S. 2433: Global Poverty Act of 2007A bill to require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.
Sponsor:
Sen Barack Obama (D-IL)

Co-Sponsors:
Sen Joe Biden (D-DE)
Sen Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
Sen Chris Dodd (D-CT)
Sen Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Sen Russ Feingold (D-WI)
Sen Diane Feinstein (D-CA)
Sen Charles Hagel (R-NE)
Sen Richard Lugar (R-IN)
Sen Robert Menendez (D-NJ)

Text:

110th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 2433
To require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

December 7, 2007

Mr. OBAMA (for himself, Mr. HAGEL, and Ms. CANTWELL) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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A BILL
To require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Global Poverty Act of 2007'.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress makes the following findings:

(1) More than 1,000,000,000 people worldwide live on less than $1 per day, and another 1,600,000,000 people struggle to survive on less than $2 per day, according to the World Bank.
(2) At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, the United States joined more than 180 other countries in committing to work toward goals to improve life for the world's poorest people by 2015.
(3) The year 2007 marks the mid-point to the Millennium Development Goals deadline of 2015.
(4) The United Nations Millennium Development Goals include the goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, that live on less than $1 per day, cutting in half the proportion of people suffering from hunger and unable to access safe drinking water and sanitation, reducing child mortality by two-thirds, ensuring basic education for all children, and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS and malaria, while sustaining the environment upon which human life depends.
(5) On March 22, 2002, President George W. Bush stated: `We fight against poverty because hope is an answer to terror. We fight against poverty because opportunity is a fundamental right to human dignity. We fight against poverty because faith requires it and conscience demands it. We fight against poverty with a growing conviction that major progress is within our reach.'.
(6) The 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States notes: `[A] world where some live in comfort and plenty, while half of the human race lives on less than $2 per day, is neither just nor stable. Including all of the world's poor in an expanding circle of development and opportunity is a moral imperative and one of the top priorities of U.S. international policy.'.
(7) The 2006 National Security Strategy of the United States notes: `America's national interests and moral values drive us in the same direction: to assist the world's poor citizens and least developed nations and help integrate them into the global economy.'.
(8) The bipartisan Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States recommends: `A comprehensive United States strategy to counter terrorism should include economic policies that encourage development, more open societies, and opportunities for people to improve the lives of their families and enhance prospects for their children.'.
(9) At the summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) nations in July 2005, leaders from all eight participating countries committed to increase aid to Africa from the current $25,000,000,000 annually to $50,000,000,000 by 2010, and to cancel 100 percent of the debt obligations owed to the World Bank, African Development Bank, and International Monetary Fund by 18 of the world's poorest nations.
(10) At the United Nations World Summit in September 2005, the United States joined more than 180 other governments in reiterating their commitment to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
(11) The United States has recognized the need for increased financial and technical assistance to countries burdened by extreme poverty, as well as the need for strengthened economic and trade opportunities for those countries, through significant initiatives in recent years, including the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.), the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7601 et seq.), the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, and trade preference programs for developing countries, such as the African Growth and Opportunity Act (19 U.S.C. 3701 et seq.).
(12) In January 2006, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice initiated a restructuring of the United States foreign assistance program, including the creation of a Director of Foreign Assistance, who maintains authority over Department of State and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) foreign assistance funding and programs.
(13) In January 2007, the Department of State's Office of the Director of Foreign Assistance added poverty reduction as an explicit, central component of the overall goal of United States foreign assistance. The official goal of United States foreign assistance is: `To help build and sustain democratic, well-governed states that respond to the needs of their people, reduce widespread poverty and conduct themselves responsibly in the international system.'.
(14) Economic growth and poverty reduction are more successful in countries that invest in the people, rule justly, and promote economic freedom. These principles have become the core of several development programs of the United States Government, such as the Millennium Challenge Account.

SEC. 3. DECLARATION OF POLICY.

It is the policy of the United States to promote the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.

SEC. 4. REQUIREMENT TO DEVELOP COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY.

