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.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Yeah, keep saying support the party vote for McCain... this is the kind of crap you get when you compromise your principles for party unity and you have no means to complain much less combat it.
Sodomy, Socialism and Surrender. The more things change...
What are we doing here people? Is there anyone out there? What happened to WE THE PEOPLE?
This is wealth redistribution, plain and simple. We are being screwed by our own.
Saul Alinsky... Hillary and Obamas mentor
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39a1bb090251.htm
Antonio Gramsci... Hillarys mentor
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a4c610569be.htm
Frank Marshall Davis... Obamas mentor
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=2008-02-20&ID=228129
btt
We The People are nothing more than worker ants now,,
Lugar has always been a squish-head, and now he is senile old squish-head.
What are the House and Senate rules for demanding a recorded vote? Can the Dems just have a voice vote whenever they feel like it, or can one member raise a point of order and demand a recorded vote. If the second, then I am even more disgusted than usual at the Republicans who have Potomac Fever and don't want to make waves. Everything Congress does should have a recorded vote. I don't want a resolution naming Broccoli Appreciation Day passed on a voice vote, much less giving away nearly a trillion dollars of our nations treasure.
13.2 * .007 * (10^12) = 92 400 000 000
Looks like that would be 90 billion dollars. Anybody know where we can see how much we spend of foreign aid now?
I think its 20 billion just for Israel and Egypt. I would think that with Iraq we are already over 90 billion.
They made it clear they are embarrassed by conservatives, as during the imbroglio over Shamnesty. They were hand in glove with democrats trying to give the country away and were mad that conservatives spoke up.
You don’t see republicans working to get McCain to mend fences with conservatives, do you?
No.
They are all busy telling conservatives to drop their principles and support McCain.
“Looks like that would be 90 billion dollars.”
Some have put the tab for this bill at $845 billion.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974711/posts
It would be kind of a stretch to count your $90 billion iraq money as part of foreign aid funds destined to fight global poverty. Not impossible, but it would be a stretch...
The biggest problem with this legislation, apart from the underhanded way it’s moving through the process, is that is abrogates US sovereignty and assesses these funds in the name of the UN, to be spent according to UN directives and agreements springing out of the Monterrey conference several years ago.
For my part, get us out of the UN and get the UN out of the US.
I called Vionivich’s office this week to inquire as to the senators view on this bill. The staffer replied the bill was not ready for vote and therefore ol George did not have a view. I left my comments knowing it does not matter to these elites. I bet you when it is all said and done, Vionivich will vote yea....
We’re not gonna be able to kick them out with McCain, Obama or Clinton in office.
Have you noticed the Bush administration is quiet on this?
There are two kinds of republicans. World Government republicans and then conservatives. Unfortunately Bush and McCain fall into the former.
>>“Looks like that would be 90 billion dollars.”
Some have put the tab for this bill at $845 billion.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974711/posts<<
Well.... since I looked up the GDP on a government web site and then used the Google calculator and showed my work, I am reasonably comfortable that whomever did the calculations in the other thread is by a factor of 10.
To do a rough estimate ... suppose the GDP is an even 13 trillion. 10% would be 1.3 trillion. 1% would be 130 billion so 7/10 of 1% would be less than 100 billion.
The google calculator will also do the math in terms of percent
13 * (10^12) * (.7%) = 91 000 000 000
and even words
.7% of 13 trillion = 91 000 000 000
True...but I can dream.
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