Posted on 10/01/2008 10:33:59 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
For those of you who are not familiar with The Global Poverty Act, of which Barack Obama is the lead sponsor, it is a tax on Americans which will total $845 billion (this is 0.7 percent of the Gross National Product). I doubt you will ever hear this discussed in any debates.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, our current population is 305,154,108 with 111,162, 259 U.S. households. If G.P.A. is enacted, our cost will be $2,800 per person or $7,800 per household.
Here is a condensed explanation of the G.P.A. (along with some of the Millennium Development Goals. The entire provisions are accessible online by typing in Global Poverty Act 2007 into the Google search engine.): G.P.A. directs the president to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the U.S. foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people who live on less than $1 per day.
G.P.A. is required to incorporate specific and measurable goals and to consist of specified components, including: 1) continued investment or involvement in existing U.S. initiatives related to international poverty reduction and trade preference programs for developing countries; 2) improving the effectiveness of development assistance and making available additional overall United States assistance levels as appropriate; 3) enhancing and expanding debt relief as appropriate; 4) mobilizing and leveraging the participation of businesses and public-private partnerships; 5) coordinating the goal of poverty reduction with other internationally recognized Millennium Development Goals; and 6) integrating principles of sustainable development (this has a direct tie to the U.N. Agenda 21) and entrepreneurship into policies and programs.
Listed here are some of the Millennium Development Goals for you to ponder: 1) a "standing peace force," (a U.N. standing army-I wonder where the vast majority of soldiers will come from?); 2) A U.N. arms register of all small arms and light weapons (NRA members will love this one); 3) peace education (covering all levels from pre-school to university level); and 4) political control of the global economy.
The goals also require implementation of all U.N. treaties that the United States has never ratified. These sound like more Big Brothers taking over at a global level-just a thought.
I do not believe it is the responsibility of American taxpayers to reduce world poverty. We have more than our share of poor and underprivileged in our own country that we cannot get out of poverty, how can we do it worldwide? None of this $845 billion is dedicated to the poor in the United States. America already gives enormous amounts of aid to impoverished countries whose leaders (dictators) probably never distribute the aid.
Who do you think will disperse this money? Obama is about taxes, socialism and giving away our sovereignty. Obama is not a good choice for America.
Why is this not in any debates?
Why has McCain NOT made an ad about it?
Obama is beyond insane! As the article said, a lot of the aid that goes to these countries never reaches the people that it’s supposed to reach. It doesn’t work!
I know we should help the poor, but this is NOT the way to do it!
Typical socialist dogma: take as much as possible from those who have more!
That’s in addition to what we already pay the UN. And with NO oversight.
I dunno....
My B.S. Meter is is pinging on this story.
It seems the real difference between the modern American left and the Nazi’s is that the Nazis were National Socialists, and the modern American left are International Socialists.
“Why has McCain not made an ad about it?”
Obama went overseas to promise the “people of the world” that he would end the divide between rich and poor nations, and said, “people of the world, this is our moment, this is our time.”
Obama is running for a hostile takeover of the US on behalf of the anti-American international community. His plan is quite plainly to rape and pillage America’s wealth, and redistribute it to the rest of the world. His speech was brazenly candid about this.
He has already put forth this very plan in the stealth S.2433 Global Poverty Act of 2007, which he authored in the Senate.
A sizable chunk, of course, would go to ‘Mother Africa’which he vowed to place ‘above all’ when he joined Wright’s church. (the church also has drawn up plans for reparatiions)
Why hasn’t McCain mentioned this atrocity?
Why hasn’t McCain done a lot of things??
Why is he treating Obama with kid gloves?
Email McCain. Tell him he has an obligation as our candidate to get off his duff and fight back.
To h*ll with bipartisian BS, to h*ll with PC, to h*ll with ‘conducting a respectful campaign’!
Respectful campaigning went out the window with Obama’s nasty, ‘lipstick on a pig’ and ‘You can wrap AN OLD FISH in a piece of paper called change. It’s still going to stink after eight years.’ Take off the gloves, McCain!
