Predicting the future…I hope!

I was trying to find any significant “CHANGE” that Barrack Obama had initiated while in the Senate. He’s always talking about and promising change. Since no one will ask him to be specific about change and no one will ask him why he hasn’t initiated any change yet as a Senator (see my post earlier this month) I thought that maybe he had and I’d missed it. Well there is one change he’s proposed. Its called Senate Bill 2433, The Global Poverty Act of 2007.

Senate Bill 2433, the Global Poverty Act of 2007, would “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.” Did you get that? We, you and me, the American taxpayer, are to pay for this.

The most liberal Senator (in 2007 anyway) wants to buy the affection and love of the rest of the world and he wants you and I to pay through the nose for it. Forget the fact that the United States feeds more of the world and sends more foreign aid to the world than any other county. Forget the fact that it is the United States that props up the vaunted United Nations. It appears that Obama and other liberals think we should literally pay the world’s way out of poverty. One of those liberals is Joe Biden.

Please note that this bill proposes nothing for the poverty stricken here. Nothing for Appalachia, nothing for the border slums in our southwest, nothing for the urban slums or the rural poor here in the United States. When you read the words “worldwide” and “global” in this legislation read “everywhere but here”.

There has been some research into this legislation. Cliff Kincaid, of Accuracy in Media, studied this bill and he reports that it is “[A] hugely expensive bill and was quickly passed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. In his column posted on the Accuracy in Media web site, Kincaid noted that 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. However, Kincaid found that 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.” Now, the House passed this bill in September. It’s now getting rushed through the committee in the Senate, the Biden committee, to soak the US taxpayers again to fund global, liberal, feel-good garbage.

While watching National Geographic and the Discovery Channel on tv I see these primitive tribes from South America, Africa and the Pacific. They live on less than $1 a day and the world is trying everything it can to maintain their lifestyle. Are we Americans going to force them out of it? There is massive abject poverty in Brazil and Argentina and Venezuela. Why don’t those governments do anything about it? Well, in Venezuela’s case we know why.

I’m all for helping poverty stricken areas. Right here in the United States. Long term welfare isn’t the answer. Go to any government housing project and look around. It isn’t working. Change that, Obama.