Multi-millionaire Bush donates $10,000

Normally I would ask you how much you make and how much you donated, or to at least post the percentage of your net worth on its way over there.Today I ask why you ignored my plea to donate a simple link or two, and my offer to pay for it.Mr. Bush isnt the only one ignoring resources at his command to help out. He has money, but you run a coupla websites, on which you could post places to donate, and ways to donate.

I assume — and have assumed — that people *know* where and how to donate relief money for the tsunami victims. And I can tell you this: Bush’s $10,000 amounts to just six-tenths-of-one-percent of his annual income, ass. I don’t mind saying that I’ve donated FAR more than .6% of my annual income to the relief effort. And he’s a BUSH — a member of one of the wealthiest families in the world. So piss off.

And another thing, Stephen. From day one, we’ve been calling for a far greater sum to be donated from our government. We started blasting Bush from the moment $15 million was announced. Look through the archives and you’ll find many articles. I’d like to think that our critical diligence on RBN was a small part of a massive worldwide effort to influence Bush to pledge more. It worked.

Stephen, you’ll be happy to know I’ve posted some links. I don’t know if you have Google or not, but it’s a handy thing. If you do, you can type in a few words like “tsunami” and “relief.” Or “Sandra” and “Bullock.” Or “Bush” and “cheapass.”But if you don’t have Google, you can click on the links in my post, above.Oh, and Bush is a pathetic failure at business who is a multi-millionaire only because he was born into wealth, and he’s clearly not compassionate or Christian, at least not when it comes to people in Asia. Or, um, anywhere else.

Dude, people also know where to buy sony products online, if so inclined, thats not the point of how an ad is supposed to work.You want to reign in people who might see it, and go on impulse, or somebody who hasnt thought about it today, ect.So yell at me as though I missed the point of your post, I didnt. I’d have thought youd be all over that sort of thing.

I’m not gonna yell at you, Stephen.I gave money to the relief effort, as I’m sure you did. But I also pay taxes and am deeply distressed with where my tax money goes (and that goes for both Republican and Democrat administrations). I would prefer to see my elected officials allocating billions of dollars to education and a comprehensive health care system than to a war based solely on lies. And as myself and my colleagues have made clear in our many posts about the tsunami disaster, we would prefer that the American people, through the medium of their government and their tax dollars, give generously to the victims of this horrible disaster. The principle of lobbying your government to do the right thing with YOUR money is one of the pillars of democracy. But then again, so is voting, and that pillar is in pretty sorry shape in our empire.That being said, the point of my post was that Bush is a heartless cheapass. He is a multi-millionaire, but he, like many a Scrooge before him, hoards his money. Perhaps he has forgotten the parable of the rich man. Jesus explains that, while a rich man gives a lot of money to the temple, it’s only a tiny fraction of his total wealth. In contrast, a poor old woman gives only a single coin, but it is all that she has to give. This occasions his famous line, “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.”Bush claims to be a big fan of the Bible. That’s a passage he could stand to read again.