Posted on 10/04/2008 2:40:45 PM PDT by pdq
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.
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It would be much higher than that if you factor in the fact that many households don't pay tax.
NFW....I refuse to pay!! OBAMA must be HAMMERED on this. Calling Sarah-cuda!!
“$2,800 per person”
Small price to pay to build Obama’s relatives in Kenya new huts — minus 70 percent administration fee to Williams Ayers and company.
Just what I would expect a closet Marxist like Barack Hussein Obama to seek as president - and probably get if the voters are feckless enough to elect a Democrat-majority congress next month, along with this charlatan.
There is no doubt in my mind that the election of Obama will be a catastrophe for America. This news simply adds to my conviction that this fraud - Obama - must not win, even if that has to mean John 'bi-partisan' McCain as our next president. We've always got Sarah Palin for 2012.
Don’t laugh....I have seen interviews with kenyans and they are expecting the money...and making donations to his campaign (quid pro quo).
Throw that in with the expected reparations at home with no veto available and it looks like a treasury raid.
Sorry...I meant to say another treasury raid!
As a Foreigner who is also a Friend of America I hope you do not mind if I make the following observation:
Most foreigners do not say “thankyou” for American aid. In fact, many of the recipients of American aid end up being ungrateful to the point of hating America. Some of them resort to terrorist activity.
Yes this is counter-intuitive and yes it is jolly ungrateful and unworthy. It is the loutish behavior of ingrates.
With that in mind, exactly WHY THE DEVIL do you Yanks persist in shipping large quantities of your Treasure overseas in the form of Foreign Aid? Surely it’s not just because Bono and Geldoff say it’s something you should do...?
It makes no bloody sense!
He'd better hurry before the UN beats him with their World Welfare Program...paid by: You Know Who!!
If it passes this year Bush will say, “I really don’t like this but I’ll sign it.”
Q. Why is there no mention of this in GOP advertising?
He won’t even take care of his improvished brother, and he wants us to?
You're preaching to the choir here amigo. Conservatives know what mere handouts accomplish with the experience of LBJ's "Great Society" scam of the sixties. Thanks to Johnson millions of low-income Americans went on welfare. Not only did the poor get poorer, the crime rate skyrocketed. Many of these families remained locked in a cycle of poverty and crime. But good intentions are what counts, right?
Liberals just can't help themselves. They see poor people around the world and believe it's caused by either indifference or, most astonishing of all, the capitalist free-market system. And with Obama's probable election, further billions (trillions?) of tax-payer dollars will be thrown down various third-world kleptocracies around the globe. The road to hell etcera.
Chairty begins at home on Wall Street. Barney Frank already saw to it that we are drained. We need to stop the STUPIDITY now.
> And with Obama’s probable election, further billions (trillions?) of tax-payer dollars will be thrown down various third-world kleptocracies around the globe. The road to hell etcera.
A week is an eternity in Politics: there are four Eternities yet to go until your Election. Obama isn’t yet in the White House, not by a long, long shot.
With any luck, McCain will get in and turn off the Foreign-aid tap quick-smart. Else our New Zealand news agencies are reporting wrong again (it happens sometimes) the United States has a small matter of US$700 trillion(?) of domestic financial crisis to sort out.
I cannot even envisage that amount of money, even if I close my eyes and try really hard...
Bags I that NOT ONE FOREIGN COUNTRY to whom the US has sent Aid in the past will send so much as one twenty-cent piece to help y’all out. They are ingrates and probably secretly gloating at your misfortune.
Fair weather friends, I guess. And it sucks.
Liberals have trashed this Country
Coming our way if Obama wins.
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