Posted on 02/22/2008 2:20:34 PM PST by Delacon
Why are Republicans in Congress trying to help Barack Obama?
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.
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.
The bipartisan bill would 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."
The bill's other co-sponsors include Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Chris Dodd, D-Conn., Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Russ Feingold, D-Wis., Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., Charles Hagel, R-Neb., and Robert Mendez, D-N.J.
We should be on guard any time politicians use the word "comprehensive," an umbrella word that always shades a lot of mischief. The notion that U.S. taxpayers should or could cut in half the number of people worldwide who live in poverty by 2015 is ridiculous.
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.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
>>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
Hey Phyllis, is this the same plan as the Bush-McCain plan?
>>Ten cents more per year to the UN is way too much.<<
Please tell me this money doesn’t go through the U.N..... :(
BTTT
$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.
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.
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/
“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.
Do you see the same pattern here that I do?
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.
A billion here a billion there. A trillion and we are talking real money.
Its a bipartisan bill ya idjit.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Yes senators are referred to as congressmen. Ya idiot.
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