Why is Obama promoting a global tax for poverty to be paid for by Americans via socialism?
January 20th, 2010
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We are citizens of the world, Sen. Obama told thousands of nonvoting Germans during his recent tour of the Middle East and Europe. And if the Global Poverty Act (S. 2433) he has sponsored becomes law, which is almost certain if he wins in November, we’re also going to be taxpayers of the world.
Speaking in Berlin, Obama said: "While the 20th century taught us that we share a common destiny, the 21st has revealed a world more intertwined than at any time in human history."
What the 20th century really showed was a series of totalitarian threats — from fascism to Nazism to communism — defeated by the U.S. military. Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Tojo’s Japan and the Soviet Union offered destinies we did not share.
Our destiny of peace and freedom through strength was not achieved by a transnationalist fantasy of buying the world a Coke and singing "Kumbaya."
Obama’s Global Poverty Act offers us a global socialist destiny we do not want, one that challenges America’s very sovereignty. The former "post-racial" candidate obviously intends to be a post-national president.
A statement from Obama’s office says: "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. 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."
These are worthy goals, but note there’s no mention of spreading democracy, expanding free trade, promoting entrepreneurial capitalism or ridding the world of despots who rule and ravage countries such as Zimbabwe and Sudan.
Obama would give them all a fish without teaching them how to fish. Pledging to cut global poverty in half on the backs of U.S. taxpayers is a ridiculous and impossible goal.
His legislation refers to the "millennium development goal," a phrase from a declaration adopted by the United Nations Millennium Assembly in 2000 and supported by President Clinton.
It calls for the "eradication of poverty" in part through the "redistribution (of) wealth of land" and "a fair distribution of the earth’s resources." In other words: American resources.
It’s a mantra of liberals that the U.S. is only a small portion of the world’s population yet consumes an unseemly portion of the planet’s supposedly finite resources. Never mentioned is the fact that America’s population, just 5% of the world’s total, also produces a stunning 27% of the world’s GDP — to the enormous benefit of other countries. Nonetheless, their solution is to siphon off the product of our free democracy and distribute it.
We already transfer too much national wealth to the United Nations and its busybody agencies. Obama’s bill would force U.S. taxpayers to fork over 0.7% of our gross domestic product every year to fund a global war on poverty, spending well above the .3 billion in global poverty aid the U.S. already spends.
Over a 13-year period, from 2002, when the U.N.’s Financing for Development Conference was held, to the target year of 2015, when the U.S is expected to meet its part of the U.N. Millennium goals, we would be spending an additional billion annually for a total of 5 billion.
During a time of economic uncertainty, the plan would cost every American taxpayer around ,500.
If you’re worried abut gasoline and heating oil prices now, think what they’ll be like when the U.S. is subjected in an Obama administration to global energy consumption and production taxes. Obama’s Global Poverty Act is the "international community’s" foot in the door.
The U.N. Millennium declaration called 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 the airplane use of the skies, fees for the use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on the carbon content of fuels."
Co-sponsors of S. 2433 include Democrats Maria Cantwell of Washington, Dianne Feinstein of California, Richard Durbin of Illinois and Robert Menendez of New Jersey. GOP globalists supporting the bill include Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Richard Lugar of Indiana.
Lugar has worked with Obama to promote more aid to Russia to promote nuclear nonproliferation. Lugar also promotes the Law of the Sea treaty, which turns over the world’s oceans to an International Seabed Authority that would charge us to drill offshore and have veto power over the movements and actions of the U.S. Navy.
Obama’s agenda sounds like defeated 2004 Democratic candidate John Kerry’s "global test" for U.S. foreign policy decisions where "you have to do it in a way that passes the test — that passes the global test — where your
MR MOTA: Simple answer: it’s not in the Constitution. Besides, I give plenty to churches, charity, and other organizations to fight poverty, hunger, and homelessness. The American people are already the most generous givers in history; we don’t need wasteful government to usurp control under the guise of a fight on "global poverty".
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Obama’s deeply-held socialistic/globalist ideas require the buying and selling of influence.
He considers himself to be a citizen of the world, with total responsibility to take care of everyone else.
What’s the problem with that?