Hit the Marxist/Muslim hard with Ayers, Acorn, Violation of Logan Act, Campaigning for Odinga!!
MCCAIN WEBSITE
http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact/
THE CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST’S
GIANT E-MAIL LINKS PAGE!
http://www.conservativeusa.org/megalink.htm
_______________________________________
Is this sheer insanity or what? Letting a black Obama supporter and pro-Obama book author have control of the one and only vice presidential debate??
And here’s the e-mail address of Janet H. Brown, Executive Director of the Debates Commission: jb@debates.org
FLOOD HER OUT WITH PROTESTS. DEMAND IFILL BE REPLACED.
_________________________________________
Go here
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html, read ‘The Making of a fuerher’- the best explanation I’ve found of the Obama- worship insanity. It’s a legitimate psychological disorder. Find out what.
Does the $$ amount sound familiar? Link follows excerpt.
Jeffrey Sachs, who runs the U.N.'s "Millennium Project," says that the U.N. plan to force the U.S. to pay 0.7 percent of GNP in increased foreign aid spending would add $65 billion a year to what the U.S. already spends. Over a 13-year period, from 2002, when the U.N.'s Financing for Development conference was held, to the target year of 2015, when the U.S. is expected to meet the "Millennium Development Goals," this amounts to $845 billion. And the only way to raise that kind of money, Sachs has written, is through a global tax, preferably on carbon-emitting fossil fuels
If you like the Global Poverty Act, you will LOVE the “Jubilee Act.” (S2166)
http://www.jubileeusa.org/jubilee-act.html
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:s.02166:
Don’t you just love the way our “fearless leaders” in Washington lard their socialist twaddle with religious and Biblical references?
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-global-tax-proposal-up-for-senate-vote/
S.2433 Global Poverty Act sponsored by Senator Barack Obama
Google it.
This entire post needs to be sent to the McCain camp. I have emailed them many times. I have no idea if they even read them. Maybe we should bombard his campaign headquarters with calls. In fact, I’m calling about this right now.
“Global Poverty Act”. What a stupid title for legislation.
However, it’s accurate: its enactment will indeed cause global poverty.
Ya know, you take 0.7% of GNP here and 0.7% of GNP there and pretty soon it adds up to real money!!
/sarc
I have seen stuff about this before. The reason that the DBM won't cover it is because they know it will wreck their chance to cover Obama's coronation in January. That's why they won't tell ANY of the truths about him!!
It is true. Obama’s bill commits the US to give the amount demanded by the UN, which would double or triple the amount of aid that we already give voluntarily. We already give more than any other nation in the world with respect to foreign aid. And that doesn’t count private donations. And it doesn’t count the huge amounts of money we spend providing military cover to other countries, or the money we spend paying the lion’s share of the bills for the UN.
Go here. scroll down to the first submenu. Scroll down the sub menu to write Greta,Hannity ect...
This is $845 billion PLUS the hundreds of billions that we already give each year to help poverty in foreign countries. It is a form of global redistribution. The money is given to the UN and who do you think will get their hands on it?? All the countries that hate America!! Getting our tax money to build up their terrorism programs. A world government owned and operated by the UN. It’s time for the USA to get out of the UN anyway and quit funding the radicals that are running it. I guess we have no poverty in America that we could be spending this money on as well as health care, education, social security, etc.....
Not to worry folks, Paulson and Bush are giving it all away long before Obambi get his mitts on it.
There are so many sticks available for Pubbies to beat the Jackasses with. But we have a huge problem...a problem that will cost us the election. The problem is John McCain who wants to be bi-partisan and reach across the aisle and who does’t want to “name names.” Why naming names would not be bi-partisan. McCain doesn’t understand that Republicans are constantly on trial. We are accused of committing crimes we didn’t commit. But Maverick John doesn’t want to name names. And we’ll go down the tubes because of his obtuseness.
Hey, we could pay for all the world leaders that hate America to come here and sit in NY UN office to decide how much more the US taxpayer can afford before they revolt.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.