The Global Poverty Act

I've done my part gang,

Here's what I sent to my Senator with the kind permission of a SH author's comment...
The honorable Joe Biden,

This following web log issue has recently come to my attention that I am vehemently opposed to.

“SENATE BILL 2433 – GLOBAL POVERTY ACT OF 2007

“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.

Senator Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was trying to rush Obama's 'Global Poverty Act' (S. 2433) through his committee without hearings. The legislation would commit the US to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the US already spends," on foreign aid. "It was scheduled for a Thursday vote but was moved up a day, to Wednesday, and rushed through by voice vote. Conservative Senators have now put a 'hold' on the legislation, in order to prevent it from being rushed to the floor for a full Senate vote." The House passed this bill in September. It's now getting rushed through the committee in the Senate, to soak the US taxpayers again to fund global, liberal, feel-good garbage legislation.

Now, the bill has defined the term millennium development goals as the goals set out in the declaration given by the United Nations. Just so you know, those Millennia’s goals not only care about poor starving children, there's other ideas in there as well. For instance, the declaration commits nations to ban small arms and weapons, ratifying a series of treaties including the International Criminal Court treaty, the Kyoto protocol, the Convention on Biological Diversity.

All this comes from the candidate who says we should be helping Americans first?”

Let's see if I get this correctly...
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

First question: Why is this bill allowed to see the light of day when it is clearly Unconstitutional?
Second question: Why are you trying to rush this bill through without hearings?

From Article I
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;"

I don't see anything in here where my tax dollars are supposed to go anywhere but HERE. This bill is unconstitutional!

This ass finished 3rd from the bottom in his class he couldnt get a big time lawyers job .He is a front man for tri-lateral commission these world and bank comments and lack of understanding the world bank is tighting or loans now he aproving of world poverty act great clam to be a great special politican .he wouldnt make a pimple on hillarys ass

I think this is possibly one of the most stupidist things that America could do right now. We have people that are losing their homes, losing their jobs, and the economy is in the tank with all the issues with prices on oil. When it costs more to go to work than it does to stay home and draw welfare, then you know America is in the tank. This is crazy....then we have a complete city that is still not back to functionion totally. It took Brad Pitt to go to NOLA to bring it back. Pretty sad.

Barack has been pushing this bill...The main reasons to object to this bill is the tremendous cost over $800billion dollars.. that we would have to commit to.. AND BESIDES THAT.. this bill has attached other agendas.. such a Gun CONTROL and the right of foreign powers to have influence over our constitution and our rights and freedoms.. WE NEED TO SEND EMAILS TO OUR REPS AND SENATORS TO VOTE NO ON THIS BILL.. WE NEED TO DO THIS NOW.. OR DO PETITIONS TO SAY NO.. EVEN BETTER.

Thanks Sunshine. You are right. The Dems are going to try to slip this one right by us. This is a Jimmy Carter original so that says a lot about the bill right there. I am going to do a search on the Internet on the issue. There might already be a petition started.

We can send letters until the cows come home, sunshine and they live in their glass castles, it has very little if any effect on them at all. They live in a totally different world than the rest of us do.

For some reason, I am not able to go to the web site that I have posted. I was able to last night. The article said that there would be approximately 7% of our income taken from us due to the Global Poverty Act. I believe that we need to have taxes in order to pay for war, schools, and needed government programs, but what Obama and his puppet masters propose in tax increases are much greater then Hillary Clinton proposed. Obama leans too far to the left and has Marxist ideologies.

KARA.. THIS IS PART OF THE PLAN OF GEORGE SOROS.. global government of which he would be king.. and Obama is his puppet.. the gun control is a pet project of Soros cause he wants to take over the U.S. and our constitutional rights and freedoms.. If we are disarmed (with the help of Obama) then he can easier do that. WE NEED TO VOTE NO ON THIS BILL.. Thanks for the post Kara..

You are right on about that, sunshine. You have been posting that for a long time and it is slowly coming to just that. I have a friend that is a Mortgage officer for a large bank. He said today that we are going into a depression...America's better days are behind us because the Euro has taken over the American dollar....oil is based on the American dollar but it is going to be changed to the Euro. We are basically screwed if Obama gets into office.

Kara..I found my original post on this a few months ago.. taken from the site that was available then.. here it is ..:

Congress is proposing, in Barack Obama's Global Poverty Act (S.2433, based on H.R. 1302, passed by the House September 25, 2007), that Americans be delivered into a state of indentured servitude as laborers for the United Nations. Perhaps "indentured servitude" is too kind a term, for as horrendous a condition as it is, there is usually a time limit to such servitude. Slavery would be the more accurate term in this instance, for what Congress is considering is servitude by Americans in perpetuity, in exchange for nothing but the privilege of laboring to "save" the world without thanks or reward, of filling the alleged needs of others, of performing unlimited "community service" for the offense of merely existing.

