“The Senator derided the idea that markets, trade, and hard work are the path to economic prosperity—calling this approach a reliance upon the “engine of capitalistic greed.””
Therein lies the rub...
Vote McCain.
Heaven help us! Is there anyone in the Senate with the cajones, brains and fortitude to stop this insanity??
A massive transfer of wealth from the haves to the have-nots. That is the biggest obsession of marxists everywhere. If it starts it will never end because the left will never say “enough, we have ended poverty”.
This bill needs to DIE.
Is this the same $800 billion recently set aside to assist the mortgage lenders who got into trouble with bad home loans (some of which was made to “undocumented” residents of the US), and caused the US debt limit to be raised to $10 TRILLION)?
Or is this an ADDITIONAL $800 billion to be put up for this purpose?
“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you are talking about REAL money.” Seems like another Senator from Illinois, Everett Dirksen, made that remark some years back.
On the other hand, NObama said “war can be prevented if we just sit down and have dialog”. Can't we just talk to the pooooor people and solve it?
i am not a member of pat robertson’s church but i do admire what their operation blessing does
they were first on the scene after katrina
they have a program that drills fresh water wells in african villages - the cost is $1500 each
for all the bashing pat robertson takes, his operation blessing provides real relief for suffering people - i’d rather funnel my money through operation blessing than the un
The ‘message of change I bring to the world’?????
I’m beginning to feel like a Pharisee.
Vote McCain!
And who are the socialist voters that want your money? You can see them with their Obama bumper stickers everywhere.
Next time you pull up next to an occupied Obamamobile, demand that they give you the keys, you know...we all live in a commune in Obamaland.
Good God, after the failure of the USA “War on Poverty” this stupid sob suggests a worldwide one?
I wrote both of my senators yesterday to help stop this farce. You should do the same!
So, the US Senate has now taken up the task of impoverishing the entire world?
Exactly why would we want to give our money to the poor foreigners when we have so many poor and homeless Americans who could put that money to uses inside our own economy?
Holy crap! So they want to do to the rest of the world what they’ve already done to the nuclear black families of America? America be the world’s new baby daddy!
Let me look in my handy pocket Constitution and see just what part or amendment would make such an atrocity legal.
I was just checking this bill on Wikipedia and I came across this:
“A number of news outlets have made false reports about this bill and called it Global Poverty Tax. In February 2008, Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media wrote that the Global Poverty Act (S.2433) “would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid.” [1] This is not in the bill; the bill does not require any minimum foreign aid spending. The only requirement of the bill is that the President create a plan to address global poverty and it goes on to suggest what areas the plan will cover.[2] Other outlets ran a similar story including WorldNetDaily[3] which cites Kincaid as a source.”