(a) Strategy- The President, acting through the Secretary of State, and in consultation with the heads of other appropriate departments and agencies of the United States Government, international organizations, international financial institutions, the governments of developing and developed countries, United States and international nongovernmental organizations, civil society organizations, and other appropriate entities, shall develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.
(b) Content- The strategy required by subsection (a) shall include specific and measurable goals, efforts to be undertaken, benchmarks, and timetables to achieve the objectives described in subsection (a).
(c) Components- The strategy required by subsection (a) should include the following components:

(1) Continued investment or involvement in existing United States initiatives related to international poverty reduction, such as the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7601 et seq.), the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.), and trade preference programs for developing countries, such as the African Growth and Opportunity Act (19 U.S.C. 3701 et seq.).
(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) Leveraging United States trade policy where possible to enhance economic development prospects for developing countries.
(5) Coordinating efforts and working in cooperation with developed and developing countries, international organizations, and international financial institutions.
(6) Mobilizing and leveraging the participation of businesses, United States and international nongovernmental organizations, civil society, and public-private partnerships.
(7) Coordinating the goal of poverty reduction with other development goals, such as combating the spread of preventable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, increasing access to potable water and basic sanitation, reducing hunger and malnutrition, and improving access to and quality of education at all levels regardless of gender.
(8) Integrating principles of sustainable development and entrepreneurship into policies and programs.
(d) Reports-

(1) INITIAL REPORT-

(A) IN GENERAL- Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President, acting through the Secretary of State, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the strategy required under subsection (a).
(B) CONTENT- The report required under subparagraph (A) shall include the following elements:

(i) A description of the strategy required under subsection (a).
(ii) An evaluation, to the extent possible, both proportionate and absolute, of the contributions provided by the United States and other national and international actors in achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.
(iii) An assessment of the overall progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.
(2) SUBSEQUENT REPORTS- Not later than December 31, 2012, and December 31, 2015, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees reports on the status of the implementation of the strategy, progress made in achieving the global poverty reduction objectives described in subsection (a), and any changes to the strategy since the date of the submission of the last report.

SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.

In this Act:

(1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES- The term `appropriate congressional committees' means--

(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
(2) EXTREME GLOBAL POVERTY- The term `extreme global poverty' refers to the conditions in which individuals live on less than $1 per day, adjusted for purchasing power parity in 1993 United States dollars, according to World Bank statistics.
(3) GLOBAL POVERTY- The term `global poverty' refers to the conditions in which individuals live on less than $2 per day, adjusted for purchasing power parity in 1993 United States dollars, according to World Bank statistics.
(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).

Status: Introduced - Dec 7, 2007
Scheduled for Debate-
Voted on in Senate-
Voted on in House-
Signed by President
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Currently in Foreign Relations Committee for review.

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The House already passed their version which is basically the same bill:

H.R. 1302: Global Poverty Act of 2007To require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States 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 worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.

Bill StatusSponsor:

Rep. Adam Smith [D-WA]
Cosponsors [as of 2008-01-27]
Rep. Spencer Bachus [R-AL]Rep. Brian Baird [D-WA]Rep. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]Rep. Howard Berman [D-CA]Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]Del. Madeleine Bordallo [D-GU]Rep. Leonard Boswell [D-IA]Rep. Bruce Braley [D-IA]Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]Rep. Russ Carnahan [D-MO]Rep. Julia Carson [D-IN]Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D-MO]Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]Rep. Jim Costa [D-CA]Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]Rep. Joseph Crowley [D-NY]Rep. Norman Dicks [D-WA]Rep. Lloyd Doggett [D-TX]Rep. Michael Doyle [D-PA]Rep. Vernon Ehlers [R-MI]Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]Rep. Chaka Fattah [D-PA]Rep. Bob Filner [D-CA]Rep. Barney Frank [D-MA]Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin [D-SD]Rep. Brian Higgins [D-NY]Rep. Rubén Hinojosa [D-TX]Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]Rep. Jay Inslee [D-WA]Rep. Jesse Jackson [D-IL]Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]Rep. William Jefferson [D-LA]Rep. Eddie Johnson [D-TX]Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick [D-MI]Rep. Tom Lantos [D-CA]Rep. Rick Larsen [D-WA]Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]Rep. Jim Matheson [D-UT]Rep. Michael McCaul [R-TX]Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]Rep. James McDermott [D-WA]Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]Rep. Jerry McNerney [D-CA]Rep. Kendrick Meek [D-FL]Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]Rep. Bradley Miller [D-NC]Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]Rep. James Moran [D-VA]Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]Del. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]Rep. James Oberstar [D-MN]Rep. Edward Pastor [D-AZ]Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]Rep. David Price [D-NC]Rep. Dave Reichert [R-WA]Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R-FL]Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]Rep. Linda Sánchez [D-CA]Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA]Rep. Allyson Schwartz [D-PA]Rep. José Serrano [D-NY]Rep. Christopher Shays [R-CT]Rep. Brad Sherman [D-CA]Rep. Heath Shuler [D-NC]Rep. Albio Sires [D-NJ]Rep. Fortney Stark [D-CA]Rep. Ellen Tauscher [D-CA]Rep. Tom Udall [D-NM]Rep. Christopher Van Hollen [D-MD]Rep. Maxine Waters [D-CA]Rep. Diane Watson [D-CA]Rep. Henry Waxman [D-CA]Rep. Robert Wexler [D-FL]Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D-CA]Rep. David Wu [D-OR]


