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The United States
Senate may vote any day on the stealth
imposition of what could amount to an $845 BILLION United Nations
style global tax on American citizens?
It's called the
Global Poverty Act (S.2433), and it is being sponsored by none
other than Senator Barack Obama.
According to some
conservative sources, this disastrous legislation could
eventually force U.S. taxpayers
to fork over as much as 0.7 percent of the nation's Gross Domestic
Product -- or $845,000,000,000.00 -- on welfare to third-world
countries.
Here's what
Phyllis Schlafly, conservative activist and founder of Eagle Forum,
recently wrote:
"Obama's
costly, dangerous and altogether bad bill (S. 2433), which could come up in the Senate any
day, is called the Global Poverty Act. It would commit U.S.
taxpayers to spend 0.7 percent of our Gross Domestic Product on foreign
handouts..." [Emphasis
Mine]
Time
is of the essence because Senator Joe Biden, the Chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee just issued a report on the Global Poverty
Act and it was placed on the
Senate Legislative Calendar on Thursday the
24th.
That means that
time is of the essence as
this potentially massive surrender of your hard-earned tax dollars to
the third world may be close to a vote.
That's why we
must act today... BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!
Use
the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax
messages to President George W. Bush and each Member of the Republican
Leadership of the United States Senate.
Let
them know in no uncertain terms that you are watching and you will not
tolerate massive United Nations style giveaways that are passed in the
dark of night -- or in broad daylight for that matter. Tell them that
putting us on the road to give billions to petty tyrants and dictators is
NOT a solution to poverty.
This
bill can come up for a vote at any time.
Demand that our conservative legislators do whatever it takes -- a
filibuster if necessary -- to stop this bill dead in its
tracks.
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The Senate Shell
Game...
Advocates of the
Global Poverty Act are claiming that it does not really commit
the United States to anything... that it won't really cost anything...
that it simply requires the President
-- in conjunction with the Secretary of State -- to "develop" strategies to alleviate
world poverty.
In fact, Biden's
report incredulously states, "implementing S.
2433 would cost less than $1 million per
year..."
Technically he's
correct... after all, it doesn't really cost that much to develop and
formulate strategies...
But
such a cleverly worded contention begs the question: Why formulate or develop a strategy if there is
no intention to follow through on that strategy?
And
what would it cost to actually follow through on a strategy to alleviate
world poverty?
The
Global Poverty Act intentionally gives no specific figures but it
does contain clues, and those clues are stated repeatedly in the
legislation's reliance on the United Nations Millennium Development
Goal.
WorldNetDaily.com quotes Cliff
Kincaid of Accuracy in Media as saying:
"The
bill defines the term 'Millennium Development Goals' as the goals set out
in the United Nations Millennium Declaration..."
"In
addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that declaration commits nations
to banning 'small arms and light weapons' and ratifying a series of
treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto
Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention on Biological Diversity,
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child."
As
for specific figures... WorldNetDaily.com reports:
"Those
U.N. protocols would make U.S. law on issues ranging from the 2nd
Amendment to energy usage and parental rights all subservient to United
Nations whims."
"[T]he
legislation, if approved, dedicates 0.7 percent of the U.S. gross national
product to foreign aid, which over 13 years... would amount to $845
billion 'over and above what the U.S. already spends.'"
"The plan
passed the House in 2007 'because most members didn't realize what was in
it.' Congressional sponsors have been careful not to calculate the amount
of foreign aid spending that it would require."
And,
how would the United States pay for this $845 BILLION
commitment? According to Kincaid, who published a report on the
legislation; "A global tax will clearly be
necessary to force American taxpayers to provide the
money."
And
that $845 BILLION global tax is in addition to our nation's current
Foreign Aid programs, which, in 2006, cost American taxpayers about $300
BILLION!
Senator Obama's
Global Poverty Act has already passed the House (many Members
unfortunately voted in favor of it without carefully noting exactly what
was in it) and President Bush may very well sign it!
That's why it
must be stopped, and it must be stopped NOW!
Use
the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax
messages to President George W. Bush and each Member of the Republican
Leadership of the United States Senate.
Let
them know in no uncertain terms that you are watching and you will not
tolerate massive United Nations style giveaways that are passed in the
dark of night -- or in broad daylight for that matter. Tell them that
putting us on the road to give billions to petty tyrants and dictators is
NOT a solution to poverty.
This
bill can come up for a vote at any time.
Demand that our conservative legislators do whatever it takes -- a
filibuster if necessary -- to stop this bill dead in its
tracks.
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It Gets Worse!
