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[Guest]

not to start a pissfight, but Bankers were some of the biggest contributors to obama.

I don't see any political campaign as a charity. Few bankers (or any corps) give money to a political campaign without the "concept" of getting "something" back later on.

With conservatives it is all about... always about... the money. That's how I see it. Of course, YMMV.

Al3

 

[maksim]

I don't see any political campaign as a charity. Few bankers (or any corps) give money to a political campaign without the "concept" of getting "something" back later on.

With conservatives it is all about... always about... the money. That's how I see it. Of course, YMMV.

Al3

We will have to agree to disagree. =)

 

[WinoBlues]

We will have to agree to disagree. =)

 

[arnguy]

John, if your kid has any Kit Kats left over please ship them to post haste! I love that candy----it is like an addiction.
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Maksim, you run a forum on firearms and you are in New Jersey? I thought that would be illegal in the Garden State since your state has some of the strictest gun laws.

 

[ergammill]

Al- Your post always seem to lack any facts

"Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism." The surprise is that liberals are markedly less charitable than conservatives

If many conservatives are liberals who have been mugged by reality, Brooks, a registered independent, is, as a reviewer of his book said, a social scientist who has been mugged by data. They include these findings:

-- Although liberal families' incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average liberal-headed household ($1,600 per year vs. $1,227).
-- Conservatives also donate more time and give more blood.
-- Residents of the states that voted for John Kerry in 2004 gave smaller percentages of their incomes to charity than did residents of states that voted for George Bush.
-- Bush carried 24 of the 25 states where charitable giving was above average.
-- In the 10 reddest states, in which Bush got more than 60 percent majorities, the average percentage of personal income donated to charity was 3.5. Residents of the bluest states, which gave Bush less than 40 percent, donated just 1.9 percent.
-- People who reject the idea that "government has a responsibility to reduce income inequality" give an average of four times more than people who accept that proposition.
Brooks demonstrates a correlation between charitable behavior and "the values that lie beneath" liberal and conservative labels. Two influences on charitable behavior are religion and attitudes about the proper role of government.

While conservatives tend to regard giving as a personal rather than governmental responsibility, some liberals consider private charity a retrograde phenomenon -- a poor palliative for an inadequate welfare state, and a distraction from achieving adequacy by force, by increasing taxes.

Biden's Average Annual Charitable-Gift Total: $369 That figure is 0.3 percent of the couple’s claimed income of nearly $320,000.

---Omama and his wife, about 5.7 percent of the couple’s reported income.
-- McCain the Republican Presidential nominee, in 2007 donated 26 percent of his total income, to charity.

 

[somarco]

Biden's wife is a doc. Surely that $320k is taxable, not gross income. As a Senator last year he would have earned $165k.

Had he stayed in the Senate, he would be participating in the pay raise Congress voted for themselves, and I am sure everyone would agree they earned it. Senate pay in 2009 is $174k, a 6% pay raise which is more than Social Security recipients got as well as most workers.

Instead of $174, Joe will earn $227k and get's a free house to live in.

 

[ergammill]

Jill Biden is not a doctor, She is currently an English Professor, teaching at Delaware Technical Community College. Professionally, she has been a reading specialist and high school English teacher.

In his past campaigns he has talked about the fact the he is the poorest member of the senate and rides the amtrack train home everynight, rather than rent a place in DC or Maryland

 

[Newby]

Now AL#3 is trying to convince us that Liberal Dems are more charitable givers than Republicans? Ha! Give me a break!

Al, you will NEVER convince anyone of that. The Democratic base has their hand OUT for a hand out. They are NOT charitable givers of their time, talent OR wealth.

There are givers of ALL faiths, political groups, genders and everything else but you will never convince ANYONE that Democrates as a group give more OF THEIR OWN MONEY to others UNLESS there is a TV crew recording it.

 

[GreenSky]

Doesn't Acorn volunteer their time and money? They are certainly democrats.

Rick

 

[DHK]

I'm more of a "Cheez-It" fan...

"Get your own box!"