Sir, I Vote Nay
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Decision Eh, UN-Brand Compost
Barack Obama, in a desperate bid for actual accomplishment, is sponsoring this ludicrous bit of legislation:
A nice-sounding bill called the “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. The bill, which has the support of many liberal religious groups, makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations.
As I explained just a few moments ago to the nice young men answering the phones for Sens. Martinez and Nelson, the UN is incapable of managing its way out of a wet paper sack, and in no way should be placed in charge of any currency more liquid than Monopoly money.
Feel free to find your own Senators and voice your opinions to their nice phone-answering young men. You can just hear the clean-cut ooze down the line, I tell you.
For extra-bonus badness points, secreted in this bit of junk are these tasty nuggets:
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.
Ah, you crazy, idealstic kids. You really know nothing of human nature at all, do you.
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February 14th, 2008
DO NOT WANT!
February 14th, 2008
Indeed, sir.
February 14th, 2008
The UN is a corrupt, useless waste of money, resources and real estate; the sooner it crashes and burns the better.
February 14th, 2008
2008 is shaping up like 1976 in so many ways.
Stagflation, high oil prices, and a President who is a genuine leftist.
An Obama Presidency will ensure GOP dominance for another generation, starting in 2012.
February 14th, 2008
[...] able to claim an actual accomplishment (ask his supporters), Obama is supporting what can become a poorly-constructed global tax plan. Here’s the gist: A nice-sounding bill called the “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by [...]
February 14th, 2008
The UN should not crash and burn. The UN gives those so inclined a place to build their sandcastles, and away from any sharp pointy objects. If the UN goes away, it will be replaced, and it may take a decade to file down the teeth that the new organization will be given.
February 14th, 2008
“the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women”
So he wants to declare war against Islam?
February 14th, 2008
Rather than “Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women”, how about for starters just…
…enslavement, stonings, genital mutilation, “honor” killings and forced marriages.
Mmm-kay?
February 14th, 2008
GK:
So true…Nixon (now George W Bush) wasn’t a libertarian Republican, either. Wow…(smacks head)…we’re repeating history. You’re probably right…Obama wins…horrible 4 years (single term presidency)…perhaps Fred (or someone like him) runs in 2012.
February 14th, 2008
“So he wants to declare war against Islam”
War, no! Rather he’ll also propose “the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of War.
It’s done by the new, modern, method: blah… blah…
February 14th, 2008
I think the assumption that Obama will win is a stretch. This type of bill is a gift to Hillary and especially the McCain Campaign. To this point he has floated by on platitudes. As the months wear on and more of this is exposed more of America will see how radical, and dangerous, he is.
February 14th, 2008
[...] We now know what Obamassiah wants to do with our money – give it away to the world [...]
February 14th, 2008
But this is not BS. It’s not “give money to poor people BECAUSE the sky is falling.” It’s like Bush Jr.s MASSIVE government investment in “dealing with HIV/AIDS” in Africa. Cost as much as the Space Station. A billion dollars vs. a country (USA) with a few million? That’s ten bucks a head.
Foreign aid, and he throws a few hat tips to the Global Warming idiots? Fine with me. Let’s call a spade a spade.
Welfare for the World.
Yes, we did inherit the best scientists and entrepreneurs and work ethic religious types, in a world ALMOST no longer tipped over.
Obama, since any American who drives a car to visit relatives, realizes that shanty town shacks in Florida have both satellite dishes and free electricity (tapped into the local light pole) and flat screen TVs (to save space), and welfare payments due to having dirt floors, realizes that dirt floors, world–wide, are often full of rat sh*t.
Can he be the new FDR of the USA? No. Is the “global village” upon us? Yes. So he’s politicking to the whole wide world. He’s not some old or *mere* skirt chaser populist like “we are the president” second wife that Bill would become.
Obama also suggested decriminalizing pot, which (look it up) makes you drive *safer* yet currently holds 1/3 of black males in jail. Bush Jr. let the DEA die a slow death by offering only non-inflation-adjusted funding. Clinton did nothing.
Have you EVER heard Obama go on a riff about Global Warming as the *key* issue of our day, of our generation? No.
Does he have anger issues? You say yes? I ask: compared to who?
“At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.” – George Orwell
February 14th, 2008
I’ve got some thoughts on it here.
February 15th, 2008
Well, I just went and read the text of the bill as it left the House, and I don’t see any commitments or directives to slave spending to UN dictates. I also went and read the National Ledger piece quoted above, and I found the card trick.
The bill references the UN Millennium Development Goals, which in turn contains all sorts of completely unacceptable goals such as are quoted above. But in no way does the bill mandate or even advocate those other goals be pursued, nor does it mandate any particular methods (e.g., no spending targets or slaving of spending to UN levels.) The language is simply not there.
The only mandates are to develop a plan to address one of the goals of the UN MDG, specifically, the global poverty goal… and subsequently, to report on the execution of that plan. Those requirements are in section four of the text.
February 15th, 2008
(The govtrack site was down yesterday when I tried to view the bill verbiage.)
Here it is.
Stated intent:
Close enough, as they say, for government work. The UN belongs nowhere near our money, even by suggestion (especially with a socialist at the helm of the country), and Obama is still desperately searching for something to which he can pin his name…this bill has been around in the same form since 2005.
February 15th, 2008
I’m no fan of the UN either, but claiming that this bill has anything to do with Kyoto, gun control, the ICC (all of which I oppose) or any of the other issues mentioned in the second quote from the main article is misleading.
February 15th, 2008
Yes, that is what happens when you quote a biased source.
However. The summary says this:
And in the definitions of the bill:
Now, it might be your argument that the Summary is cherry-picking from the Millenium Development Goals, but the way it is written leaves open the possiblity that the UN could demand the other items from us. Now, we know the UN has the relative power of a AAA battery, but I’d like to just avoid the entire situation.
February 15th, 2008
[...] In an election, a newspaper’s job is to inform its readers so those readers can make an informed decision on Election Day. The Post has tried to do that by giving front-page coverage to a major speech by a major candidate, and then not bothered to provide the information voters need to decide how to vote. (For example, it might be nice for the Post to mention these policies) [...]
February 15th, 2008
Yes, my argument is exactly that. The bill refers to the Goals in the definition, then mandates a plan to achieve exactly one of them, and precisely defines which one.
No possible reading of that bill produces any other meaning.
February 15th, 2008
The verbiage is still unacceptably vague. End of argument.
February 15th, 2008
Mr. and MRS. america, there is nothing you can do about this. You can write to any REP. OR SEN.the mman or women don’t give a dam about you,your children your dog or cat.You mr. and mrs. america. You are nothing but the road to your bank accout the street to your pocket.They will take your money and they will spend it as they dam well please.Tell us what are you going to do about it. NOTHING
March 3rd, 2008
this barack bomb bill done out of desperation to make a name for the campane, because he never did anything in the senate but go along to get along Tell me did you ever hear of obama before he became a candidate . Go help us if he makes it
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