I am deeply disgusted by the lack of personal financial commitment that Senator Joe Bidden shows to the domestic violence victims he claims to care about.
The Saturday, September 13, 2008 edition of The Boston Globe reported that Senator Biden and his wife, last year (2007) claimed $995 in deductions for charitable giving, out of a reported adjusted gross income of $319,853. How much of that went to domestic violence charities we are not told, but it is certainly equal to, or less than $995.
As an example of what an one average America gives in a year to charity, last year, I claimed charitable donations to a domestic violence shelter in the 4-digit range, out of a reported adjusted gross income not even close to Senator Biden’s 6-digit neighborhood. Although I don’t own a clothes dryer, or a fancy business suit like United States Senators wear, I still try to do everything I can to help victims of domestic violence (both male and female) from my personal finances, apparently unlike Senator Biden.
Biden and his wife, Jill, earned $319,853 in adjusted gross income and paid $72,787 in federal taxes last year, including $2,721 in alternative minimum taxes. They claimed $995 in deductions for charitable giving, about triple what they deducted in any of the nine previous years. Over the past decade they reported giving an average of $369 to charity.”
“Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, the Democratic nominee for vice president, and his wife reported giving a fraction of 1 percent of their income to charity during the past decade, below the national average, tax records show.
Driven by gender feminist ideology, Senator Biden’s lack of commitment to all victims of domestic violence (male as well as female) is not a new revelation. Biden’s domestic violence legislation has purposefully, systematically, excluded male victims of domestic violence for years. I find his most current lack of personal giving even more hypocritical than the Senator Biden I’ve already come to know. On the one hand, Biden has repeatedly bragged about all he has done for domestic violence victims, spending billions in taxpayers’ money exclusively on female victims, but now, on the other hand, we see a Senator Biden who’s unwilling to put his personal money where his mouth is.
In the Boston Globe story, “A Biden spokesman said the couple has given more to charity than they claimed on their taxes.” Well, guess what Senator Biden, most of us have done that. Why, Senator Biden, am I to supposed to assume you are more generous in that category than I, and others, have been? While domestic violence programs across America scream out, “There’s No Excuse for Domestic Violence.,” a spokesman for Senator Joe Biden makes excuses for the apparently miserly and hypocritical way Biden personally contributes to a cause (domestic violence/the Violence Against Women Act) that he loves to brag is “his baby.” Please Senator Biden, spare the men, women and children of America your disingenuousness. We already know how misandirst, ineffective and uncaring you are about truly resolving the issue of domestic violence in America – from the record.
