The Barack the not-so-giving and the thoughtless.

By Russell S. Kim

4/1/2009

 

Not everybody is a giver. So, those who can't give sometimes can consult on others what he or she would give as a gift. That is why we have friends and family. Apparently, the Harvard graduate President Obama does not have anyone who can tell him or whom he can consult about gift giving. Maybe his teleprompter does have the programming for a gift giving function yet. I think we need a legislation called The America Gift Giving Assistant Act of 2009! Undoubtedly, this will have billions of dollars in porkulous spending from the both the Democratic and Republican party members.

The latest News from UK Telegraph has the article titled Barack Obama's gift for the Queen: an iPod, your Majesty. Unfortunately, she already had one. Maybe, somebody didn't tell him that she is the Queen and the iPod existed way before he was the senator or the President. [7] Why didn't the President Obama just give her a printer, an usb thumb drive, or … a stapler, at least it would have been easy… This is after he gave the UK Prime Minister unplayable and incorrect region-coded 25 DVDs while the UK Prime minister gave him and his family special gifts. [6]

• Pen holder from the oak timber of HMS Gannet, a Navy vessel that served on anti-slavery missions off Africa.
  
• A framed commissioning paper for the HMS Resolute, a Royal Navy shipt that came to symbolize British-American goodwill when it was rescued by the U.S. from icebergs and given to Queen Victoria. It is the sister ship of the HMS Gannet.
  
• A first edition of Martin Gilbert's seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill, whose World War II partnership with President Franklin Roosevelt symbolized the U.S.-Anglo alliance.
  
• An outfit from Topshop, a British chain of clothing stores, and selected six children's books by British authors which have yet to be published in the U.S. to two of The President's children.
  

  
   

This isn't just forgetting things or a case of someone who just does not know how to give gifts. This is the behavior of someone who is very thoughtless and who rarely gives things to anyone. We know people like this in our lives. They take things from others but rarely give. They accuse others of being selfish and greedy while advocating and pressing for the coercive wealth transfer.

 

From the year 2000 to 2004, the President Obama gave charitable donation at the rate of 0.88% of his income. This rate would have been lower if he didn't have sense to raise charitable donation after he was seated for the US senate seat. He increased his giving rate to 4.7% and 6.1% rate for 2005 and 2006. [1]

 

With the the Vice President Biden, this charitable giving rate gets worse. From 1998 to 2007, the Vice President Biden gave approximately $3,700 to charities. His wife and his annual income was around $3,200,000 during that time. This is 0.0116%. [2]

 

It is always the least of the givers who tell others how much to give. It is always the least generous, least "liberal," least charitable, and least loving of humanity who preaches others do something they do not practice. And those who are least charitable shouldn't label themselves as a liberal, since there is nothing liberal about them. [10] And what's alarming about all these characters is that they are all wealthy while they claim they care about the poor. This is well documented by the Author Brooks's book Who Really Cares. [9]

    

Jesus said, But there is a second to set alongside it: Love others as well as you love yourself in book of Matthew 22:39, The Message. [11] People express this Christian call by donating their money and/or time. An income is a product of individual's labor and time. The idea that someone who doesn't believe in this ideal tells others how much people should give is dubious. If an individual does not have money to give, then the one can volunteer time. Nonetheless, those who does not voluntarily give their own properties use the government's insidious coercive power to take other citizens' properties in order to transfer to their selected group is even more incredulous. The very thing which they have no commitments on or convictions for, they force everybody to follow those very commitments which they are not willing to have or to keep. This is what the Presidency of Obama represents for me.

 

There is nothing liberal about the President Obama. He is creating a bigger government, a kingdom where King's minister takes others' properties and do whatever they please to do with these money while they pay the least for these very actions. The king divides products of citizen's labor in order to pass out the officially confiscated properties to his selected deserving group based on king's arbitrary standardless standards. Why is it that most of the President Obama's major political appointees have had tax problems? I can't remember anything of this sort from the past Presidents. The very thing they actually believe, the bigger government and the importance of taxes, they all fail to do. Even the IRS chief (the chief tax collector, the secretary of treasury) is a tax cheat. [3] He is an account after all. How can an accountant not know how to calculate his own taxes? Then on Jaunary 21, 2009, he blamed the problem on his uses of the "Turbo Tax" for his unpaid taxes. [4] How does the Vice President Joe Biden feel about a tax cheater whom they hired as IRS chief? Apparenly, Timothy Geithner is not patrioitic. [5]

 

By the way, don't the President and the Vice President go to churches? One of them go to a very wrong church. There are many ways to wish for God to damn America. Having a thoughtless President of the country is one of the ways.

 

 

Sources

 

President Obama's Tax Record: http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/tvnews/nightly%20news/_tab%20boxes/obama_tax_return.pdf [1]

 

The Vice President Biden's Tax Record: http://answercenter.barackobama.com/cgi-bin/barackobama.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=224&p_created=1220635525&p_sid=O73-WGdj&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MiwyJnBfcHJvZHM9JnBfY2F0cz [2]

 

Tax problem with Timothy Geithner

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123187503629378119.html [3]

 

Timothy Geithner Blames Turbo Tax: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/01/21/1754950.aspx [4]

 

Paying tax is patriotic: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26771716/ [5]

 

The President Obama and the Prime Minister Brown Gift exchange: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/06/obamas-blockbuster-gift-brown-dvds/ [6]

 

Barack Obama's gift for the Queen: an iPod, your Majesty http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/04/01/barack_obamas_gift_for_the_queen_an_ipod_your_majesty [7]

 

Who Gives and Who Doesn't?

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2682730 [8]

 

Who Really Cares: http://www.amazon.com/Who-Really-Cares-Compasionate-Conservatism/dp/0465008216 [9]

 

Religious Faith and Charitable Giving

http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3447051.html [10]

 

Matthew 22:37

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2022:37&version=65 [11]

 

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