What the heck? That money comes from the taxpayers anyway.
After it’s paid to him, it becomes his salary to do with as he pleases. I think $15,000 is cheap of him but it is his money.
My dad is a pastor. I grew up hearing things like “Oh that new dress THE CHURCH bought you is so pretty”. The church didn’t buy it for me. They paid my dad his salary which he earned ten times over and my dad bought the dress.
My husband is a pastor now and I am still dealing with this. I felt guilty and embarassed when we bought a new van (well new to us) this summer. It it a 2001 with 80,000 miles on it. No one in our church has ever made me feel that way but old habits die hard.
Yes the taxpayers pay his salary but that doesn’t mean the donation was FROM the taxpayers. I have many many reasons to dislike this man but that isn’t one of them.
Rant off. :)
“What the heck? That money comes from the taxpayers anyway.”
You can bet it is TART $. He can’t give his own brother $20, why would we believe he gave this amount?
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Hey, please take it easy on President Obama concerning his $15,000 donation to the Haiti terrible catastrophe.
Remember, President Obama really doesn't have much money to donate to charity for this reason:
As you probably know, President Obama has to save his pennies in order to pay his lawyers who are defending him against those "birthers" who are fighting in court to have President Obama release his 1961 Hawaii long form birth certificate.
At last count, Obama or the Democratic Party has paid over $1 million dollars, and counting, to lawyers to keep the public from looking at Obama's Hawaii long form birth certificate, a birth certificate that would cost Obama about $10 to get a copy from Hawaii.
So please, be nice to Obama and be thankful that Obama was able to come up with $15,000 of his hard-earned money to donate to the Haiti fund, $15,000 that Obama could have used to pay off $1 million fees to his lawyers who are fighting the "birthers" in court case after court case.
$15,000? What a putz. I’d bet that I have “given” a lot more than that in foreign aid to haiti over the years. Besides, 15 grand is less than he spends on Wednesday party night. Wagu beef is about $1,000 per ounce. Watch for his media to do stories on where exactly his contribution went.