“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.
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?
The Global Poverty Act of 2007 (S. 2433), which currently has 23 Senate cosponsors, would commit the United States to spending 0.7 percent of its gross national product (GNP) on foreign aid, over and above what we already spend. The bill references the United Nations’ Millennium Declaration (from 2000) which calls for countries to dramatically increase aid and sign onto many dangerous treaties, including the International Criminal Court, the Kyoto Protocol, CEDAW, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Three Reasons your Senators Should Oppose the Global Poverty Act:
It carries a price tag of $845 billion of American taxpayers’ money. The U.S. already spends $16.3 billion on foreign aid per year. The Obama bill calls for an additional $845 billion to be spent over 13 years. This amounts to a tax of over $2,000 per American taxpayer.
History tells us that exporting large amounts of money to third-world countries has little effect on eradicating world hunger and poverty. Foreign aid dollars very often end up lining the pockets of those developing nations’ corrupt dictators. One recent example of this was the infamous Oil-for-Food scandal, where the UN’s humanitarian aid program ended up with Saddam Hussein pocketing billions.
It is part of a much larger UN scheme. The Global Poverty Act is simply a first step in adopting the provisions outlined in the UN’s Millennium Development Goals , which includes additional assaults on American’s wallets in the form of “currency transfer taxes,” “fees for commercial use of the oceans,” and “taxes on the carbon content of fuels,” just to name a few.
I agree completely! Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.