Backyard Politics: Benches for Barack
Here’s one way for Democrats to make a campaign contribution that promises immediate payback. For 40 bucks, Benches for Barack — a grassroots fundraiser advertised on lampposts and on Craigslist — will build you a garden bench. $25 goes toward building supplies and the remaining $15 gets donated to the Obama campaign. A pair of…
Here’s one way for Democrats to make a campaign contribution that promises immediate payback. For 40 bucks, Benches for Barack — a grassroots fundraiser advertised on lampposts and on Craigslist — will build you a garden bench. $25 goes toward building supplies and the remaining $15 gets donated to the Obama campaign.
A pair of bright neighborhood kids, 18-year-old high school grads Harry Fishbein and Emma Dillon, build these sturdy benches in the basement of Harry’s Cobble Hill home and cheerfully deliver them to doorsteps around Brooklyn, free of charge. The benches are 18 inches tall, 4 feet long, and about 10 inches wide, and turnaround is quick. We received ours, which is painted a muted sage green, within hours of sending an email to Benches for Barack.
Harry and Emma made their first sale on Friday June 20 and by time tomorrow’s deliveries are done, they’ll have sold 38 benches — enough to donate $570 to the campaign. They don’t have any furniture-making background, but during Harry’s high school career, he built “a suspension bridge out of cardboard and fishing line that could hold 800 pounds and was 25 feet long,” and “a 7 foot tall geodesic dome out of electrical conduit.” We’re not entirely sure what that means, but one can safely assume that the kid’s benches are gonna hold up.
They’ll be buidling benches and other custom carpentry projects — like wooden trash can containers, sheds, picnic tables, and kids’ bathroom stools — throughout the summer, but in the fall, Harry’s going to Lafayette for engineering and Emma’s heading to Tufts for international relations.
“Thats precisely whats wrong with your thinking. The more you take, the more you should expect to give.”
5:27 Move to Cuba you commie bastard and share a small roll of card board toilet paper. You’ll need it for that shit spewing out your ass all over this thread.
We Earn our keep in America we dont “take”.
the symbolism of benches for obama is about right, since we’re all sitting on our hands right now to avoid spending money
“Look at the statistics not the rhetoric. 40% of the population pays NO income taxes. People making over 100,000 in 2005 earned just over 45% of the income and paid over 70% of the taxes. 85% of all taxes were paid by people making more than 60,000.”
Thats precisely whats wrong with your thinking. The more you take, the more you should expect to give. How you can rake in tons of dollars and think it is right to just amass wealth for your own benefit whilst children starve is beyond me. You should not be mad that you pay taxes. You should be enraged that those taxes are being diverted to an idiotic war, instead of education and/or healthcare.
I’m voting for Obama. It will increase my taxes (due to the social security cap being lifted). McCain won’t affect my taxes either way. But I’ve gotta agree about the “tax cuts for the rich” crap. Its a mindless mantra. People are generally clueless about who actually pays taxes and how much. Its as brainless as the dime-a-dozen trust-funders, the “everyone above me got there through nepotism/race privilege”, the mythical millionaires working in the city paying lext tax than your coffee guy. Not increasing taxes isn’t a tax cut.
Committed to balancing the budget
HE CAN’T BOTH BALANCE THE BUDGET AND CONTNUE THE IRAQ WAR “FOR 100 YEARS.”
History of bipartisanship
WITH PSEUDO-DEMOCRATS LIKE JOE LIEBERMAN.
Tons of governmental experience
NO ACCOMPLISHMENTS, BUT PLENTY OF EXPERIENCE. REMINDS ONE OF A PARTICULAR EX-TEXAS GOVERNOR.
Not wed to the Republican “party line”
JUST TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WHICH HAS BUNGLED THE RUNNING OF THE COUNTRY FOR THE LAST SEVEN YEARS.
Decorated Vietnam War veteran
ADMIRABLE, BUT NOT A REASON TO MAKE SOMEONE PRESDIENT – ASK JOHN KERRY.
Hot, rich wifE
SEE ABOVE
For a Republican, progressive on the environment
WHICH MEANS NOT PROGRESSIVE, AND POTENTIALLY DISASTROUS.
What’s good abut McCain?!
Committed to balancing the budget
History of bipartisanship
Tons of governmental experience
Not wed to the Republican “party line”
Decorated Vietnam War veteran
Hot, rich wife
For a Republican, progressive on the environment
Etc, etc, etc
McCain recently admitted that he doesn’t know how to use a computer…is this someone we want in charge of the largest (for now) economy in the world?
“85% of all taxes were paid by people making more than 60,000.”
Unbelievable.
What will this go to if Obama gets elected?
$60k is nothing in New York for a family … hell, even for a single person.
What’s good about McCain? ANYONE???
Obama-hating asshats.