Status:
Introduced Mar 1, 2007
Scheduled for DebateJul 31, 2007
Passed House  Sep 25, 2007
Voted on in Senate-
Signed by President-

Text regarding Millennium Declaration and comments will be on on separate thread.

The UN Millennium Declaration is a "Mandate" for GLOBAL Governance.  It was signed by BJ Clinton and 149 other heads of state on Sep 8, 2000.  Barak Obama's Global Poverty Bill includes the UN Millennium Declaration.  This Declaration is loaded with a lot of UN Global language that would be a real step towards the United States losing its sovereignty to the UN.  Some specific goals in this Declaration applying to the U.S. are:  the U.S. will provide .7% of the Gross National Income to the UN, the universal disarmament and control of small arms and light weapons (elimination of the Second Amendment) and adherence to the Kyoto Treaty on Global Warming.

If Obama's Bill is signed by the President, it will be the beginning of a Global world run by the UN.  A socialist world.   Here are some other words pulled directly from the Declaration and they should make you very scared.

1.  We....reaffirm our faith in the Organization [the UN] and its Charter as indispensable foundations of a more peaceful, prosperous and just world.

2.  ...we have a collective responsibility to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity at the global level.

3.  We reaffirm our commitment to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

4.  We believe that the central challenge we face today is to ensure that globalization becomes a positive force for all the world's people.  ...only through broad and sustained efforts to create a shared future, based upon our common humanity in all its diversity, can globalization be made fully inclusive and equitable.

5.  Solidarity.  Global challenges must be managed in a way that distributes the costs and burdens fairly in accordance with basic principles of equality and social justice.  

6.  Respect for Nature.  The current unsustainable patterns of production and consumption must be changed in the interest of our future welfare and that of our descendants.

7.  We must spare no effort to free all of humanity from the threat of living on a planet irredeemably spoilt by human activities.

8.  The United Nations must play the central role in managing worldwide economic and social development.

9.  To ensure free access to information on the human genome sequence.

10.  To take measures to ensure respect for and protection of the human rights of migrants, migrant workers and their families...

11.  We will spare no efforts to make the United Nations a more effective instrument for pursuing all of these priorities...

12.  We resolve to strengthen the International Court of Justice...

13.  We solemnly reaffirm...that the United Nations is the indispensable common house of the entire human family, through which we will seek to realize our universal aspirations for peace, cooperation and development...

This is probably the most frightening bill ever proposed to the American government.  

It's so ludicrously blatantly communist and globalist that I don't even know how to react to it.  I'm tempted both to laugh and to weep at the same time.  In any other time in our history, even suggesting that such a thing could pass would have been laughable -- now, I'm not so sure.

I may have to revise downward my estimate of how long America will last as a Free-Market Democratic Republic.  I'm not even sure that this nation can still be described as a democracy.  If everyone in America were to vote "Yea" to making this nation a Despotic Communism, would you still call it a democracy just because everyone voted for it?

If everyone in America is convinced that socialism is wonderful, and votes for socialism, aren't we already a socialist State even before a single vote is cast?





I have got to get that Jonah Goldberg book!

This bill is getting closer and closer to a vote.  Please write or call your Senators regarding this bill and your Representatives regarding my two posts previous to this one.  All 3 bills are horrible legislation that will move us closer to the Marxist dream of a Global UN-run world and the United Socialist States of America.

Eyas wrote:This is probably the most frightening bill ever proposed to the American government.  

It's so ludicrously blatantly communist and globalist that I don't even know how to react to it.  I'm tempted both to laugh and to weep at the same time.  In any other time in our history, even suggesting that such a thing could pass would have been laughable -- now, I'm not so sure.

