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Global Poverty Act????????????????????

peonpeon Member Posts: 2,644 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited November 2008 in General Discussion
C&P from email:

We are in for change alright!
Subject: Senate Bill 2433
I checked it out. Almost everything has to be validated now. It's real. The more you research it - from the liberal and conservative side - it stinks! Have we really become this hood winked?


Check it out for your self: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2433/text


SENATE BILL S. 2433 THE GLOBAL POVERTY ACT



According to David Bossie, President of the group 'Citizens United for American Sovereignty', based out of Merrifield Virginia , website: http://www.citizensunited.org/ the above- mentioned Senate Bill (S. 2433) is a piece of legislation in the works that all Americans need to know about and know now!

This bill, sponsored by none other than Sen. Barack Obama, with the backing of Joe Biden on the Foreign Relations Committee, and liberal democrats in Congress, is nothing short of a massive giveaway of American wealth around the world, and a betrayal of the public trust, because, if passed, this bill would give over many aspects of our sovereignty to the United Nations.

The noble sounding name of this bill, 'The Global Poverty Act' is actually a Global Tax, payable to the United Nations, that will be required of all American taxpayers. If passed in the Senate, the House has already passed it, this bill would require the U.S. to increase our foreign aid by $65 BILLION per year, or $845 BILLION over the next 13 years! That's on top of the billions of dollars in foreign aid we already pay out!

In addition to the economic burdens this potential law would place on our precarious economy, the bill, if passed in the Senate, would also endanger our constitutionally protected rights and freedoms by obligating us to meet certain United Nations mandates.

According to Senator Obama, we should establish these United Nations' goals as benchmarks for U.S. spending. What are they?

n The creation of a U.N. International Criminal Court having the power to try and convict American citizens and soldiers without any protection from the U.S. Constitution.

n A standing United Nations Army forcing U.S. soldiers to serve under U.N. command.

n A Gun Ban on all small arms and light weapons --which would repeal our Second Amendment right to bear arms.

n The ratification of the ' Kyoto ' global warming treaty and numerous other anti-American measures.

Recently, the Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Relations (where Sen. Joe Biden sits) approved this plan by a voice vote without any discussion! Why all the secrecy? If Senators Obama and Biden are so proud of this legislation, then why don't they bring it out into the light of day and let the American people have a look at it instead of hiding it behind closed doors and sneaking it through Congress for late night votes.

It may be only a matter of time before this dangerous legislation reaches a floor vote in the full body of the Senate.

Please write or call, email your representatives, the White House, the media, or anyone you think will listen, and express your opinions regarding this Global Tax giveaway and betrayal of the American people at a time when our nation and our people are already heavily burdened with the threats to our freedoms and economic prosperity.

Please send this email to as many folks out there in your networks as you can. And ASAP!

Thank you.

Comments

  • nemesisenforcernemesisenforcer Member Posts: 10,513 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Contact your congressmen and senators. NOW.
  • spryorspryor Member Posts: 9,155
    edited November -1
  • Rocky4windsRocky4winds Member Posts: 760 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Unbelievable. Senator Obama actually introduced legislation? Whodathunkit. Oh wait, it says he sponsored it. Okay, so he still is doing nothing in the Senate for anybody.
  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This was introduced for the last session, which is done for the year.
    Watch for it (and WORSE) to be introduced next year.
  • Marc1301Marc1301 Member Posts: 31,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    See my sig line to get my feelings on this.
    They are gonna keep screwing around until folks are finally going to pop a gasket,......at least the ones that pay taxes, and aren't on welfare.[}:)]
    "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." - William Shatner
  • lpaalplpaalp Member Posts: 951 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The bill reads "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."

    To "develop ans implement a strategy" is a pretty grand description which requires little. Don't know where the 'Citizens United' found the specifics mentioned - don't see it in the bill (?).
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