Posted on 02/12/2008 7:36:41 PM PST by Zhang Fei
You'd think so. When I said the same thing on this forum someone replied that it sounded shallow and bigoted.
For liberal 'world citizens,' no. They'd vote for him if for no other reason than to show the rest of the world how 'tolerant' they are.
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"I voted for the first Black President! See how proud I am of myself?"
"But what's his platform? What's he plan to do for America?"
"I dunno, something about 'change' I guess. But he's Blaaaack! The first one!"
OK, in self defense, I’m leaving tomorrow to become the King of Madagascar. Lay it on me, Obama....$$$.
But first, I guess I better find Madagascar on a map.
The only “change” we will have after B. Hussein Obama and the Dhimmicrats get through looting us will be what you have left of your paycheck.
Kyoto with a happy face and without the icky global warming science.
It’s not an Appropriations bill - there’s no $. Period.
At best, it’s an effort to direct State Dept to coordinate (across the interagency) & strategize how to leverage it current programs that may relate (or be ‘rationalizable’ as relating) to poverty reduction. One could characterize it, at worse, as an unfunded mandate.
Neither the [http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.2433:]full text House or Senate version of the bill supports that assertion (to put it diplomatically). And again, it’s not an appropriations bill.
The bill’s language direct the US to develop a strategy to support “Continued investment in existing United States initiatives related to international poverty reduction, such as the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003, the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003, the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, and trade preference programs for developing countries, such as the African Growth and Opportunity Act” and to submit a report to Congress NLT 1 year after Act becomes law on the strategy and the effectiveness of the programs listed above toward reducing poverty.
There does not appear to be a Presidential Budget Request (PBR) or a Congressional Addition (i.e., an “earmark”) appropriation connected to it. The FY09 PBR was recently submitted to Congress; the Executive agencies are preparing briefings for Congressional staffers.
I can ‘guestimate’ from where the “$845B” figure was generated ... it’s a red herring (at a most generous characterization).
the proposal says the money will go to the U.N. and let the U.N. the payout...
Also, this little tidbit..
In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that declaration commits nations to banning "small arms and light weapons" and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
This is f'ed up. This makes me sick to my stomach.
Yep, I'll have it made.LOL
(4) MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS- The term `Millennium Development Goals' means the goals set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, General Assembly Resolution 55/2 (2000).
this is the link for the this resolution: http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ares552e.pdf
For a newbie who only posted to this thread, you sure seem to be trying to shut off the alarm. hmmmmmmm.
I was hearing about this bill getting some movement
This bill commits the United States to the UN's Millennium Project and the Millennium Development Goals
And what is buried in these goals that Obama wants to commit us to? In Chapter 13 we have :
Development practitioners today see little hope for the developed world to follow through on the Millennium Development Goals promise when it has not followed through on assistance promises before, such as the long-standing target for 0.7 percent of GNP for official development assistance.0.7 % of the 2007 US GDP of $14.5 TRILLION is a $101 BILLION tax on the US, payable to the United Nations
This bill is moving.... something to keep an eye on here folks.
4/24/2008:
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Biden with amendments and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-331.
4/24/2008:
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 718.
SHORT TITLE(S) AS INTRODUCED:
Global Poverty Act of 2007
SHORT TITLE(S) AS REPORTED TO SENATE:
Global Poverty Act of 2007
OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED:
A bill to require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.
papaBear3625,
I just got alerted to this bill... it is a “must watch..”
David
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened.”
– Norman Thomas, American socialist
The audacity of audacity.
Standard Marxist bs.
The best definition of Foreign Aid that I ever read was, “Foreign Aid is the slickest scheme ever developed to take money from the poor people of one country and to give it to the rich people in another.”
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