1. Obliterates individual responsibility of the people in other countries to take care of their own problems by removing evil leaders or changing failed policies and governments.
2. Puts power only in the hands of the wealthy few elitists who can afford to buy and sell influence. This is totalitarianism, well-disguised as philanthropy. It is merely the same old power grab that has been going on in governments since the start.
3. The end of this road is enslavement for the masses to the elite few: Nazism, Facism, Communism, Socialism, etc.
NObama 08!
We need to establish a concentration camp for Globalist Fascists. Republicans and Democrats have both been invaded by these fuckers.
It’s time for a second revolution!
Considering the wasteful spending of the Bush administration, who has managed to created the largest deficit in US history, your question seems bold.
This is a "Holy war". And Jesus told him to. Right after he told John McCain to never be stoppin the flip floppin!!
we already pay for the other countries poor…….you know via disasters and what not.
Because Barack Hussein Obama is a socialist with more favorable interests in countries other than the United Ststes.
Plain and simple: he’s a socialist at heart. I’ve been preaching the same message and a lot of people I’ve talked to said they agree with the redistribution of wealth. Shocking!!! I really hope McCain and Sarah win because we will be a socialist country if obama is elected.
Because he is a f***** idiot!
Obama’s policies aren’t socialist. he believes in building from the ground up instead of the trickle down philosophy which hasn’t been working. This is what democrats have done for ages, it worked under FDR, worked under Clinton so why not under Obama?
Obama wants to prop up Africa on the American tax payer’s back. That money will go where the money we’ve given has gone for decades, to the tyrants — that is IF the money even gets through the United Nations. That bill wants $845 billion of our money to go through the UN to disperse. Considering the Oil-for-Food, I don’t trust the UN with billions upon billions of our tax dollars.
Whew! Too much. no link?
Obama’s father was a socialist. Many of his early education, mentors & friend were socialistic in their beliefs. He taught under a socialist agenda.
He also has sponsored a bill to approriate .7% of the US GDP for use by the UN.
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/united_nations/news.php?q=1210170368
Perhaps that joke about wanting to be Emperor of the Earth wasnt so far fetched. At least in Obama’s mind.
OBamba goes, like any other demagogue, to foreign and asinine themes when he has no clue what a President should do for the USA. I am pretty sure that he has never read a summary like you have put together; if he would be a patriotic American, he would shut up for good.
Doesn’t this man scare the daylights out of you? He does me!
Since this country is one of the richest of all, why can’t we eliminate poverty. Someone has to take initiative, we shouldn’t be selfish. Feed the needy don’t be greedy.
‘The American people are already the most generous givers in history’
Actually, that $16B you mention is only 0.18 percent of GNP. That put us almost last out of the 22 members of the UN Development Assistance Committee. Only Japan and Italy are as low as us.
Now, one may argue, We pay the most total dollars. Sure, that’s true, and maybe the GNP measure is unfair. After all, it punishes those countries who are the most successful, namely the U.S. and Japan, by asking more from them per capita.
But since the money isn’t being asked of from the US middle class anyway, it’s hard to say that the average American would be ‘punished’. And the wealthy (those making over $250k/yr) wouldn’t be returned to a tax rate under Obama any worse than what they paid just before Bush started cutting their tax rate — and considering the increasing divide between rich and poor, they weren’t doing too shabby.
Furthermore, I believe that you’ve missed the point how foreign aid works in a global economy. For the most part, the aid dollars don’t leave the U.S., or at least they circulate right back into our economy. The money is spent on US-made products, like bed nets, water decontaminators, TB/malaria medicine, decentralized energy sources like solar panels, and so on. In a way this is the same as the ’stimulus’ checks that went out awhile ago… a plan as you may remember that was acceptable to the Republicans. The plus side of this aid is two fold. One, US companies receive an inflow of cash that usually results in more hiring, and the nations who receive this aid produce a population that can afford to buy US products. Up until now ‘foreign aid’ had more to do with selling arms to various thugocracies so they would be ‘anti-communist’….very little went for upgrading such things as electrical generation, water facilities and other infrastructure. It is possible that extending the two wars that we’re now engaged in will result in NOT instituting a reasonable, profitable, and workable aid situation, but given an end to these wars more than enough money will be available to actually get our people back to work.