Posted on 12/03/2008 9:09:04 AM PST by arkadyka
Barack Obama proposed legislation titled Global Poverty Act (S. 2433) and was approved by the Committee, on which Joe Biden was on.
The bill suggests we spend .7% of our GDP - .7% of 13.8 Trillion is just under $100 billion EACH YEAR! - on helping people around the world that live on less than 1 dollar a day. Coincidentally that does not include impoverished people living in the United States...
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What you said BUMP.
Global Marxism Act.
Add that to the 7 trillion of our GDP going for the international bank ‘bailout’. Pretty soon the country won’t have any money to run on.
If that thief wants to take my money and give it away, then it's a different story. My money is for my family and for my charities that I will personally choose based on criteria including my personal approval of how efficiently and for what purposes they spend the money I choose to give them.
BTW, I actually give more than the 7% Obama wants to force me to give, but the difference is that redistributing my wealth against my will is not an appropriate function of government, while voluntarily giving to help the poor is following a command I was given by Jesus Christ and one I follow joyfully.
His brother just won’t get any help unless we pay for it.
Better to give them the know-how to work hard and succeed, instead of the money. That would work. Stealing some of our money and giving it to them will make them lazy.
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