I may have to revise downward my estimate of how long America will last as a Free-Market Democratic Republic.  I'm not even sure that this nation can still be described as a democracy.  If everyone in America were to vote "Yea" to making this nation a Despotic Communism, would you still call it a democracy just because everyone voted for it?

If everyone in America is convinced that socialism is wonderful, and votes for socialism, aren't we already a socialist State even before a single vote is cast?

I have got to get that Jonah Goldberg book!

The Greeks would have considered our form of government a "polity" and not a "democracy."  If I recall properly it was a pejorative term essentially meaning "mob rule."  Our representatives have realized they can get the "mob" to vote for them again and again by promising more and more from those who have something to be redistributed.  

Of course, a few people are starting to realize that these promises never actually come to fruition.  The major question will be whether a majority of our society realize that these empty promises are in fact empty before we utterly bankrupt  and enslave and destroy ourselves to unlimited, despotic government.

From the Center for Individual Freedom:


If Senator Barack Obama has his way, U.S. taxpayers could very well be committed to spending $0.85 trillion -- much of it going to third world dictators and despots that hate America -- under the guise of fighting "global poverty."
[SIZE=10pt]In the 1960's President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty.  Now, thirty years later, [SIZE=10pt]not content with a failure to eradicate poverty on a national scale, Senator Obama and other liberals in the Senate want to duplicate that failure on a global scale [SIZE=10pt]!

[SIZE=10pt]Of course we're talking about Obama's so-called Global Poverty Act (S. 2433), which according to some conservative sources, would [SIZE=10pt]commit all of us to a stealth United Nations-inspired global tax of $845 billion over a 13-year period -- that's on top of the $300 billion per year [SIZE=10pt]the United States already shells out in foreign aid.

[SIZE=10pt]When we first alerted you to the Global Poverty Act several weeks ago, it was literally flying under the radar.  

[SIZE=10pt]In fact, the [SIZE=10pt]House of Representatives actually passed the bill on a voice vote because many Members simply weren't paying attention[SIZE=10pt].
[SIZE=10pt]According to CNS News, "the bill came attached to a mammoth 3,000-page piece of legislation at the end of the legislative session, meaning that congressmen barely had time to even read the overall legislation before voting on the bill -- and there was no way to target specific line items."

[SIZE=10pt]Then you took action!  [SIZE=10pt]Your calls and Blast Faxes made a huge difference[SIZE=10pt] and drove this stealth United Nations-inspired give away out into the open.  Make no mistake, the Global Poverty Act is firmly in the crosshairs and [SIZE=10pt]YOU deserve a great deal of the credit for getting this ball rolling[SIZE=10pt].

[SIZE=10pt]And now that you've gotten the attention of your elected officials, it's time to finish the job.

[SIZE=10pt]We simply cannot rest on our laurels and hope to coast to victory on this one... it's too important!
[CENTER ALIGN=CENTER][SIZE=10pt]Use the hyperlink below to send your 50 urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush and each and every one of the Republican Members of the United States Senate.[/CENTER ALIGN]
[CENTER ALIGN=CENTER][SIZE=10pt]Let them know in no uncertain terms that you are watching and you will not tolerate massive United Nations-inspired give aways that are passed in the dark of night -- or in broad daylight for that matter. Tell them that putting U.S. taxpayers on the road to give billions to petty tyrants and dictators is NOT a solution to poverty.[/CENTER ALIGN]
[CENTER ALIGN=CENTER][SIZE=10pt]Don't let our legislators think this matter has blown over.  Let them know that you are still watching.  This bill can still come up for a vote at any time.  Demand that our conservative legislators do whatever it takes -- a filibuster if necessary -- to stop this bill dead in its tracks.[/CENTER ALIGN]
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[CENTER ALIGN=CENTER]Liberal Half Truths![/CENTER ALIGN]

[SIZE=10pt]Once the stench of this horrendous bill hit the open air, the liberal blogosphere went into overdrive.  They tried to convince you that this was all just some strange conspiracy theory.
[SIZE=10pt]According to the George Soros-funded website Media Matters:
[SIZE=10pt]"But the bill would not 'require America to pay tax to the U.N.' ... the bill would establish no specific funding source; it would not commit the United States to any targeted level of spending."

