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Barack Obama says he wants to “spread the wealth” of higher income Americans to those less fortunate. He is a strong proponent of the liberal ideology known as the Redistribution of wealth… as long as it’s your wealth he is redistributing! Taking from someone, by the power of government, to give to someone else is not charitable, it’s punitive and it is the heart of socialism. That is not the hallmark of a “giver”, that is the hallmark of a Marxist / Communist.

While Barack Obama is heralded as a modern day Robin Hood, taking from the rich and giving to the poor, he has held tightly to his own riches. While making around $350,000 per year ( “the rich” by his own definition) from 2000 - 2004, the Obama’s never gave more than one percent of their income to charity or those “less fortunate”. The most they gave one year was $3,500 (www.Huffingtonpost.com). That’s $100 to charity for every $10,000 he made. That is an embarrassment for someone as well off as Barack Obama, especially for someone whose image is that of guardian giver to the little guy.

In fairness, Barack Obama did increase his charitable donations as his Presidential aspirations began to come into view. In 2005, Senator Obama donated 4.7 percent of his income and in 2006, he gave 6.1 percent of his income to charities. According to www.usatoday.com , last year, after making more than $4.2 Million dollars (largely from book sales), Barack Obama and his wife gave a bit less (5.7%) of their income. Actually, Barack Obama has done very well under Bush’s economic policies, and “tax cuts for the rich”, I just wonder why he didn’t spread his own wealth around to those less fortunate?

We have learned recently that Barack Obama has a brother living in a hut in Kenya who makes twelve dollars a year. We also discovered he has an Aunt, whom he claims to have responsibility for (in his book “Dreams from My Father”), living in a slum in Boston Mass. Barack Obama has made millions over the last several years, and his closest relatives live in squalor. He says he is his brother’s keeper, he says he is his sister’s keeper, but apparently, he keeps them in poverty. Are we to believe that he cares more about us than his own family? Barack Obama is obviously not an apostle of generosity. His “hand outs” are legendary, only when they come from your pocket.

Barack Obama is no Robin Hood. The contrast coould not be more profound. Robin Hood stole from an overbearing, overtaxing, government - to give it back to the poor. Barack Obama wants to overtax all of us to finance his overbearing government.

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