Santorum's charitable donations lag rivals

[NJMaverick]

Quote:NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- White House hopeful Rick Santorum lags behind both his 2012 competitors and wealthy Americans in general when it comes to charitable giving, according to tax documents.
Santorum gave $81,500 to charity over the past four years, or 2.2% of the more than $3.6 million in total income he earned since leaving the Senate, the documents showed.
he tax returns, provided to CNN on Thursday, did not break down charitable giving by recipient.
From 2007 to 2009, Santorum's rate of charitable giving fluctuated between 2.03% and 2.67% of his earnings.
In 2010, the rate dropped to 1.76% of his $923,411 in income. That same year, President Obama gave 14.2% of his income to charity, while Mitt Romney donated 13.8% and Newt Gingrich gave 2.6%.
Ron Paul has not released his tax returns.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/16/news/eco...ce=cnn_bin

[janedrake]

Why am I not surprised? Santorum is not about being a Christian. He's about making sure everyone around him is as miserable and repressed as he is.

[pappy]

(02-18-2012 09:19 AM)janedrake Wrote:  Why am I not surprised? Santorum is not about being a Christian. He's about making sure everyone around him is as miserable and repressed as he is.

You make him sound like the stereotype of a Jewish mother.

Actually I think he really wants everyone to be a Santorian© Catholic.

[NJMaverick]

(02-18-2012 09:19 AM)janedrake Wrote:  Why am I not surprised? Santorum is not about being a Christian. He's about making sure everyone around him is as miserable and repressed as he is.

Yup, Rick uses religion like a weapon, a weapon to bludgeon others with.

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[Andy823]

(02-18-2012 10:34 AM)NJMaverick Wrote:  

(02-18-2012 09:19 AM)janedrake Wrote:  Why am I not surprised? Santorum is not about being a Christian. He's about making sure everyone around him is as miserable and repressed as he is.

Yup, Rick uses religion like a weapon, a weapon to bludgeon others with.

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Exactly, just like the vast majority of republicans who use religion to gain votes. They have been doing this for years, and years, playing on those who are zealous, or over zealous, about their religious beliefs, and who are gullible enough to "think" that the republicans will "change" the country and turn in into a theocratic ruled government. Even though history has proved that nothing ever changes once the republican gets elected. They keep on falling for the BS year after year when those republicans running for office use them by going to the social issues tactics, and getting those who only care about forcing their religion on others to vote for them.