Posted on 12/29/2010 3:19:37 PM PST by Syncro
LIBERALS GIVE 'TIL IT HURTS (YOU)Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
December 29, 2010Liberals 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 (BEGIN ITAL)Curragh(END ITAL)." (Cash tips to bartenders and cocktail waitresses are not considered charitable donations.)
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.Read the rest at AnnCoulter.Com
That zinger put a smile on my face and made by chuckle simultaneously.
me i meant. whoops.
In a single year, Schweizer reports, Rush Limbaugh gave $109,716 ...+... $52,898 ...+... $35,100 ...+... $40,951 ...
(Rush also once gave $50 to Maxine Waters after mistaking her for a homeless person.)
Ohh, that's gonna leave a a mark.
"...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.Wow. Just wow.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." - Ann Coulter
You can't beat that, buy that Broad a steak! Ann Rox!
Pray for the Tea Party Congress
Like Al Gore, who donated a miserly $353 to charity as vice president in 1997, John Kerry may be a serial cheapskate.
During the early 1990s, with no apparent presidential aspirations, Kerry contributed the following amounts: $0 in 1991; $820, 1992; $175, 1993; $2,039, 1994; and $0, 1995...
Kerry and his wife have a combined net worth between $664 million and $760 million
Liberals are very generous...with other people’s money. It’s actually a way of buying votes to keep them in their cushy jobs.
Ann, you are a national treasure.
Oh my, good wording Ann!!...a staggering $175
Yet, these are the same people who call us greedy when we resist letting them confiscate more of our money through higher taxes.
on the mark again. These tandem articles (with Dec 22) are dead-center target-hitters.
It’s amazing what absolute creeps the Kerry’s are.
Lawrence O'Donnell Attacks Ann Coulter for Saying Liberals Give Less to Charity Than Conservatives-- snip --
Lawrence O'Donnell on Tuesday made a federal case out of Ann Coulter's quite accurate claim that liberals give less to charity than conservatives.
"The Last Word" host might have raised this issue to draw attention to a charity he's supporting (video follows with partial transcript and commentary):
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL, HOST: Time for tonight’s Rewrite. It all started with a column by Bill O’Reilly which included a reference to Jesus Christ’s attitude toward charity. Then Comedy Central’s theologian-in-chief Stephen Colbert got involved.
O’Donnell then played a clip from last Thursday’s “Colbert Report” in which the host went after O’Reilly for his comments concerning Christ and charity. After the clip, O’Donnell continued:
O’DONNELL: Of course, there was no chance of Colbert going unanswered on the “O’Reilly Factor” where Bill turned for theological guidance to, who else, Ann Coulter.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ANN COULTER: No, the fundamental problem is liberals think sending a check to the IRS constitutes charity.That is not charity.
Christians understand that which is why when you say Americans are the most generous people on earth --
(CROSSTALK)
BILL O'REILLY: Yes.
COULTER: No conservatives are.
O'REILLY: Well, Americans in total.
(CROSSTALK)
COULTER: As has been demonstrated time and time again.
Liberals are the least charitable with their money.
Conservatives and especially Christians the most charitable and you know Nancy Pelosi considers it charitable giving --
(CROSSTALK)
O'REILLY: All right, let me just define what you're saying --
COULTER: -- to contribute to the San Francisco ballet whereas Christians are actually giving to poor people.
;)
Whay really annoys me about Obama is that he has an aunt, living on public assistance, in public housing in Massachussets, and they do nothing to help her out..and the MSM lets them skate on it...
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