S2433 + Obama—UN dominance
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.
Our Constitution is in jeopardy with with the UN in charge, thanks to Obama.
Food aid and foreign aid to poor countries gets siphoned off right into the despots bank accounts doesn’t it?
I mean, these rulers are not exactly frugal when it comes to spending US aid. They seem to like gold plating on everything while their peeps starve at the gate.