obama- 0.7% of the GNP goes to the UN - Page 6

TOJ · 08-07-08, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by SouthernDemocrat

We have a per-capita GDP of over 40k. We are helping nations with per-capita GDPs of less than 1k.

What's your point?

obvious Child · 08-08-08, 03:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Goobieman

The truth is that poverty, across the world or here at home, isnt a problem for the US government to fix.

Heaven forbid creating job opportunities and increasing the quality of life to severely reduce terror recruiting.

Heaven forbid helping people help themselves to embrace the world market and its framework instead of turning to people that want to destroy it all.

Heaven forbid helping development in poor countries so that these countries can spend more money on anti-terror activities.

Screw that. Terrorism around the world is not our problem to fix.

bhkad · 08-08-08, 05:10 AM

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Cliff Kincaid, president of America's Survival, says although Obama's "Global Poverty Act" sounds good in theory, it could impose a hefty global tax on Americans. And he concludes it would force the U.S. to spend 0.7 percent of its gross national product on foreign aid, which amounts to a 13-year total of $845 billion in excess of what the U.S. already spends.

Kincaid, who published an extensive report on the legislation, says the bill gives people insight into Senator Obama's (D-Illinois) mindset. "This reflects his Marxist view that the United States has really exploited the rest of the world in order to achieve success through slavery, and progress ...," says Kincaid. "And that therefore, because we are at this position in the world today, we're greedy and rich, [and] we have to spend all this money on the rest of the world. That is what drives his thinking," he details.

Not only would Obama's legislation amount to a global tax on Americans, warns Kincaid, but it would also commit the U.S. government to fulfill the "Millennium Development Goals" of the United Nations. And he says currently the U.N. considers the U.S. short $65 billion a year in funding the anti-poverty project.

Kincaid says the Global Poverty Act passed the House by a voice vote because many Republicans did not know what was in it. The measure also passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by voice vote with GOP support and is awaiting a floor vote.

The America's Survival spokesman is not alone in his criticism of the bill. Longtime conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly calls the Obama bill "costly, dangerous and altogether bad."

Poverty bill could cost taxpayers billions (OneNewsNow.com)

bhkad · 08-08-08, 05:19 AM

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Originally Posted by obvious Child

Heaven forbid creating job opportunities and increasing the quality of life to severely reduce terror recruiting.

Heaven forbid helping people help themselves to embrace the world market and its framework instead of turning to people that want to destroy it all.

Heaven forbid helping development in poor countries so that these countries can spend more money on anti-terror activities.

Screw that. Terrorism around the world is not our problem to fix.

We are "fixing" terrorism out of a healthy sense of self interest as well as altruism.

This is global Socialism/Communism.

New World Order.

Taxation without corresponding representation.

Estimated to be $845 Billion over 13 years. And this would be on top of what we already pay the UN and apart from what foreign aid we give through USAID.

Does any of that $$ go to help poor Americans?

Thought not.

Reverend_Hellh0und · 08-08-08, 06:53 AM

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Originally Posted by hackster

can you say "UN OIL FOR FOOD SCANDAL"?

how soon we ferget...

http://acepilots.com/unscam

no

the only thing the UN should get is an eviction notice.

obvious Child · 08-08-08, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by bhkad

We are "fixing" terrorism out of a healthy sense of self interest as well as altruism.

Altruism? Seriously? Terrorism has hit many countries over the past 50 years, some of it directly financed by the US. We did nothing. This is entirely self interest.

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Estimated to be $845 Billion over 13 years.

Which annually, is less then 9 months in Iraq. Or have you forgotten your basic math skills?

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And this would be on top of what we already pay the UN and apart from what foreign aid we give through USAID.

Does any of that $$ go to help poor Americans?

Thought not.

If you understand trade market yes. Your logic would dictate that the Marshall plan had no effect on America. Apparently the concept of demand has no impact on your thinking.

Furthermore, you completely failed to respond to what I actually wrote.

Typical for you though.