Obama's sovereignty giveaway plan

worldnetdaily.com ^ | February 22, 2008 | Phyllis Schlafly

[callisto]

.7% of 13 trillion = 91 000 000 000

Per the CIA Factbook for 2007 (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/us.html)

US GDP = $13.86 Trillion
multiply by .007 = $97,020,000,000
multiply by 13 years = $1,261,260,000,000,000

[snowrip]

Jeffrey Sachs, who ran the U.N.'s "Millennium Project," which monitors compliance with and progress toward these goals, says that the U.N. plan to force the U.S. to pay 0.7 percent of GNP in increased foreign aid spending would add $65 billion a year to what the U.S. already spends. "We are short by $65 billion each year, which may seem like a vast sum, but it represents just 0.5% of our GNP," says Sachs.

Over a 13-year period, from 2002, when the U.N.'s Financing for Development conference was held, to the target year of 2015, when the U.S. is expected to meet the Millennium Development Goals, this amounts to $845 billion.

Ten cents more per year to the UN is way too much.

[gondramB]

>>multiply by 13 years<<

I missed the part about this being over 13 years.

>>multiply by 13 years = $1,261,260,000,000,000<<

Agreed.

Which makes the GOP’s numbers odd.

>>Some of the politicians on Capitol Hill regularly and sometimes secretly attach costly “earmarks” to bills to benefit special interests. Since Senator John McCain says he wants to eliminate those earmarks, he should start with the Barack Obama bill, the Global Poverty Act (S. 2344), which itself is a vastly expanded form of earmark. It commits the U.S. to spending $845 billion to eradicate poverty in the rest of the world. McCain could vote on the bill fairly soon because it could come up for a full Senate vote at any time. Where does he stand on it?<<

Maybe they are figuring an Obama administration will decrease the GDP by a third.

http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/ckincaid/2008/ck_0221p.shtml
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974711/posts

[dforest]

Hey Phyllis, is this the same plan as the Bush-McCain plan?

[gondramB]

>>Ten cents more per year to the UN is way too much.<<

Please tell me this money doesn’t go through the U.N..... :(

[dforest]

BTTT

[callisto]

$13.86 is the ‘07 GDP. The original calculation probably uses the actual GDPs for 2002 - 2006 with an estimation of the outlying years from 2008 - 2015, so the variance may lie within the past years and possible estmation of a slower growth for future years.

[Dog Gone]

Just when you thought republicans have screwed us as much as they could...

Let's see. Do the Republicans control the committee?

How retarded is it to blame the Republicans for something passing out of committee that they have ZERO chance of blocking in committee?

Pretty damn retarded.

You can't filibuster something in committee.

This site is becoming disgusting in blaming Republicans for things Democrats do.

Retarded.

Just declare this forum a third party site and get it over with.

[callisto]

Ooops! I forgot to include a link to one of the “original” recent articles from AIM:

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-global-tax-proposal-up-for-senate-vote/

[Sybeck1]

“Republicans allowed a bill that carries his name, among nine others, to pass the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by voice vote last week – without any hearings. That means there was no roll-call vote so no member can be held accountable. The same bill passed the House by voice vote last year.

The Obama bill passed out of committee with the cooperation of the co-sponsor, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind. A Rhodes scholar like former President Bill Clinton, Lugar has never seen a United Nations enhancement he didn’t like.”

The voice vote was pubbie approved.

[Halgr]

Do you see the same pattern here that I do?

[GLH3IL]

I see your point, but shouldn’t the republicans on the committee screamed bloody murder about this and oppose it without any hesitation? Instead, it seem as though they just sighed, shrugged their shoulders, and let this crap flow on through without the sligtest challenge.

It’s the lack of a backbone that’s the core issue here....we are already acting like we are back in the 1980’s when our own Illinois House Minority Leader Bob Michael was ok with being a loser.

[Delacon]

A billion here a billion there. A trillion and we are talking real money.

[Delacon]

Its a bipartisan bill ya idjit.

[nicmarlo]

Do you see the same pattern here that I do?

Yes......I most certainly do.

The Obama bill passed out of committee with the cooperation of the co-sponsor, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind. A Rhodes scholar like former President Bill Clinton, Lugar has never seen a United Nations enhancement he didn't like.

Obama's costly, dangerous and altogether bad bill (S. 2433), which could come up in the Senate any day, is called the Global Poverty Act. It would commit U.S. taxpayers to spend 0.7 percent of our Gross Domestic Product on foreign handouts, which is at least $30 billion over and above the exorbitant and wasted sums we already give away overseas.

[Dog Gone]

Its a bipartisan bill ya idjit.

Kiss off, pal. Just because Chuck Hagel was the lone Republican to "co-author" the bill, we should blame all Republicans?

Yeah, that's real bi-partisan. Yeah, the Republicans really screwed us because Chuck Hagel did something stupid, which couldn't have been stopped anyway.

Some really deep thinking going on in your head.

[Delacon]

Bite me ahole. This bill hasn’t been significantly opposed by republican congressmen. Our republican congressmen suck and so do their appologist like you.

[Dog Gone]

Bite me ahole. This bill hasn’t been significantly opposed by republican congressmen. Our republican congressmen suck and so do their appologist like you.

We don't generally refer to our senators as congressmen, but I imagine that's too subtle for you.

Continue your anti-Republican tirade. I'm sure that will help the Democrats, which probably is your goal, anyway.

Sure as hell don't blame the Democrats for a bill that they overwhelmingly support and the Republicans were powerless to prevent getting out of committee. That would involve some logic.

[Delacon]

What do you want out of this argument moron? You want this bill to pass? You want a Obama kudo? You want a big gov’t bill? You want to remain an idiot protecting republican legislators?

[Delacon]

Yes senators are referred to as congressmen. Ya idiot.