By Cisco Cotto
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.
Think of the contrast in lifestyle. Obama shops at Whole Foods. George burrows for food in alleys. Obama lives in a million dollar mansion. George lives in a 3x3 shanty made of wood scraps and corrugated metal. Obama has a gate to protect his family. George has scars from fights in his Kenyan neighborhood where people are routinely hacked to death with machetes.
But enough about disparity, the real story here is the hypocrisy. Obama’s insistence on the campaign trail that wealthy Americans have to do more to support the poor rings a little hollow now, doesn’t it?
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?
This sheds light on Obama’s view that the government forcibly taking your money to give it to someone else is virtuous. But isn’t true virtue deciding on your own to give your money to someone else? Obama apparently doesn’t see things that way. Just look at his tax returns. At least he’s consistent.
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