Obama: Brother George Scapes By on Dollar a Day

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Fighting Poverty Best If OPM* is Involved

Cisco Cotto at Townhall.com has a succinct piece on Barack Obama, Obama's brother, George and the hypocrisy of the presumptive Dem standard-bearer when it comes to helping the poor of the world.
*- other people's money

Barack Obama’s brother George lives on less than a dollar a month? I realize the price of arugula is going up, but couldn’t our prospective “wealth re-distributor in-chief” throw his baby brother a couple of bucks? For the price of one of his Hyde Park lattes Obama could quadruple what his brother scrapes by on now.

Just think: Brother George could probably live like a Kenyan king for the money that brother Barack spent on presidential seal re-design fees.

During a campaign stop in Pittsburgh back in March, Obama plainly said he didn’t mind paying more to support the poor. He has said the same thing several times and at Rick Warren’s Saddleback forum he said any family making more than $250,000 is rich and the rich are going to pay more in an Obama administration. But if he feels so strongly that the “rich” (whatever your definition of that is) should offer aid to the poor why isn’t he supporting George?

The Global Poverty Act of 2007 (S.2433) which Obama sponsored in the Senate, isn't NEARLY as cheap--for the poor lunchbox-carrying saps paying the tab--as an Obama latte. According to American Thinker:

If passed, it will cost taxpayers $845,000,000,000 over the next 13 years, in addition to our current foreign aid expenditures.

As AT's Lee Cary points out, it will cost U.S. taxpayers the better part of a trillion dollars to funnel American tax dollars to places like--you got it--Kenya. All those American bucks to pay to help the world's poor; people like Brother George.

Maybe it's proverb time for the man who recently withdrew from the Trinity Church: charity begins at home.

The Obama camp may want to consider a new campaign slogan while they're at it: "Fighting My Brother's Poverty with Your Money".

Cisco puts the exclamation point on Obama hypocrisy with the following table:




Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "I'm not my brother's keeper".

Obama apparently means it.

by Mondoreb
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Democrat Dingell Wants a 50-cent Gas Tax Hike

Coming to a Gas Pump Near You?




Rep. John Dingell (D-oofus) has proposed a 50-cent tax on every gallon of gasoline to try to slow down American's gas consumption.

We don't know if a half-buck tax per gallon will cut back on American's gas consumption, but it will cut back on American's desire to vote Democrat come November.

The Michigan congressman's proposal comes as a reminder that most Democrat--and some Republican--members of Congress never met a tax they didn't like.

Some polls declare that a majority of Americans support policies that would reduce greenhouse gases--although with the record snow falls this past winter some Americans could've done with a few more greenhouse gases--when it comes to paying for those policies, there's a different story to be told.

Dingells' tax proposal will just make it harder for most Americans to make ends meet. If Dingell had paid attention in Econ 101, he would have learned that some products, for which there is no good substitutes, are known as inelastic.

That is, they don't respond to price increases like other products. Gasoline consumption is, for most people, an inelastic product. The majority of their gasoline consumption is for work and essential motoring.


A new poll, scheduled to be released on Thursday, shows 48 percent don't support paying even a penny more, 28 percent would pay up to 50 cents more, 10 percent would pay more than 50 cents and 8 percent would pay more than a dollar.

"I don't want to pay more, I don't think anyone wants to," said Karen Deacon, a motorist.

What do other motorists think of the idea of a 50-cent tax hike on gasoline?

Read the rest of "Democrat Dingell Wants 50-cent Tax Increase on Gasoline".

by Mondoreb
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* Michigan Congressman Wants 50-Cent Tax Hike on Every Gallon of Gas



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Red Planet Cartoons:Tax Cuts For Dummies

For the those who flunked Econ 101 (apparently most of the Democrats on the tax-writing committees in Congress) and those who want an informative look at tax cuts and how they spur economic growth, Red Planet Cartoons has an extremely instructive and completely painless lesson. The above cartoon is only the overview.

Go check it out. Don't be a tax cut dummy.




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Charley Rangel and Democrats: 10 More Reasons To Grasp Your Pocketbook Tight

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Just as American taxpayers relaxed the death-grip on their pocketbooks, along comes another chapter in the eternal Texas cage-match between hard-pressed U.S. workers and the Democrat Party tax writers.

One is about to light another stogie, embark on the morning's second pot of coffee and is look over the email, along comes an email that sums up recent Democrat tax proposals in one easy-to-read article. RidesAPaleHorse sent us a heads-up, along with the nifty comic cover above.

The story comes from The Green Eyeshade. And the sub-headings are capitalized for easy reading by knuckle-dragging Neo-Nazi conservative tax-cutters across the land.

After wiping the drool from the keyboard, more about this important Public Service Announcement from Green Eyeshade:

The Republican Staff on the Ways and Means Committee put this fact sheet together, I feel it is quite enlightening, and wanted to share it with you.

When Chairman Rangel introduced his long-awaited tax legislation yesterday morning, there were certain things he conveniently forgot to mention. Among the things the Democratic Majority doesn’t want you to know about the “Mother of All Tax Hikes”:

The Top 10 include 1. MARRIAGE PENALTY ON STEROIDS, 6. IF A TREE FALLS IN A FOREST, and 7. TAXING PHANTOM INCOME.

Charles Rangel and the Incredible Democrat Tax Machine are gearing up again for another go at the American taxpayers' wallets. What remains to be seen is if the Republicans in Congress have been sufficiently chastised by the 2006 election results to be able to take advantage of it.

by Mondoreb
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