Start the Bitch Slapping. Kudos to Obama

[Kyle Ricky]

I know I will get bitch slap city for this, but Obama did something I like. He gave 20% of his last years income to charity. The Charity he gave the most to was the Fisher House. He made around 800,000.00+ last year, so the would equal a little over 160,000.00 to charity. So with that I say Kudos.

Joe Biden on the other hand gave 1.5%. What a ****in cheap bastard.

Mitt Romney gave 7 million to charity last year.

[thundley4]

Is it really charitable giving when he does because of political pressure?

[NHSparky]

And how much in the years before that?

Or did he, like the Clintons, try to deduct donated underwear too?

There's doing it for the sake of helping others, and then there's doing it to say, "Look at what I'm doing, I'm such an attention whore!"

[Freeper]

I know I will get bitch slap city for this, but Obama did something I like. He gave 20% of his last years income to charity. The Charity he gave the most to was the Fisher House. He made around 800,000.00+ last year, so the would equal a little over 160,000.00 to charity. So with that I say Kudos.

Joe Biden on the other hand gave 1.5%. What a ****in cheap bastard.

Mitt Romney gave 7 million to charity last year.

If he writes a check to the treasury with the money he doesn`t need then I may be impressed.

[Ballygrl]

It's an election year!

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/01/romney-gave-15-to-charity-obama-gave-1-to-charity/

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle gave $10,772 of the $1.2 million they earned from 2000 through 2004 to charities, or less than 1 percent, according to tax returns for those years released today by his campaign.

The Obamas increased the amount they gave to charity when their income rose in 2005 and 2006 after the Illinois senator published a bestselling book. The $137,622 they gave over those two years amounted to more than 5 percent of their $2.6 million income.

Tax year Taxable income Charitable donations Donations as % of income
2010 $21.7 million $2.98 million 13.73%
2011 (est) $20.9 million $4 million 19.14%

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/opinion/21kristof.html

Bleeding Heart Tightwads

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Arthur Brooks, the author of a book on donors to charity, “Who Really Cares,” cites data that households headed by conservatives give 30 percent more to charity than households headed by liberals. A study by Google found an even greater disproportion: average annual contributions reported by conservatives were almost double those of liberals.

Other research has reached similar conclusions. The “generosity index” from the Catalogue for Philanthropy typically finds that red states are the most likely to give to nonprofits, while Northeastern states are least likely to do so.

The upshot is that Democrats, who speak passionately about the hungry and homeless, personally fork over less money to charity than Republicans — the ones who try to cut health insurance for children.

“When I started doing research on charity,” Mr. Brooks wrote, “I expected to find that political liberals — who, I believed, genuinely cared more about others than conservatives did — would turn out to be the most privately charitable people. So when my early findings led me to the opposite conclusion, I assumed I had made some sort of technical error. I re-ran analyses. I got new data. Nothing worked. In the end, I had no option but to change my views.”

[obumazombie]

Kudos to owebuma for discovering algae. I don't even know if the stuff is real since he doesn't talk about it much any more.