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]

 

About the author:

 

Russell Kim

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The Content deals with the idea of giving and why people who are not givers shouldn't force others to give up properties by government's coercive edicts.

 

Effigies burning

source: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1038/why-does-the-ku-klux-klan-burn-crosses

My response to one of the commenter at Business Week

This just how people are.

Business Week's Commenter named "LA Guy".

You are making assumptions based on what?  Do you have a data to show that shows Hyundai cars are piling up at the ship yards?  

According to Automotive News, Hyundai has 79 day supplies.  In comparison, GM has 161, Chrysler has 151, Honda has 151, and Toyota has 91 days of inventory. [1]   

You state that "Hyundai dealerships were closing all over before this recession."  Can you name three dealerships that were closed before the recession?  If they were closed down, closings were due to other reasons.   The Hyundai sales' figure hasn't declined in relative to its past.  Thus, in order for some dealerships to go out of business is if their sales number were significantly lower than the past to the point where the stopping the operation was more beneficial than incurring loss within some time period. [4,5] In fact, this very article states that the figure -4.8% is comparison to the all-time-high figure of last year.

Also, if you were wondering if Hyundai is using the rental fleet number into their sales figure, why don't you find out?  You have a doubts whether people are buying Hyundai cars?  If you had any curiosity, you would have known that Hyundai sold more Genesis (1,626) than Acura sold its RL, 161. [2,3] I can stipulate that People are buying Hyundai through this fact alone instead of your assumption that they are renting these cars.  

So many people know so many things that aren't so.  People just dream up things as if 1 + 1 = 5.  The statement made by "LA Guy" isn't just a simple and naive misunderstanding or some other factors, but it is close to being an illiterate or delusional.

[1: automotive news: March 2009, http://www.autonews.com/article/20090302/ANA03/903020365/1178 ]

[2: Hyundai April 2009 Sales number,

http://www.hyundainews.com/Corporate_News/Sales_Releases/04_01_2009_3052.asp ]

[3. Acura April 2009 Sales number, http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2009/04/01/455476.html ]

[4. McConnell-Brue's Principles of Microeconomics, 0072875615  Page 178. "Shut Down Case" ]

[5. "Economics, European Edition." "Short Term Production Decision" 0716799561 p.223]

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2009/04/hyundai_scores.html?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_global+business

ideas

- Effigies.  who burns effigies and the history of effigies

- consciensus.  in what condition is this created and why?  what are the consequences of the decisions based on consensus 

April Car Sales

Car Sales Table


Car Sales Chart

My Reflection on the Motown Photo.

This picture looks lot like the communist Russia, a big fancy building surrounded by not so fancy buildings. You see, many American corporations are largely owned by the government, a collection of collectivists, meaning that large part of their work goes directly to the government payment of any levels.

Here is the breakdown: [1]

- 35% Corporate Tax

- 7.5 % Social Security Tax

- 1.4 % Medicare Tax

- x % of government regulation compliance cost

- x % of accounting and tax adjustment cost (2001, US corporations spent $550 billion for the cost associated with paying for calculating taxes)

- x % of state and local taxes.

Then, you add the Union contracts for the US automakers’ on their costly cakes.

New flash: If you are forced to make payments to some entities, and those entities can you put you jail with their sanctioned police force, they own you.

With all the costs that US automakers have to bare to ease its appeasement groups and the government of all levels, the government essentially owns large product of US automakers' labor. You see how fancy the building looks. This is largely built by the privately owned and publicly accountable american corporation. It is the sign of vitality and energy.

What other buildings are just as fancy?

Answer: Hospitals, state universities, and government buildings

Visit one of your local universities that are built within last 10 years. Some of them have marble floors and have plasma screens right in front of their building to announce some arbitrary things for no reasons. I these self-labeled “educated” people are not going green after all. The florescent light bulbs can cause that sometimes, their medical doctors should into that.

In Houston, one can go through the "medical center” to see such glorious examples. All these supposedly "non-profits" hospitals have fancy buildings. The medical center also has this PETRONAS Twin Tower looking like building. Many companies I have worked for do not have fancy buildings like these I-hate-money types. I think every time the medical center ejaculates new fancy building directly into our sights, my company replaces its carpeting, I guess stains accumulate over times and they don’t' go away. You can dry clean carpets either.

The former Democratic Presidential hopeful John Edward was right about the two Americas. One America is where you have collectivists, quasi-collectivists, and those moderates who are easily sway by the popular sentiment with their very flexible versatility of conviction has set up this ever growing the machine called the government with ever growing urbanization where they build their transportation system called light rails and buses. They also conveniently build large parks with expensive art works. In addition, they either partially or wholly benefits from the all levels of government entity that is beyond the police, fire, and emergency needs. However, there are people who support this collectivist movement in order to nurture their emotional states. They equate that government is helping people. However, they do not know any proof of such helping unless they equate the helping as a how money they can make government to spend on their behalf, while they complain about how government does not do this or that all the time incessantly. As of 2008, government spending is at $3 trillion. If $3 trillion is not enough for them, more money will not satisfy these never greedy, ever giving, never selfish, and thoughtful folks. It is projected that for the year 2009, the US government is going to outlay $12 trillion for various form of government programs.

Then there is another America, they live their live mostly quietly pursuing their own self-interests to make best of themselves. They have obligations and commitments to follow. They go to churches, synagogues, and temples to observe their beliefs. They rarely demonstrate or complain. Most of the time, they are not politically involved due to their busy life. What this America does not know is that the other collectivists America is confiscating their time in order to fulfill collectivists’ dreams.

Soon, all America might resemble the Motown picture. I hope not. In the age of Hope and Change, I am not so hopeful.

Sources:

Corporate tax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax_in_the_United_States [1]

MoTown Picture:

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/motown-387x350.jpg

Houston Medical Center Picture:

http://www.north-houston.com/developers/images/HoustonFull-Aerial-MedicalCenter.jpg

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

By Russell Kim
4/1/2009

Not everybody is a giver. So, those who can’t give sometimes can consult others what he or she would give as a gift. That’s 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! Undoutably, 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. Why didn’t the President Obama just give her a printer, a 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.
• 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.

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%.

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 $320,000 a year. This is 0.0116%.

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. 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, ISBN-10: 0465008216

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 respresents for me.

There is nothing liberal about the President Obama. He is creating a bigger government, aka 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 up products of citizen’s labor in order to pass out the officially confiscated properties to his selected standardless standard deserving group. 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. 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 “Turbo Tax” for his unpaid taxes. How does the Vice President Joe Biden feel about a tax cheater whom they hired as IRS chief? Apparenly, Timothy Geithner is not patrioitic.

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.

[This article has been rejected by the editor of the American Thinker. I just have to try it harder. My article wasn't competitive enough. ]