The not-so-peculiar and odd thing about H.R. 1302 was that it passed the House by voice vote. This is a stratagem adopted by legislators who fear that a bill is so outrageous that it is better that no record be kept of those who endorsed it. S.2433 was passed from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the same manner - by voice vote, without public hearings, to protect the identities of the guilty. It will probably be introduced to the Senate for a similar, anonymous voice vote -- by Harry Reid.

There is a double irony in this behavior. First, S.2433 is a bipartisan-sponsored bill. This underscores the fact that there is no fundamental difference between the Democratic and Republican Parties. Second, it is a piece of legislation which, given the altruist, collectivist premises behind it, one would have thought its creators should have trumpeted boastfully. But it is being handled by corrupt, guilty, fearful sneaks who haven't the courage of their own malice.

It reminds one of the scene in Atlas Shrugged, when James Taggart pulls down a window blind to obliterate the sight of the Washington Monument, just as he and government officials decide to decree a moratorium on brains. The proper American response to this evil and to its sponsors and supporters, in Congress and in the U.N., should be Dagny Taggart's when she learns of it: "I won't work as a slave or as a slave-driver." The bill's co-sponsor is Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee. Its other co-sponsors are Senators Joseph Biden, Maria Cantwell, Chris Dodd, Dick Durbin, Russ Feingold, Dianne Feinstein, Charles Hagel, and Robert Mendez, all Democrats.

The bill was the subject of a strong editorial in Investor's Business Daily of February 28, 2008, "Obama's 0.7% Solution For Poverty Gets Pass from Senate Republicans." According to IBD, the bipartisan bill would require the president "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 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."

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.

The Millennium declaration, reports IBD, also calls for a "currency transfer tax," a "tax on the rental value of land and natural resources," a "royalty on worldwide fossil energy production - oil, natural gas, coal," "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."

The U.N. has assumed that it governs the earth, and wishes to penalize the most productive country on it for, well, being the most productive. If you never quite understood the nature and purpose of the "unification" and "global amity" plans described by Rand in Atlas Shrugged, this plan is its real world counterpart. In practical terms, the Millennium declaration is a prescription for not only perpetuating the "global poverty" it purports to eradicate, but also for impoverishing everyone, and for perpetuating that condition, as well.

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.? If it has, by what authority? Note that the wording of the Obama bill would require "the president to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy" -- which assumes that the office of president is just another mode of tyranny or arbitrary power, no different from the "presidency" of any random tin pot dictatorship or regime.

There is some logic to their premise. After all, the U.S. has withheld moral judgment of every one of those countries. Long, long ago, the U.S. should have won World War II, but not participated in the formation of an organization that admitted dictatorships and other tyrannical regimes for the purpose of "peace." Long ago, the U.S. should have withdrawn from that organization, and evicted its headquarters from this country's soil.

But it maintains its sanction of that organization, and has paid the price for it every since. Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution states: "Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."

It would be interesting to see if this definition could be applied to the actions of Senators Obama, Lugar, Reid and the rest of the supporters of S. 2433 (and also the sponsors and supporters of H.R. 1302). Given that the U.N. has never disguised its hostility for the U.S., and that the enemies of the U.S. are legion in the U.N.'s membership, would passage of this bill by Congress constitute giving "aid and comfort" to our enemies, and "adhering" to their purposes and ends? For that is what the bill amounts to: giving our enemies the right to conquer, loot, and subjugate this country and its citizens.

Are we not already burdened by our own lords and masters of "social policy" and "redistribution" in Washington and in every state capital, without inviting the depredations of a clique of international thugs and looters? I urge those reading this to call or email his senator and urge that Barack Obama's S. 2433 be roundly defeated by a recorded roll call. If possible, communicate your outrage with the same moral indignation as Dagny Taggart's.

filibuster if necessary -- to stop this bill dead in its tracks.

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"Obama's costly, dangerous and altogether bad bill (S. 2433), which could come up in the Senate any day, is called the Global Poverty Act. It would commit U.S. taxpayers to spend 0.7 percent of our Gross Domestic Product on foreign handouts

The bill defines the term 'Millennium Development Goals' as the goals set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration..."

"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."

As for specific figures... WorldNetDaily.com reports:

"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."

"[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.'"

"The plan passed the House in 2007 'because most members didn't realize what was in it.' Congressional sponsors have been careful not to calculate the amount of foreign aid spending that it would require."

And, how would the United States pay for this $845 BILLION commitment? According to Kincaid, who published a report on the legislation; "A global tax will clearly be necessary to force American taxpayers to provide the money."

And that $845 BILLION global tax is in addition to our nation's current Foreign Aid programs, which, in 2006, cost American taxpayers about $300 BILLION!

Senator Obama's Global Poverty Act has already passed the House (many Members unfortunately voted in favor of it without carefully noting exactly what was in it) and President Bush may very well sign it!

That's why it must be stopped, and it must be stopped NOW!

Obama thinks that just because America has a check book that their is money in the account. I guess in all his education he did not learn that deficit means we are fricking broke!

