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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (9490)	3/17/2009 2:25:30 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

(The blonde talking head even said, right after the clip was played, that this was a roundup of quotes "from this WEEKEND". LOL!)

To: pompsander who wrote (9490)	3/17/2009 5:39:50 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 103300

CHARITY WOES "President Obama's drive to reduce tax deductions for charity means trouble for New York - especially its cultural institutions," Roger Kimball writes in the New York Post. "Consider: The Metropolitan Museum of Art just announced that it's eliminating 74 full- and part-time employees from its merchandising staff and plans to reduce overall staff by upward of 10 percent in the near future," said Mr. Kimball, editor and publisher of the New Criterion. "And those cuts are prompted simply by the stock market's decline, which has hammered the Met's endowment. Still ahead is the hit the museum would take from Obama's proposals to make it about 20 percent more expensive for top earners to give to charities by reducing what they can deduct from their tax bill. "So, even as people are upgrading their calculators to handle the large number of zeros required by the Obama administration's gargantuan spending packages, cultural leaders are asking themselves: What in God's name is he doing?"