Out of My Mind

Certified scumbags (as if we didn't know).

From the Times (registration required):

December 19, 2005
Study Shows the Superrich Are Not the Most Generous
By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON

Working-age Americans who make $50,000 to $100,000 a year are two to six times more generous in the share of their investment assets that they give to charity than those Americans who make more than $10 million, a pioneering study of federal tax data shows.

The least generous of all working-age Americans in 2003, the latest year for which Internal Revenue Service data is available, were among the young and prosperous - the 285 taxpayers age 35 and under who made more than $10 million - and the 18,600 taxpayers making $500,000 to $1 million. The top group had on average $101 million of investment assets while the other group had on average $2.4 million of investment assets.

Compare this to my nine year old who contributed $20.00 to Katrina all on her own because the people needed the money -- and has trouble understanding why W cared less about them than she did, why he thought his vacation was more important than doing his job.