“Obama calls increasing taxes and giving them to the needy a matter of “neighborliness.” His running mate, Joe Biden, calls it a matter of “patriotism.”
Yet when it comes to charitable giving, neither Obama (until recently) nor Biden feels sufficiently neighborly or patriotic to donate as much as the average American household: 2% of their adjusted gross income.
Liberal families earn about 6% more than conservative families, yet conservative households donate about 30% more to charity than do liberal households. And conservatives give more than just to their own churches and other houses of worship. Conservatives, especially religious conservatives, give far more money and donate more of their time to nonreligious charitable causes than do liberals — especially secular liberals.
In 2007, President Bush and his wife had an adjusted gross income of $923,807. They paid $221,635 in taxes and donated $165,660 — 18% of their income — to charity. Vice President and Mrs. Cheney, in 2007, had a taxable income of $3.04 million. They paid $602,651 in taxes and donated $166,547 — 5.5% of their income — to charity.
Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, earned between $200,000 and $300,000 a year between 2000 and 2004, and they donated less than 1% to charity. When their income soared to $4.2 million in 2007, their charitable contributions went up to 5%.
Joe and Jill Biden, by contrast, made $319,853 and gave $995 to charity in 2007, or 0.3% of their income. And that was during the year Biden was running for president. Over the past 10 years, the Bidens earned $2,450,042 and gave $3,690 to charity — or 0.1% of their income.
So let’s sum up. The “compassionate” liberals — at least based on charitable giving — show less compassion than “hardhearted” conservatives. The rich pay more in income taxes than people think. Voters, clueless about the facts, want the rich to pay still more.”
Dennisranch 
Good post! They are very generous though when they are using OUR money
On another note…I tried to click on Half baked Sourdough and it says that the blog has been removed!
threecollie! the link for Halfbaked Sourdough is at http://www.mukluk.wordpress.com try this one. Sorry the one you tried to use didn’t work. The OLD site was on Blogspot, but I moved to WordPress about 3 months ago.
Old Sourdough
Sorry 3 collies and Liz! I fixed it on here.
Don’t have time to read ur thingy there, since I’m at work, but I thought I would tell ya how much God LOVES me and it was proven yesterday.. Since June as u know our window has been broken not havein enough money to fix it, we were gettin down to wire before the snow fell or snizzle as it seems to always come first… Well last week we had an appointment to fix this.. Well the guy had to cancel on us beings how he didn’t have the damn window in…. so we said alright.. I talked to Tate and asked when he wanted to do it.. He said “Well see if we can get it in on Thursday and I’ll just leave work early”.. So alright fine I did that.. Now We as I was previously sayin.. Have been really lucky or BLESSED as I like to think of it…. Cuz the weather hasn’t been crappy at all… We have had a few rain storms here and there but none of that got into the pick up.. THANK GOD got that!!!! Anyway Thursday it was a nice day good enough anyway… One of those not to cold not to warm days… Good enough to let Gabe go out n play.. Anyway.. gettin away from the point.. I decided on Friday when I got up and the weather wasn’t as nice as it was the day before… I told Tate.. “I know 2 things, A. I feel like shit, and B. I’m not gunna freeze my ass off all the way to work today”… LOL… I got to work and told all of my co-workers that I knew for sure now that God loves me… when they asked me why I say that…. I tell em cuz he waited until TODAY!!! the DAY after we get our window replaced for it to be colder then a witches (in Alisha’s words) putty poo out there….. LOL… Thank God and MOST of all THANK YOU DAD!!!! It sure is nice to know that I have 5 guys who love me… bacing that on the fact that God is in fact a man and not a woman….lol… THANKS Again Dad…..
Sorry for the long Story… Guess I should of called ya.. But its hard to catch ya these day’s…. anyway LOVE U BUNCHES Dad!!!! Back to work for me.. Before they fire my ass for typin on here….lol….. L8R 🙂 😀
Glad it all worked out for you, kid! 🙂