Why is always up to the United States to not only solve the world’s problems, protect the world but then pay for everything too.
This is not only ridiculous but also downright scary. Senator Obama and the rest of these Morons are even thinking about this make me want scream.
This country is seriously in trouble if this gets passed. Helping people is one thing, like we don’t do that now. This country gives more money than any other country. Enough is enough.
Now the UN wants to own this country. No! NO! and NO!
Maybe we shouldn’t bother answering the phone at 3AM. It will just be somebody else wanting something for nothing.
Article on S.2433, the Global Poverty Act
The Global Poverty Act: The Wrong Track for U.S. Aid Policy by Ambassador Terry Miller and Brett D. Schaefer April 1, 2008 Heritage Foundation Web Memo #1878
http://www.heritage.org/Research/ForeignAid/wm1878.cfm Mr. Cline said,
“But the Obama bill does more than allow the U.N. to tax American citizens. It is more than a matter of legality or illegality. For all practical purposes, it surrenders U.S. political sovereignty and independence to the U.N., an organization most of whose members are actively hostile to the U.S. Has the U.S. ever approved a tax on its citizens imposed by the U.N.?
The "Millennium Development Goal" refers to a United Nations declaration adopted by the U.N. Millennium Assembly and Summit in 2000 that calls for "the eradication of poverty" by "redistribution (of) wealth and land," cancellation of "the debts of developing countries" and "a fair distribution of the earth's resources." The IBD reports that "The Millennium project is monitored by Jeffrey D. Sachs, a Columbia University economist. In 2005 he presented then-U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan with a 3,000-page report based on the research of 265 so-called poverty specialists. "Sachs' document criticized the U.S. for giving only $16.5 billion a year in global anti-poverty aid. He argued that we should spend an additional $30 billion a year in order to reach the 0.7% target that the U.N. set for the U.S. in 2000....Sachs said that the only way to force the U.S. to commit that much money is by a global tax, such as a tax on fossil fuels [oil, coal, natural gas]." The tax would be imposed not only on their production, but on their use, as well. Among other consequences, Americans would be impoverished for the purpose of reducing poverty abroad by 0.7 percent of the U.S.'s gross domestic product ……….”
Obama’s Global Poverty Act by Edward Cline April 3, 2008 Capitalist Magazine
Jeffrey Sachs said
“”Since the early 1980s, American development programs have been gutted, to the point that there is little institutional understanding about societies seething because of mass unemployment, rapid population growth, pervasive disease and chronic”
America’s Ignorance is a Threat to Humanity by Jeffrey D. Sachs published by the International Herald Tribune June 8, 2004
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0608-05.htm