This is just in from Sen. Coburn’s office. Obama has authored a
bill, and it is now in the Senate, to give the UN .7% of our GNP to be used to
feed hungry 3rd worlders, AND to use UN force to disarm you and me and all gun
owners. No one in the media has brought this to the attention of the general
sheeple out here.
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 12:48 PM
Subject: RE: Obama’s bill S2433 passed the committee
and going to the Senate
Senator Coburn is blocking this bill.
Patrick Guinn
Obama’s bill S2433 would require the U.S. to initially direct .7 percent of
our GNP into the United Nations coffers for distribution as they see fit, for
"food" to third world nations. Under earlier agreements this would evolve into a
national tax on the U.S. with the UN attempting to levy this on all first world
nations.
The U.N. would have the power to increase this rate of taxation.
The U.S. would be required to surrender some of its sovereignty over
foreign aid by putting it under UN control. The bill would force the U.S. to
sign onto the U.N.’s Millennium Declaration, which would commit
us not only to "banning small arms and light weapons" but also to adhere to the
International Criminal Court Treaty and the Kyoto Protocol.
Detailed Summary
Global Poverty Act of 2007 - Directs the President, through the Secretary
of State, to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the U.S.
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,
between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.
Requires the strategy to contain specific and measurable goals and to
consist of specified components, including:
(1) continued investment or involvement in existing U.S. initiatives
related to international poverty reduction and trade preference programs for
developing countries;
(2) improving the effectiveness of development assistance and making
available additional overall United States assistance levels as appropriate;
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(3) enhancing and expanding debt relief as appropriate;
(4) mobilizing and leveraging the participation of businesses and
public-private partnerships;
(5) coordinating the goal of poverty reduction with other internationally
recognized Millennium Development Goals; and
(6) integrating principles of sustainable development and entrepreneurship
into policies and programs.
Sets forth specified reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary of State
to designate a coordinator who will have primary responsibility for overseeing
and drafting the reports, as well as responsibility for helping to implement
recommendations contained in the reports.<br>
Defines specified terms.
Status of the Legislation
Latest Major Action: 4/24/2008: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under
General Orders. Calendar No. 718.
More on Barack Obama’s S.2433 : Global Poverty Act
We know for a fact that this bill will cost America $845 billion above and
beyond what America already spends on global aid in the next
thirteen years. America will be locked in to giving .7 percent of the U.S. gross
national product. That in itself is scary enough, but there is way more to
Obama’s bill. It also locks us into United Nations Millennium Summit. Cliff
Kincaid from Accuracy in Media is all over this bill. He
writes-(Underlined by me)
The bill institutes the United Nations Millennium Summit goals as the
benchmarks for U.S. spending.
"It is time the United States makes it a priority of our foreign policy to
meet this goal and help those who are struggling day to day," a statement issued
by supporters, including Obama, said.
Specifically, it would "declare" that the official U.S. policy is to
eliminate global poverty, that the president is "required" to "develop and
implement" a strategy to reach that goal and requires that the U.S. efforts be
"specific and measurable."
Kincaid said that after cutting through all of the honorable-sounding goals
in the plan, the bottom line is that the legislation would mandate the 0.7
percent of the U.S. GNP as "official development assistance."
"In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that (U.N.) 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 of Biological Diversity, the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and
the Convention of the Rights of the Child," he said.
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.
Kincaid also reported Jeffrey Sachs, who runs the "Millennium Project,"
confirms a U.N. plan to force the U.S. to pay 0.7 percent of GNP would add about
$65 billion a year to what the U.S. already donates overseas.
And the only way to raise that funding, Sachs confirms, "is through a
global tax, preferably on carbon-emitting fossil fuels," Kincaid
writes.