Posted on 06/26/2008 10:21:18 AM PDT by kingattax
The Global Poverty Act of 2007 (S.2433) is coming up for a Senate vote sometime after the July 4 recess, according the office of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Once Harry Reid and the Democrat leadership put it on the calendar, we could have as little as a week to prepare for the vote.
The bill is sponsored in the Senate by Barack Obama.
If passed, it will cost taxpayers $845,000,000,000 over the next 13 years, in addition to our current foreign aid expenditures.
And the best part is that it will be administered in conjunction with...brace yourselves...the United Nations. The same one of "Food-for-Oil" fame.
It passed (H.R. 1302) earlier by a unanimous voice vote in the House.
It's about global income redistribution. Their distribution - our income.
Heard much debate about it? Ah, it's only 8.5 tenths of a trillion.
No thank you we all ready owe eight times that much. Besides, how would we pay for all those entitlement programs the liberals keep making?
I try to temper my hyperbole but this guy really will be the beginning of the downfall of our great nation.
Well I'm guessing that entitlements are what this is for. Entitlements for every country but ours. (the United States of America)
Your screen name tells me that you are facing the same home heating nightmare that I am here in upstate NY.
Call ‘em up in their offices! Boo them at the parades! Lying, thieving politicians who don't give a damn about us!
Let ‘em vote on it.
The everyday man on the street quite likely has no idea that Obama supports crap like this. A vote on the measure will turn it into a campaign issue, which is nothing but a positive for our side, IMO.
I don’t believe that the general public will EVER go for a global tax. As an example, my mother, one of those traditional southern state, conservative-leaning Dems (who can’t stand Obama and is voting for McCain, the first time for a Republican since Reagan in ‘84), was absolutely stunned and horrified when I told her about this.
I have come to the conclusion that the libtards are trying to force the government into default and collapse the economy by over reaching with these social programs.
Once the governement as we know it collapses of it’s own financial weight then the libtards can create their socialist utopia.
“according the office of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison...”
That’s another way of saying that it’s never going to happen, but that Kay Bailey Hutchison would dearly love it to happen. Unfortunately, the Dems are not so stupid that they’d make this an issue just before the election. They will wait until right after the election, so that they can pass it and put it on Bush’s desk before he leaves office, and then when he vetoes it, they will criticize him for doing so, but that will be the last you’ll hear of it, even if Obama is elected.
You might be right...but our RINOs and not even Bush are exempt from blame on run away budgets lately.
Congress needs to be over turned. Ouster of EVERY incumbant should be the nessecity.
My question is (and though I don’t have much faith in the SCOTUS) how in the world would this be Constitutional? Administration of a tax by an entity other than the Soverginty of the USA? GTFO!
How could this be true? This doesn't make sense. A global tax bill — and it passes UNANIMOUSLY in the House. There's a piece missing here...
Heck, why not spend $845,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000?
On the vote:
Sep 25, 2007: This bill passed in the House of Representatives by voice vote. A record of each representative’s position was not kept.
(from the govwatch website—I’ll go get the link and post it)
They are throwing out ridiculous numbers like “it will only cost $0.01 per individual.”
We FReepers need to make sure this is made known to every conservative talk show host in America and we need to push them to flood the airwaves with this out and out communistic attempt by The Obamanation.
“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 [U.N.] 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.”
You’d think they would want to reward the geniuses who could figure out how to feed and house people for under a dollar a day, not eliminate them.
My only answer is that the rich know how to hide their money and the” middle class” will be the only ones footing the bill.
Thanks!
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