also dropped a $5 bill in the Salvation Army pail and almost didn't ask for change.

In 1998, Al Gore gave $353 to charity -- about a day's take for a lemonade stand in his neighborhood. That was 10 percent of the national average for charitable giving by people in the $100,000-$200,000 income bracket. Gore was at the very top of that bracket, with an income of $197,729.

When Sen. Ted Kennedy released his tax returns to run for president in the '70s, they showed that Kennedy gave a bare 1 percent of his income to charity -- or, as Schweizer says, "about as much as Kennedy claimed as a write-off on his 50-foot sailing sloop Curragh." (Cash tips to bartenders and cocktail waitresses are not considered charitable donations.)

The Democratic base gives to charity as their betters do. At the same income, a single mother on welfare is seven times less likely to give to charity than a working poor family that attends religious services.

In 2006 and 2007, John McCain, who files separately from his rich wife, gave 27.3 percent and 28.6 percent of his income to charity.

In 2005, Vice President Cheney gave 77 percent of his income to charity. He also shot a lawyer in the face, which I think should count for something.

In a single year, Schweizer reports, Rush Limbaugh "gave $109,716 to 'various individuals in need of assistance mainly due to family illnesses,' $52,898 to 'children's case management organizations,' including 'various programs to benefit families in need,' $35,100 for 'Alzheimer's community care -- day care for families in need,' and $40,951 for air conditioning units and heaters delivered to troops in Iraq."

(Rush also once gave $50 to Maxine Waters after mistaking her for a homeless person.)

The only way to pry a liberal from his money is to hold tickertape parades for him, allowing him to boast about his charity in magazines and on TV.

Isn't that what Jesus instructed in the Sermon on the Mount?

"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do ... But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." (Matthew 6:2-4)

In my Bible, that passage is illustrated with a photo of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.

At least the hypocrites in the Bible, Redmond, Wash., and Omaha, Neb., who incessantly brag about their charity actually do pony up the money.

Elected Democrats crow about how much they love the poor by demanding overburdened taxpayers fund government redistribution schemes, but can never seem to open their own wallets.

The only evidence we have that Democrats love the poor is that they consistently back policies that will create more of them.

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[luckytxn 2,265]

Socialists don't need to give personally as they have the citizens to do that for them. They are very free with the taxpayers money to over compensate for their own lack......

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

The liberals I know are also the least-generous people I know. And they still hate Bush..... I hear about him all the time.

[Danno 1,228]

And speaking of being a "brothers keeper".. is Obamers Bro still living in that Hut in Kenya?

[lostinblue 1,989]

http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0616/Billionaires-Bill-Gates-Warren-Buffett-want-other-billionaires-to-donate-more-to-charity

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett are launching a campaign to get other American billionaires to give at least half their wealth to charity.

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Philanthropist helps students give peace a chance Private philanthropy's global reach Patty Stonesifer, former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Gates and Buffett have been campaigning for the past year to get others to donate the bulk of their wealth.

The friends and philanthropic colleagues are asking people to pledge to donate either during their lifetime or at the time of their death.

Obama and other liberals think that government is better positioned to dole out the stash rather than the people who made the dollars.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Ah yes, another gem from Ann "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building" Coulter. Wonderful!

[Pooky 3,844]

Ah yes, another gem from Ann "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building" Coulter. Wonderful!

Just because Ann Coulter wrote it, doesn't mean it isn't true.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Just because Ann Coulter wrote it, doesn't mean it isn't true.

Whatever Ann Coulter writes has so much spin on it that whatever element of truth might be contained in it surely gets lost.

Edited December 31, 2010 by Mr. Big Dog

[Pooky 3,844]

Whatever Ann Coulter writes has so much spin on it that whatever element of truth might be contained in it surely gets lost.

Then don't just say it, prove it.

[Danno 1,228]

Ah yes, another gem from Ann "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building" Coulter. Wonderful!

I know you have a sense of humor..... when you want too.

Anns Writing is full of such stuff, do you really think any national publication (not to mention thousands of them) would print stuff like that if it were serious?

In the above posted Piece she also says this :

"In 2005, Vice President Cheney gave 77 percent of his income to charity. He also shot a lawyer in the face, which I think should count for something".

Which I also thought was funny.