The Obama’s Don’t Do Charity

Michelle, you and your husband want everyone to add to their own personal deficit and give to the charity of your choosing, The Red Cross.  In your bad acting in this video, you say, “But we can all do something. We can help the American Red Cross as it delivers the food, water and medicine that can save lives….” I understand this to mean that you are giving and I should join you.  What a shock to find out that you did not give.  This ad was recorded on January 16.

On that same day, January 16, President Obama asked former Presidents Bush and Clinton to form the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund and to spear head the relief funding for Haiti.

To my complete shock, President Obama did not take advantage of the moment to hand an envelope to the Presidents with the Obama donation to begin the fund.  Hell, they could have done the complete stunt with another envelope with the girls allowance in it.  But, no.  NO donations from the Obamas.

It wasn’t until January 20 that the Obama’s finally decided to donate to a cause that they had been ordering us to donate to.

“The President and First Lady have been inspired by the way that millions of Americans have responded with tremendous generosity to the Haiti crisis – even in these tough economic times,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest says, “So, today, they sent their own check for $15,000 to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund to support the ongoing relief efforts in that country.”

This is incomprehensible that these extremely wealthy people could beg, order and guilt the American public into donating, but were not in the least bit interested in donating themselves.  Wouldn’t it be nice if the American public inspired the Obama’s more often, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

In the chart above, you can see their income and their charitable giving.  In 2008, the campaign year, the Obama’s had an adjusted gross income of $2,656,902.  The Obamas paid $855,323 in federal income tax. And they donated $172,050 – or about 6.5% of their adjusted gross income.

No one will ever accuse the Obama’s of being generous.  If they do make that error, the facts and figures will never bear it out.

I know that Barack Obama attended Punahou School for eight years on scholarship.  I know that he has never given to Punahou to help fund the scholarship program that put him where he is today.  I’ve never seen a line item of a donation to Occidental College, Columbia University or Harvard University — and he received fine scholarships there, too.  I guess he thinks others owe it to him and he doesn’t owe back.

The only generosity that President Obama has is with our tax dollars – those he is willing to throw in the air.  But, he own, he’s pretty greedy with.

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