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Obama is generous with YOUR money and stingy with his own.
TaxProf | 9/5/08 | Self

Posted on 09/05/2008 5:40:29 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants

Obama wants to be generous to poor people in Africa - with YOUR money, while his own half brother lives on $12 a YEAR. He is very stingy with his own. Despite making well over $1,000,000 in family income from 2000 to 2004, the Obamas listed less than $11,000 in charitable contributions for all five years combined

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If you think the Obamas just didn't want to claim their legal deductions, they had no problem in 2005 and 2006. Also note that the year Obama became senator his income jumped 700% from $200,000 to over $1.6 MILLION.

No wonder Rev Jeremiah Wright doesn't have anything good to say about Obama, HE DIDN'T EVEN TITHE!



TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: charity; giving; millionaires; obama; obamabiden; obamarecord; obamatruthfile; scroogeobama; taxandspend; tightwad
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1 posted on 09/05/2008 5:40:30 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Blood of Tyrants

OPM baby....


2 posted on 09/05/2008 5:43:40 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Rush was talking about hut sweet hut. It was hilarious.


3 posted on 09/05/2008 5:43:58 PM PDT by lookout88 (Combat search and rescue officer's dad.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
his own half brother lives on $12 a YEAR.

Sorry, I don't buy this, regardless of how often it's reported.

Hundreds of millions worldwide survive on about a dollar a day.

Nobody survives on a dollar a month. That would be three cents a day. Even in Kenya, you can't eat on that.

4 posted on 09/05/2008 5:45:08 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (qui)
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To: Sherman Logan

He cuts coupons out of the paper.


5 posted on 09/05/2008 5:48:29 PM PDT by Krankor (Are you claiming you eat toucans or)
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To: Sherman Logan

I think they misinterpreted the article. I read it as he pays $1 a month for rent of the hut. That doesn’t mean that’s how much he earns, just all he pays in rent. Of course he probably doesn’t make much more than that.


6 posted on 09/05/2008 5:48:41 PM PDT by autumnraine (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: Sherman Logan

You are missing the point. Obama lives in luxury and preaches about how WE should help the poor yet can’t even be bothered to send his half brother a few bucks.


7 posted on 09/05/2008 5:50:10 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

A ‘compassionate’ conservative wants you to be generous with your money to those who are in real need.

A bleeding heart liberal wants to take your money and be thought of as generous by redistributing it to groups they like.


8 posted on 09/05/2008 5:50:44 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
This is silly. We believe that people can do what they want with their money... and giving him grief over not giving 'enough' goes against that...

Its almost like the dems giving Palin and McCain grief over family value stuff that the dems don't practice themselves.

Hyprocrisy isn't going to win this election for us....

I personally give even less than Obama's lowest amounts to charities. .. because I don't trust non profits AT ALL. I give my money to family and friends who are in need .. and they aren't tax deductable orgs. I will NEVER give much money to ANY non profit. I have no desire to watch my cash used to jet non profit execs around in first class or pay for the other BS that most of them do.
9 posted on 09/05/2008 5:53:35 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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A liberal would give George Obama a few bucks and tell him to come back when he needed more. A conservative would find out what George Obama was interested in and help him figure out a way to make a living doing it.


10 posted on 09/05/2008 5:53:41 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Sherman Logan
Nobody survives on a dollar a month.

Barter. Trade. Just a guess.

11 posted on 09/05/2008 5:55:49 PM PDT by sionnsar (Obama?Bye-den!|Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|ObamasUnity=EinVolk,EinReich,EinFuhrer)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I donate my tag line to your cause.....


12 posted on 09/05/2008 5:56:34 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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That is a cop out. You apparently haven’t investigated many charitable organizations. For example, the Salvation Army uses less than 15% of the money the take in for overhead and NOBODY at the SA is a rich executive. There are also many homeless shelters in larger cities that refuse government money and do an excellent job of getting people back up on their feet.

If don’t want to give to worthy causes, don’t try to blame others’ failings.

Besides, this article is about the way liberals think that generosity begins by taking the money out of other people’s wallets.


13 posted on 09/05/2008 5:58:10 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Drango

Thank you. And a very fitting tag line for this article it is.


14 posted on 09/05/2008 6:00:29 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: StolarStorm
This is silly. We believe that people can do what they want with their money... and giving him grief over not giving 'enough' goes against that...

I personally give even less than Obama's lowest amounts to charities. .. because I don't trust non profits AT ALL. I give my money to family and friends who are in need...

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Religious conservatives are more generous than secular liberals. To see that BHO is not generous undercuts his claim to be a Christian. I think that is useful info.

That's nice that you give so much of you income to your friends and famiily. Just don't forget to file your gift tax returns. :)

15 posted on 09/05/2008 6:04:26 PM PDT by stillonaroll (McCain/Palin 2008!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

democrats, always willing to give someone the shirt off YOUR back.


16 posted on 09/05/2008 6:05:25 PM PDT by edzo4 (Vote McCain, Keep Your Change)
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To: Sherman Logan
'Nobody survives on a dollar a month. That would be three cents a day. Even in Kenya, you can't eat on that. '
 

Nobody lives in a hut either.
 
 
Close your eyes Yakky, you don't wanna see this.
 
 
George Hussein Onyango Obama
 
George Hussein Onyango Obama, Senator Barack Obama's long lost brother was tracked down living in a hut on the outskirts of Nairobi Photo: Guy Calaf, Vanity Fair, Italy
 
 


17 posted on 09/05/2008 6:06:04 PM PDT by Radix (Think it is bad now? Wait until you have to press "2" for English!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Ok, you got me on The Salvation Army. They do great work. I actually do give to them on a regular basis... cash and non cash donations.

But United Way and most of the other large charities are worthless.

Regardless I know enough folks personally that need my help to bother giving much to charities.

As for the article... we really don't have a good gauge on what Obama 'really' gives out. Like me, he may be giving to people that aren't tax deductible orgs. Or not, but I still don't want to go down the road of targeting our opponents with such stuff when we are up in arms about spurious charges against our candidates. Credibility...
18 posted on 09/05/2008 6:08:56 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: Blood of Tyrants

It would make a great ad (and maybe we will do it if we have the time): Obama doesn’t even throw his brother a couple of bucks, and the McCain’s adopt a third world girl with a cleft palette and bring her to America. Kind of puts a big dent in the Jesus comparisons, huh?


19 posted on 09/05/2008 6:18:15 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Blood of Tyrants

How did his income jump 700%? Whose paying him? Did he ever donate to the hurricane victims? Or the DNC?


20 posted on 09/05/2008 6:22:13 PM PDT by RC2
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