(I would post the picture, but AP doesn't allow it, you'll have to click the link. Sorry).
Interesting...
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
Hmmmm. I wonder which one I think can pull us out of this recession? Let's see...which one has managed his money best and MADE money in the process? Which one has actually run a business?
Or we can just John Wayne it and hope for a miracle.
Now I'm really surprised that it was left out given that it paints Obama in such a good light, especially compared to what his contributions were to charity before he ran for a national office.
The Obamas’ returns are striking on a number of levels. They show that the couple made very few charitable contributions, sometimes less than 1 percent of taxable income, until Mr. Obama began his run for the White House.
In 2004, before Mr. Obama entered the Senate, he and his wife gave $2,500 to charity, 1.2 percent of the taxable income. The next year, the donations jumped, to $77,315, or nearly 5 percent of the taxable income.
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The 2006 return also show a charitable deduction for a $13,000 donation to the Congressional Black Caucus. It is illegal to deduct political contributions as charitable contributions. The campaign said Mr. Obama had filed an amended return to eliminate that item as a deduction.
I'm pleased to see that along with their increased income, and increased public exposure, that the first couple has also increased their support for charity. That's precisely the way it is supposed to work. If we had more who contributed like Obama and Romney than Gingrich, Biden and evidently Santorum our union would be a much better and stronger with far less of a need for the government to levy and collect taxes for charitable purposes.
And all this time I thought that businesses and business people worked so they could pay taxes and be an employment agency. Are you telling me that's not why they do all that schooling, take all those risks and work their asses off?
