https://www.nrahq.org/givejoinhelp/giving/general.asp

He tried, but at his age sometimes even Viagra doesn’t help.

Blessings ALL!!

So mote it be!!

This is great!

Plans to donate to Planned Parenthood in the name of Sarah Palin.

Planned parenthood will send a thank you card for every person who donates to Palin.
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As long as it’s not initiated by Planned Parenthood.

If it is initiated or promoted by Planned Parenthood, they could lose a large portion of their budget supplied through government contracts and their tax status.

Everyday you remind of a little child, always saying “gimme,gimme and I want I want”

Obama Charitable Giving:

2006 $60,000 = 6%
2005 $77,000 = 4.5%
2004 $2,500 = 1%
2003 $3,400 = 1.5%
2002 $1,050 = 0.5%
2001 $1,470 = 0.5%
2000 $2,350 = 1%
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Amway…. that looks like a string of numbers… You had best show a Link, or I call BS… look at your figures for 2005, and 2006….

2006, you claim he GAVE 6% $60,000

And yet, in 2005, you claim he GAVE 4.5% at $77,000???

Gotta be a screw up somewhere —-

Get a link, OR, I call it BS… more Obama SMEAR crap from the unscrupulous…

Contrary to AW’s seeming assertion, Bill Clinton did not tax us to death (apparently AW has forgotten that 6 of those years Clinton was facing against a hostile GOP Congress). Clinton simply balanced the budget, yes, by raising taxes, but also controlling spending.

Those who pretend (or perhaps ignorantly believe) that this is a conservative or Republican virtue simply haven’t looked at the figures. Get a calculator go over the receipts/outlays during the Reagan years–compute percentages of the total. You’ll find nearly every discretionary item of any note reduced–I’ll give Reagan credit for that. Health and Human Services went from 36 percent of the budget to a mere 15 percent (and that’s not just “welfare”–not even close–but our idiot righties will certainly label it as such).

Defense spending was hard to determine and part of it was in the “black” budget (secret spending! can you believe that crap?). The Defense department alone increased from about 24 to about 29 percent of the whole.

What’s the point? Sure, maybe domestic spending wasn’t slashed as vigorously as some would like. But the tax cuts were put in effect without any means of paying for them . Every Reagan budget had a built-in deficit. The plan, obviously, was to deliberately create huge deficits–and then go hog wild on slashing the portions that didn’t feed the military-industrial complex.

Someone at this point will mention Social Security. Well, that was still the “third rail”–there were still too many New Deal Democrats alive who would know better. As it was always intended as a trust fund (you pay in, the government pays you back), it was taken off-budget.

The truth, of course, is that the plans to privatize under Bush were nothing more than legalized theft. And, as KFG has pointed out, look at great Social Security would be doing now if it was allowed to brave the open markets.

So did anyone try to balance the budget? Impossible under Reagan: undoing or modifying any portion of Kemp-Roth was verboten, period. They even tried a mindless gimmick, the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Act, which produced automatic across-the-board cuts in all departments if balanced budget was not reached.

You know what? When the bluff was called, they still couldn’t balance the budget–not with Reagan’s priorities dominating. But the automatic cuts were also evaded, because it turned out that automatic cuts would cripple essential function in, well, pretty much ever corner of government. A breathtakingly dumb idea.

When the predictable carnage of Reagan’s 3-trillion-dollars party was left on George W. Bush’s doorstep, Mr. Read-My-Lips raised taxes. But only after a multi-billion dollar S&L bailout and two stock market crashes. The collapse of the Soviet Union–the grand enemy–also caught Poppy off guard.

We’ve been down this road before, and not just in the 1980s. Not even just in the 1920s.

You see, however much some will whine about progressive taxation, the fact is that government has to be funded and, once those priorties are decided, adults pay for the friggin’ meal they ordered. Yeah, it’s “unfair” that a rich person pays a higher percentage. I have one vote and Charlie Keating, if he’s out of prison, has one vote. As it should be.

When I can get five senators–or, hell, even my own Congressperson–to meet with me in private, we’ll talk about the terrible unfairness of the progressive tax. It’s not redistribution. It’s asking a proper share of burden from those who receive the greatest benefits from government (even though they like to deny that government does anything for them!).

P.S. Did someone mention a Depression? Look up the taxation figures under FDR.

Plans to donate to Planned Parenthood in the name of Sarah Palin.

Planned parenthood will send a thank you card for every person who donates to Palin.

The ONLY increase in the debt during the Clinton years was due to interest accrual on the Reagan-Bush debt.

“Good luck trying that during a depression”

In 1993 Clinton did that during the Bush recession – the reduction in long-term interest rates that followed helped get us out of that recession. Are you acknowledging that Bush 2 is doing Daddy one better by plunging America into a DEPRESSION?

In a letter to the FDLE obtained by The Associated Press, House Deputy General Counsel Kerry Kircher wrote that because the data “may contain legislative information that is constitutionally privileged … and because Mr. Foley has not waived that privilege … we cannot simply give you access.”

The Florida agency had been working with the FBI and Foley’s attorneys to gain access to information on the computers. Foley’s attorneys have declined to comment throughout the investigation.

President Bush has used the same language many times but his press secretary would not repeat the line Wednesday in the face of historic financial turbulence.

If you’ve got that kind of money, create good jobs and pay your employees part of that wealth for it is on their backs that you earn your money.

And yeah, pay your share of taxes, quit complaining about it and stop asking for corporate welfare.

Extremely nervous. I think this a true crisis with far-reaching implications 46%
Somewhat nervous. Times may be pretty tough for a while but we’ll recover. 35%
Not very nervous. People and the media are overreacting. 17%
I’m not sure/No opinion 2%

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http://www.academycomputerservice.com/economics/deficit.jpg

Yeah that’s pretty much it.

Oh except for the “hard earned money” part.

I’ve never known or met a person that had a lot of money that was not a jerk.