Daniel_Cheung
04-18-2009, 11:55 AM
Obama Donates .3 Percent of 2008
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/04/obama_donates_3.html
President Obama and his wife gave $172,050 - about 6.5 percent of his gross income - to charities in 2008, ABC News' Jake Tapper and Karen Travers report. The Obamas gave $8,050 - or .3 percent of their gross income - to churches and faith-based charities, which represented nine of the 37 charities, according to his tax return....
Posted by: Stan at April 17, 2009
And this is any of our business why?
Posted by: alison at April 17, 2009
Alison is right. It's not our place to ask how Obama spends his money, or how he spends our money, or what his college grades were, or who his associates are, or what his political philosophy is. He's the President, he knows best. It's our duty as patriotic citizens to never, ever question Dear Leader, or attempt to shame or embarrass him.
Which this disclosure certainly does.
Posted by: bgates at April 17, 2009
Hey Allison, please lay off the Kool Aid. Bgates, I enjoyed the sarcasm. $172,050 is 6.5% of $2,646,923 - "man of the people" - sure. It just goes to show once again how people who attend liberal churches where the social gospel is preached and who constantly talk about social justice, caring for the poor, etc. consistently donate far less money to charities than evangelicals (and there are statistics that back that up). Yet it's the cheapskate, hypocritical liberals, like Obama, who are calling for higher taxes and more government social programs - even though local church-based charities have been overwhelmingly proven to be much more successful than government programs.
All this article proves is what a HYPOCRITE Obama is and how he doesn't put his own money where his "spread the wealth" and "being neighborly" mouth is - but he has no problem wasting the American taxpayers' hard-earned money. Wow. Kind of reminds me of Al Gore's nutty global warming rants against America's supposed damage to the environment when his mansion uses 20x the electricity of an average house and he's flying around the world on his private jet, while ripping on other Americans. Nice.
Posted by: Adam at April 17, 2009
You misunderstand me, Adam. Almost everything Obama does is our business. How much he gives to God is not. That is between him and God, nobody else. I'm on your side here. I agree with you about Gore and all that hypocrisy. Maybe my math is off, but it looks to me like after taxes he gave 10% to charity. I don't know about you, but nothing I give gets reported on my taxes. I think it's really unchristian for people to be so worked up about how much he gives to the church - especially because all we know is what he reported. Get worked up about abortion and stem cells and all of those other really awful things if you want to, but for crying out loud, get a life and let God be God.
Posted by: alison at April 17, 2009
I always feel sad re the judgemental and somewhat mean-spirited comments made about President Obama on this web site. I have been a follower of Jesus Christ since my teens, but increasingly I am downhearted about aspects of evangelical Christianity.....but not Jesus Christ. I believe that it is alright to have different applications of my faith from the more conservative and narrow applications expressed in this magazine and especially by a number of the responders. I walk by faith and so does everyone....let's look to the love and light of Christ and watch our words about fellow believers, including our fellow believer, Prssident Barack Obama....
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/04/obama_donates_3.html
President Obama and his wife gave $172,050 - about 6.5 percent of his gross income - to charities in 2008, ABC News' Jake Tapper and Karen Travers report. The Obamas gave $8,050 - or .3 percent of their gross income - to churches and faith-based charities, which represented nine of the 37 charities, according to his tax return....
Posted by: Stan at April 17, 2009
And this is any of our business why?
Posted by: alison at April 17, 2009
Alison is right. It's not our place to ask how Obama spends his money, or how he spends our money, or what his college grades were, or who his associates are, or what his political philosophy is. He's the President, he knows best. It's our duty as patriotic citizens to never, ever question Dear Leader, or attempt to shame or embarrass him.
Which this disclosure certainly does.
Posted by: bgates at April 17, 2009
Hey Allison, please lay off the Kool Aid. Bgates, I enjoyed the sarcasm. $172,050 is 6.5% of $2,646,923 - "man of the people" - sure. It just goes to show once again how people who attend liberal churches where the social gospel is preached and who constantly talk about social justice, caring for the poor, etc. consistently donate far less money to charities than evangelicals (and there are statistics that back that up). Yet it's the cheapskate, hypocritical liberals, like Obama, who are calling for higher taxes and more government social programs - even though local church-based charities have been overwhelmingly proven to be much more successful than government programs.
All this article proves is what a HYPOCRITE Obama is and how he doesn't put his own money where his "spread the wealth" and "being neighborly" mouth is - but he has no problem wasting the American taxpayers' hard-earned money. Wow. Kind of reminds me of Al Gore's nutty global warming rants against America's supposed damage to the environment when his mansion uses 20x the electricity of an average house and he's flying around the world on his private jet, while ripping on other Americans. Nice.
Posted by: Adam at April 17, 2009
You misunderstand me, Adam. Almost everything Obama does is our business. How much he gives to God is not. That is between him and God, nobody else. I'm on your side here. I agree with you about Gore and all that hypocrisy. Maybe my math is off, but it looks to me like after taxes he gave 10% to charity. I don't know about you, but nothing I give gets reported on my taxes. I think it's really unchristian for people to be so worked up about how much he gives to the church - especially because all we know is what he reported. Get worked up about abortion and stem cells and all of those other really awful things if you want to, but for crying out loud, get a life and let God be God.
Posted by: alison at April 17, 2009
I always feel sad re the judgemental and somewhat mean-spirited comments made about President Obama on this web site. I have been a follower of Jesus Christ since my teens, but increasingly I am downhearted about aspects of evangelical Christianity.....but not Jesus Christ. I believe that it is alright to have different applications of my faith from the more conservative and narrow applications expressed in this magazine and especially by a number of the responders. I walk by faith and so does everyone....let's look to the love and light of Christ and watch our words about fellow believers, including our fellow believer, Prssident Barack Obama....