Topic: Globalism
We Can Solve All Problems! Please note: this offer is not valid for subjects of the US, who will be funding the project.by Mike Foster
(libertarian)
Friday, February 29, 2008
The Global Poverty Act of 2007 is 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.".
Makes a Politician "Look" Good (and does other stuff)
H.R. 1302 passed in the House on September 25, 2007. It passed by voice vote so voting records were not kept, but it appears that it passed unanimously. S. 2433 was introduced into the Senate by its sponsor Senator Barack Obama on December 7, 2007. The bill has been referred to the Senate Foreign Relations committee but has not yet been scheduled for debate.
It seems that the Global Poverty Act does nothing more than remind the President that he must do something that the U.S. agreed to do back in 2000, and he must provide progress reports to Congress. This bill seems to single out just one of the Millennium Development Goals.
Our Global Rulers are Truly Benevolent (with "our" money)
"At the Millennium Summit in September 2000 the largest gathering of world leaders in history adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets, with a deadline of 2015, that have become known as the Millennium Development Goals."
Don't you just love it when bureaucrats obligate every U.S. citizen to pay for another global partnership? The Millennium Development Goals are as follows.
Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty
Achieve Universal Primary Education
Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Reduce Child Mortality
Improve Maternal Health
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Develop a Global Partnership for Development
Makes Me Feel All Warm Inside (or is that nausea?)
Keep in mind that these are not goals for the U.S., rather we are going to pay to achieve these goals in other countries. Finding out how much it is going to cost us is not so easy. It is argued that these are good and lofty goals but seeing the results of recent U.S. foreign policy makes me sincerely doubt that these same people can save the world -- no matter how much money we "give" them!
I have two teenagers in the public school system. The people in control of this system have shown to me that they do not have the children's best interest in mind. These people cannot be trusted to educate the World.
Whether or not you consider gender equality a good thing, what gives one country the right to go into another country and empower any specific group of people?
If this plan increases the average global income it will do so only because of the increase in high-paid bureaucrats and contractors! This is an excellent money-making opportunity for big pharmaceutical and agricultural companies, not to mention the education (indoctrination) industry.
So if the Global Poverty Act is passed, the President will have one year to make a plan and start implementing it. Is it just me or is it a little ironic that Senator Obama is the sponsor of the Senate bill and he may very well be the President when this bill passes?
It appears that every single House Representative voted for this bill. Why don't we ask them how they intend to pay for it? I'm afraid we already know the answer.
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