The Global Poverty Act has been kicked around congress for the past 20 years - this is not new - Obama dusted it off slapped his name on it - and put it through to the right high Dems that needed to help him get it where it is - it actually gives even more money to the UN - the UN - please they cant spend the money we give them right now - this is a horrible bill

I don't understand why you think this is a bad idea. I think the sponsors of this bill are the very people in government I have the most faith in. Can you explain your opposition?

The Global Poverty Act (H.R.1302) was introduced in the House of Representatives by Reps. Adam Smith (D-WA) and Spencer Bachus (R-AL) and collected 84 cosponsors before it was passed on September 25, 2007. A companion bill (S.2433) was introduced in the Senate by Senators Barack Obama (D-IL), Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) on December 7, 2007. There are currently 16 cosponsors in the Senate, including Christopher Dodd [CT], Richard Durbin, Richard [IL], Russell Feingold [WI], Dianne Feinstein [CA], Tom Harkin [IA], Tim Johnson [SD], Richard Lugar [IN], Robert Menendez [NJ], Patty Murray [WA], Olympia Snowe [ME], Joe Biden, [DE], Gordon Smith [OR], John Kerry [MA].

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S. 2433 Global Poverty Act of 2007

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.

Other Bills with the Same Title – The list below shows legislation in this and previous sessions of Congress that had the same title as this bill. Often bills are incorporated into other omnibus bills, and you may be able to track the status of provisions of this bill by looking for an omnibus bill below. Note that bills may have multiple titles.
109th Congress: H.R. 3605Dead
110th Congress: H.R. 1302Passed House

The Global Poverty Act of 2007
Sponsor Sen. Barack Obama [D-IL]
Cosponsors [as of 2008-05-04]
Sen. Joseph Biden [D-DE]
Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]
Sen. Christopher Dodd [D-CT]
Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Sen. Russell Feingold [D-WI]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]
Sen. Charles Hagel [R-NE]
Sen. Thomas Harkin [D-IA]
Sen. Tim Johnson [D-SD]
Sen. John Kerry [D-MA]
Sen. Richard Lugar [R-IN]
Sen. Robert Menéndez [D-NJ]
Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]
Sen. Gordon Smith [R-OR]
Sen. Olympia Snowe [R-ME]

Next step of bill has been Sent to committee of foreign relations
---Bold Senators on committee and co-sponsors of bill
Joseph R. Biden -Chairman--
Richard G. Lugar -Ranking Member
Christopher J. Dodd-Connecticut
John F. Kerry-Massachusetts
Russell D. Feingold-Wisconsin
Barbara Boxer-California
Bill Nelson-Florida
Barack Obama-Illinois
Robert Menendez-New Jersey
Benjamin L. Cardin-Maryland
Robert P. Casey Jr.-Pennsylvania
Jim Webb-Virginia
Chuck Hagel-Nebraska
Norm Coleman-Minnesota
Bob Corker-Tennessee
George V. Voinovich-Ohio
Lisa Murkowski-Alaska
Jim DeMint-South Carolina
Johnny Isakson-Georgia
David Vitter-Louisiana
John Barrasso-Wyoming

This piece of legislation would impose a tax on American's which would be used to solve health care and financial problems in other nations, despite the fact that this wealth would be transferred from people who are having health care and financial problems of their own at home. Americans don’t have health care or safeguards for our own poverty stricken – would it be okay to do something to help us instead of tax us more to help others – we already give millions!!

this makes a committment of the U.S. to pay over $800 billion dollars to foreign powers to sponsor poverty and hunger for poor..(so they say)..in any case until Americans have homes and are fed we need to spend that money right here..or some of it in any case..This also has an added agenda..the right of a global government to interfere with our constitutional rights and freedoms and including taking away our guns.. this is a pet project of Soros on his way to become King of the world.. this is all terrible stuff for us and the U.S...we need to contact all our reps and sens. and let them know we want them to vote against this..

Thanks Di, The bill is going to take money from our incomes that most people in the United States do not have at this time. I believe that charity begins at home. Our country is being hijacked by the Democratic elitists.

You've got that right and then some, Kara!

Kara did not know our unemployment is at record high? While understand economy is not doing great this country still has 50% of the world wealth. I personally feel we need to take care of the poor here first and I personally do not have a problem paying higher taxes if it means helping those in true need.

Gonzo, Our country is in deep trouble with rising gas prices, which have caused food, clothing, and housing to become unaffordable. Our jobs have been outsourced, leaving many people jobless in our own country. Just this morning, in my own city, I noticed three more businesses that have closed. Our deficit is bulging out of control in the red. If we are so wealthy, then why are the middle class people almost extinct? Why is the greater percentage of people in America at borderline poverty or in poverty? Most people live from paycheck to pay check. They barely are getting by. If you people want to give our country away by voting for Barack Obama and his puppet masters, then go right ahead. Many of us have tried to warn you all.

KARA you and I will not see the wealth of this country gone in our life time. You are right about gas, jobs etc and you can blame on Neo Cons as capitalism transforms. Our leaders are selling the assets of the this country and I believe I has been the Republicans that have had a sidewalk sale the last 8 years.