I May Be Behind the Curve…

So I got this email from a colleague of mine this morning talking about the “Global Poverty Act”. Having never heard about this and seeing as how I currently reside in a pretty low-income country, I decided to do a little research on this.

Come to find out that the Obamessia is one of the leading proponents of this, and due to him being a complete socialist in regards to all of his legislation this piqued my interest further. I found this post over at On the Right! about the subject:

Senator Barack Obama is the primary sponsor of S.2433 known as the “Global Poverty Act” that would commit US taxpayers to spending $845 Billion in welfare to third world countries!

The legislation requires 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.”

The bill defines the term “Millennium Development Goals” as the goals set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, General Assembly Resolution 55/2 (2000).

The U.N. says that “The commitment to provide 0.7% of gross national product (GNP) as official development assistance was first made 35 years ago in a General Assembly resolution, but it has been reaffirmed repeatedly over the years, including at the 2002 global Financing for Development conference in Monterrey, Mexico. However, in 2004, total aid from the industrialized countries totaled just $78.6 billion-or about 0.25% of their collective GNP.”

The “Millennium Development Goal” 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.”

Zing! Socialism alert!

Here comes the punchline.

The bill passed the House in 2007 and was recently approved by the Senate Foreign relations Committee. A statement from Obama’s office noted the support offered by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:

“With billions of people living on just dollars a day around the world, global poverty remains one of the greatest challenges and tragedies the international community faces,” Obama said. “It must be a priority of American foreign policy to commit to eliminating extreme poverty and ensuring every child has food, shelter, and clean drinking water. As we strive to rebuild America’s standing in the world, this important bill will demonstrate our promise and commitment to those in the developing world.

“Our commitment to the global economy must extend beyond trade agreements that are more about increasing profits than about helping workers and small farmers everywhere.”

(All emphasis is mine)

What a retard. I personally could give two shits about what the world thinks about the United States, but care about what the world is really influenced by: our consumerism and capitalist nature. I have always been a proponent of finding ways that lower tier countries (i.e. Third World Countries, like France) can get themselves into the global market by developing products that are viable in said markets, instead of giving them free cash and allowing only minimal monitoring of the distribution and spending of such monies (I’m looking at YOU, World Bank) which NEVER WORKS. All giving monies to a “support”-based process (and usually forgiving the debt completely or not even considering it a “loan” in the first place) creates is a reliance on the handout with a complete lack of forward-motion or development of the recipient of the aide. An interesting aside is that this reliance is also founded on denero that was generated from societies that usually have capitalism as their driving force (LIKE THE U.S.) which incidentally creates a bunch of hangers-on that never have a chance to get ahead and actually develop their selves because why should they? The incentive to do so has been replaced by a fucking handout.

In this case that “handout” could potentially be 0.7% of our GNP. Trust you me that is a SHIT PILE of money, which actually belongs, at least initially, to you and me. Also this thing is based off of the U.N. and you guys all know how effective an organization that bunch of fucking hooligans are. Let me give you an example of how I see this program though.

 Think of it as a Sally Struthers charity that you have absolutely no choice but to give to and where you have no idea what your dollar(s) are doing.

At least Sally sends you little pics and letters from the ankle biters that you are supporting.

(H/T Steve Manning over at On the Right!)

~ by Old Iron on May 1, 2008.