[SIZE=10pt]Of course, Media Matters was only telling part of the story...

[SIZE=10pt]They are right about one thing: the Global Poverty Act gives no specific figures.
[SIZE=10pt]It does, however, direct the President to implement a strategy to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goal.

[SIZE=10pt]Specifically, the Global Poverty Act states that the President and the Secretary of State:
[SIZE=10pt]"[S]hall develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further... the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal."

[SIZE=10pt]And just what is this Millennium Development Goal?
[SIZE=10pt]WorldNetDaily.com[SIZE=10pt] quotes Cliff Kincaid with Accuracy in Media who has some expertise in the matter:
[SIZE=10pt]"The bill defines the term 'Millennium Development Goals' as the goals set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration..."

[SIZE=10pt]Incidentally, according to Kincaid, the United Nations Millennium Declaration goes further:
[SIZE=10pt]"In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that declaration commits nations to banning 'small arms and light weapons' and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child."

[SIZE=10pt]But that's not all.  According to the same article:
[SIZE=10pt]"Those U.N. protocols would make U.S. law on issues ranging from the 2nd Amendment to energy usage and parental rights all subservient to United Nations whims.
[SIZE=10pt]"[T]he legislation, if approved, dedicates 0.7 percent of the U.S. gross national product to foreign aid, which over 13 years... would amount to $845 billion 'over and above what the U.S. already spends.'"

[SIZE=10pt]Read enough?
[CENTER ALIGN=CENTER][SIZE=10pt]Use the hyperlink below to send your 50 urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush and each and every one of the Republican Members of the United States Senate.[/CENTER ALIGN]
[CENTER ALIGN=CENTER][SIZE=10pt]Let them know in no uncertain terms that you are watching and you will not tolerate massive United Nations-inspired give aways that are passed in the dark of night -- or in broad daylight for that matter. Tell them that putting U.S. taxpayers on the road to give billions to petty tyrants and dictators is NOT a solution to poverty.[/CENTER ALIGN]
[CENTER ALIGN=CENTER][SIZE=10pt]Don't let our legislators think this matter has blown over.  Let them know that you are still watching.  This bill can still come up for a vote at any time.  Demand that our conservative legislators do whatever it takes -- a filibuster if necessary -- to stop this bill dead in its tracks.[/CENTER ALIGN]
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[CENTER ALIGN=CENTER]Are Liberals Really Not Being Square With the American People?[/CENTER ALIGN]

[SIZE=10pt]Why would the Soros-funded Media Matters fight opposition to Obama's United Nations-inspired Global Poverty Act?  

[SIZE=10pt]Maybe it's because Soros has dedicated $50 million to the advancement of the Millennium Goals, and the fact that he has dedicated his life to advancing socialism world-wide (which the Global Poverty Act would certainly help accomplish).  Could that be factoring into Media Matters' equation?

[SIZE=10pt]Soros himself has stated:
[SIZE=10pt]"The untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market values into all areas of life, is endangering our open and democratic society."

[SIZE=10pt]Then there's Senator Joseph Biden, who rushed the Global Poverty Act out of committee and issued a report that stated: "implementing S. 2433 would cost less than $1 million per year..."
[SIZE=10pt]Huh?  How can that be?  

[SIZE=10pt]Once again, the bill specifically states that the President and the Secretary of State:

"[S]hall develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further... the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal."

[SIZE=10pt]Developing and implementing a strategy[SIZE=10pt] SHOULD cost under a million dollars a year.

[SIZE=10pt]The unanswered question... the other shoe just waiting to be dropped is... how much will it cost us to ACTUALLY ACT upon that strategy once we are committed?

[SIZE=10pt]Cliff Kincaid believes the answer is $845 billion, care of American taxpayers like you and me, over a 13-year period -- on top of the $300 billion per year we already spend on foreign aid!

[SIZE=10pt]If liberals really believe Kincaid is wrong about Senator Obama's Global Poverty Act, then why don't they stop parsing and simply challenge his figures?
[SIZE=10pt]Then again, why give Kincaid the courtesy of a serious and reasonable response... maybe he (and you and I for that matter) is just, as Obama so aptly put it, one of those "small-town people who cling to God, guns and hostility toward immigrants to cope with their bitterness... ."

