[Non-Sequitur]

Anyone bother to actually read the legislation? It's like any other POS coming out of Congress these days, long on rhetoric and short on specifics. It doesn't look like it commits us to anything more than what President Bush has already done.

S. 2433

[Roccus]

Yes, I've read it. One thing that strikes me is that at NO time are the words “United Nations” used except at the end,

“Sec. 5. DEFENITIONS

(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).”

ALL other references to the UN have been stricken from the bill.

So what exactly are these Millennium Development Goals?
Aside from the writing off of all debt owed by developing nations, it proposes to halve the number of people (1 billion) that live on $1 or less/day and those (1.6 billion) that live on less than $2/day. (I'm sure we aren't going to eliminate them, so this is going to cost TRILLIONS by 2015...all controlled by the UN)
The MDG also charge the UN with nuclear disarmament, gun control, AIDS/HIV, tuberculosis control and compliance with Kyoto.(just to name a few) Don't believe me? Then read it for yourself.

http://209.85.215.104/search?q=cache:Vr_WfuAsBwQJ:www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ares552e.pdf+United+Nations+Millennium+Declaration,+General+Assembly+Resolution+55/2+(2000).&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Everything in this will be above and beyond what Bush has already done.

Now think about this. Do you really want the UN this deep into the workings of this nation?

[ssschev]

The Global Poverty Act is tied to the “Milleneum Goal”. Read that document and the hair on the back of your neck will stand on end. Why do you think he needs his Special Police? This special police will not be Americans trying to remove your Second Amendment