[SIZE=10pt]You blew the whistle on the Global Poverty Act.  Now let's shut the door once and for all!
[CENTER ALIGN=CENTER][SIZE=10pt]Use the hyperlink below to send your 50 urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush and each and every one of the Republican Members of the United States Senate.[/CENTER ALIGN]
[CENTER ALIGN=CENTER][SIZE=10pt]Let them know in no uncertain terms that you are watching and you will not tolerate massive United Nations-inspired give aways that are passed in the dark of night -- or in broad daylight for that matter. Tell them that putting U.S. taxpayers on the road to give billions to petty tyrants and dictators is NOT a solution to poverty.[/CENTER ALIGN]
[CENTER ALIGN=CENTER][SIZE=10pt]Don't let our legislators think this matter has blown over.  Let them know that you are still watching.  This bill can still come up for a vote at any time.  Demand that our conservative legislators do whatever it takes -- a filibuster if necessary -- to stop this bill dead in its tracks.[/CENTER ALIGN]
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[CENTER ALIGN=CENTER]It Gets Worse![/CENTER ALIGN]

[SIZE=10pt]Just for laughs, here are some additional provisions of the Millennium [SIZE=10pt]Development Goal[SIZE=10pt]:
[SIZE=10pt]a "currency transfer tax," that is, a tax imposed on companies and individuals who must exchange dollars for foreign currency;
[SIZE=10pt]a "tax on the rental value of land and natural resources";  
[SIZE=10pt]a "royalty on worldwide fossil energy projection -- oil, natural gas, coal";
[SIZE=10pt]"fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on the carbon content of fuels."
[SIZE=10pt]a "standing peace force," meaning a standing United Nations army;
[SIZE=10pt]a "UN arms register of all small arms and light weapons," the beginning of the end of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution;
[SIZE=10pt]the "eradication of poverty" by the "redistribution [of] wealth and land" -- How do you suppose the United Nations expects to "redistribute" the land and the wealth?  And what country do you think the third-world majority will go after first?[SIZE=10pt]
[SIZE=10pt]cancellation of "the debts of developing countries,"
[SIZE=10pt]"a fair distribution of the earth's resources."
[SIZE=10pt]and "political control of the global economy."

[SIZE=10pt]In other words, it's a blueprint for a world government, inspired by and possibly owned and operated by the United Nations.

[SIZE=10pt]One thing is clear: the Millennium Development Goal is a dagger aimed at the heart of America.

[SIZE=10pt]Let's kill this bill once and for all... RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW!  
[CENTER ALIGN=CENTER][SIZE=10pt]Use the hyperlink below to send your 50 urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush and each and every one of the Republican Members of the United States Senate.[/CENTER ALIGN]
[CENTER ALIGN=CENTER][SIZE=10pt]Let them know in no uncertain terms that you are watching and you will not tolerate massive United Nations-inspired give aways that are passed in the dark of night -- or in broad daylight for that matter. Tell them that putting U.S. taxpayers on the road to give billions to petty tyrants and dictators is NOT a solution to poverty.[/CENTER ALIGN]
[CENTER ALIGN=CENTER][SIZE=10pt]Don't let our legislators think this matter has blown over.  Let them know that you are still watching.  This bill can still come up for a vote at any time.  Demand that our conservative legislators do whatever it takes -- a filibuster if necessary -- to stop this bill dead in its tracks.[/CENTER ALIGN]
[CENTER ALIGN=CENTER][SIZE=10pt][url][U]http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/globalpovertyactiii.html[/url][/U][/CENTER ALIGN]

Obama's Global Poverty Act mandates our money goes straight to the UN to counter Global Poverty and that's over and above what we already send to individual countries.  We all know how reputable the UN is.    In addition, the bill encompasses the Milllenium Declaration which imposes UN gun control on the United States of America.  Obama says he supports the 2nd Amendment but he's using slippery words to say he's in favor of the right to own and bear arms.  He has never voted in favor of anything to do with the 2nd Amendment. Please call or email your Reps and Sens and tell them we are watching and the Global Poverty Act is not acceptable. This message is from the Center for Individual Freedom:

[SIZE=10pt]According to Lee Cary with the conservative blog AmericanThinker.com, Senator Barack Obama's $845 billion United Nations-inspired give away of your hard-earned money may be coming up for a vote SOON:
[SIZE=10pt]"The Global Poverty Act of 2007 (S.2433) is coming up for a Senate vote sometime after the July 4 recess, according the office of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Once Harry Reid and the Democrat leadership put it on the calendar, we could have as little as a week to prepare for the vote." [SIZE=10pt][Emphasis Mine]
[SIZE=10pt]Cary wrote that report just days ago on June 26th. And while we have not yet been able to confirm his report, we HAVE seen a renewed SURGE of activity by groups on the far-Left to push a vote on the Global Poverty Act.
[SIZE=10pt]On June 25th, Cliff Kincaid wrote of these efforts in an article titled: "Proud Pagan Witch Backs Obama's Poverty Bill."
[SIZE=10pt]Kincaid wrote:
[SIZE=10pt]"While Senator Barack Obama struggles to keep the public in the dark about the nature of his pro-U.N. Global Poverty Act, a recent 'Bay Area Interfaith Leaders' Luncheon' was held to lobby for Senate passage of the bill, whose cost has been estimated at $845 billion."

[SIZE=10pt]But that's not all.  
[SIZE=10pt]In addition to this gathering of far-Left "religious leaders" in the San Francisco area, Kincaid also shared a letter he received from a concerned parent in New York which could be an indication that a wide-spread campaign is taking place throughout the country:
[SIZE=10pt]"Meanwhile, a concerned parent alerted us to the fact that a Christian preschool in Long Island, New York was handing out a coloring page for children which included a plea for Congress to pass Obama's Global Poverty Act. 'Dear Parents,' said the letter that was sent home. 'We would like to join efforts with the congregation of St. David's to stop world hunger. You and your child can help by coloring and signing the enclosed sheet. This sheet will be sent along with many others to our representatives in Washington..."

[SIZE=10pt]"The [enclosed] sheet said 'Dear Senator: At Preschool, I learned to thank God for the food I eat. I also collect coins to help those who don't have enough. Today, I ask you to help, too, with more and better aid for the world's poorest countries. We want Congress to pass the Global Poverty Act. Please cosponsor S. 2433. Thank you.' The child's name and age were supposed to be filled in.
[SIZE=10pt]As we have stated before, eradicating global poverty is a noble goal.  But if history is any guide, we know that just throwing the money of hard-working Americans at the problem does not work.
[SIZE=10pt]In fact, it is unlikely that foreign aid would ever make it to the actual struggling people of recipient third world countries.  Rather, it will more likely end up lining the pockets of those nations' corrupt leaders.

[SIZE=10pt]And, enlisting children in the effort to pass the Global Poverty Act is simply sick!

Is it possible that our elected officials are gearing up to pass the Global Poverty Act while our backs are turned... while they think we are distracted by the holiday?

[SIZE=10pt]If so, we can't let that happen.  WE MUST LET THEM KNOW -- RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW -- THAT WE ARE WATCHING!

That bill sucks.

I hate disease free kids with full bellies.
I hate having allies like those in the UN

Why is it that we can spend trillions on WAR then cry like babies every time we propose spending a penny on a hungry kid living in filth ?? I am sure Jesus would approve.

Just because the money is not going to corporate welfare does not mean we should dismiss it out of hand.  MAybe if we did show what this country is about (remember the Bibles lessons that we suposedly were founded on) we could get back to our leadership role in the world and regain a bit of that respect that Bush has flushed down the toilet of incompetance.

Wow, you aren't too bright are you?  Just throw money at the problem and hope it goes away, right?  That's all that would be accomplished.  The money that we would be distributing would go straight into the pockets of despotic dictators.  We see it happen every day.  Somalia, Myanmar, N. Korea, etc.  The money and aid doesn't get to the people unless we are there to distribute it.  The U.N. has proven themselves to be inept at doing anything except claiming responsibility for others' hard work.

jokeness wrote:Wow, you aren't too bright are you?  Just throw money at the problem and hope it goes away, right?  That's all that would be accomplished.  The money that we would be distributing would go straight into the pockets of despotic dictators.  We see it happen every day.  Somalia, Myanmar, N. Korea, etc.  The money and aid doesn't get to the people unless we are there to distribute it.  The U.N. has proven themselves to be inept at doing anything except claiming responsibility for others' hard work.

How's the kool aide???

I know feeding poor kids  and getting them proper healthcare is considered throwing money away in your mind, but some here in America prefer throwing money at them instead of at billion dollar corporations and war profiteers.

My mommy says i am very bright for my age.



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