Here
are some of the additional provisions of the Millennium Development
Goal:
a "currency transfer tax," that is, a tax
imposed on companies and individuals who must exchange dollars for foreign
currency;
a "tax on the rental value of land and natural
resources";
a "royalty on worldwide fossil energy projection --
oil, natural gas, coal";
"fees
for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies,
fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees on foreign exchange
transactions, and a tax on the carbon content of
fuels."
a "standing peace force," meaning a standing
United Nations army that might, in time, be large enough to force us to
bend to its will;
a "UN arms register of all small arms and light
weapons," the beginning of the end of the Second Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution;
the "eradication of poverty" by the "redistribution [of]
wealth and land" -- How do you suppose
the United Nations expects to "redistribute" the land and the
wealth? And what country do you think the third-world majority will
go after first?
cancellation of
"the debts of developing
countries,"
"a
fair distribution of the earth's resources."
and "political control of the global
economy."
In
other words, it's a blueprint for a world government, owned and operated
by the United Nations.
One
thing is clear: the Millennium Development Goal is a dagger aimed at the
heart of America.
While
the Global Poverty
Act, as presently championed by its Senate
supporters, embraces certain aspects of the Millennium Development Goal,
one should wonder if some of our legislators also support land and wealth
"redistribution."
We
must stop this bill dead in its tracks.
We
must stop this subversion NOW! Don't let Senator Obama's Global
Poverty Act sneak through the Senate.
Use
the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax
messages to President George W. Bush and each Member of the Republican
Leadership of the United States Senate.
Let
them know in no uncertain terms that you are watching and you will not
tolerate massive United Nations style giveaways that are passed in the
dark of night -- or in broad daylight for that matter. Tell them that
putting us on the road to give billions to petty tyrants and dictators is
NOT a solution to poverty.
This
bill can come up for a vote at any time.
Demand that our conservative legislators do whatever it takes -- a
filibuster if necessary -- to stop this bill dead in its
tracks.
Click Here
AOL Members
Use This Hyperlink
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hyperlink does not appear to function you can copy and paste it into the
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Other Appropriate
Entities...
Dr.
Jeffrey D. Sachs -- a Columbia University economist -- is monitoring the
Millennium Development Goal for the United Nations.
In
his 2005 report to Kofi Annan -- based on the research of 265 "poverty specialists" -- Sachs criticized
the United States for giving only a mere $16.3 billion a year to
alleviate global poverty.
He
argued that we should spend at least an additional $30 billion a
year.
And
Sachs has decreed that the only way to
force the United States to commit that much money is to IMPOSE A GLOBAL
TAX.
Has
Senator Obama -- along with the other Senate co-sponsors -- introduced the
Global Policy Act at least in partial obedience to Sachs'
wishes?
Phyllis Schlafly
claims:
"The
Global Poverty Act would be a giant step toward the Millennium Goals of
global governance and international taxes on Americans. Tell your Senators
to kill this un-American bill."
Joe
Farah, publisher of WorldNetDaily.com said of this treacherous
bill:
"Now
comes an even grander proposal by Barack Obama. It's called the
Global Poverty Act, that would, in the next decade, transfer at least
$845 billion of U.S. taxpayer money overseas. Think of Johnson's failed
war on poverty going international -- directed not by Americans but by the
United Nations."
And
yes, just in case you think the massive amounts of your tax dollars that
were wasted under the United Nation's Oil for Food program were an
aberration, and that such a thing could not eventually happen on a more
massive scale were the Global Poverty Act to sneak through the
Senate, Doug Powers, writing for WorldNetDaily.com made this
observation:
"Not
long ago, Nigeria's 'anti-corruption commission' -- runner-up in the
'oxymoron of the year' competition, second only to 'U.S. Senate
Intelligence' -- found that past rulers of Nigeria have stolen or misused
billions of dollars."
"The
commission discovered that the amount of money 'missing' adds up to all
the Western aid given to Africa in four decades. Obama, Hagel and Cantwell want to throw more at
them. Apparently they won't be happy until there are
trillions
of our tax dollars stolen by crooked leaders and
warlords."
[Emphasis
Mine]
Unfortunately,
the Global Poverty Act is still flying under the radar, but not for
long.
There is
hope.
We
know, and we can stop this vicious bill -- provided we act RIGHT
NOW!
Use
the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax
messages to President George W. Bush and each Member of the Republican
Leadership of the United States Senate.
Let
them know in no uncertain terms that you are watching and you will not
tolerate massive United Nations style giveaways that are passed in the
dark of night -- or in broad daylight for that matter. Tell them that
putting us on the road to give billions to petty tyrants and dictators is
NOT a solution to poverty.
This
bill can come up for a vote at any time.
Demand that our conservative legislators do whatever it takes -- a
filibuster if necessary -- to stop this bill dead in its
tracks.
Click Here
AOL Members
Use This Hyperlink
If the above
hyperlink does not appear to function you can copy and paste it into the
address bar of your browser.
Yours In
Freedom,
Jeff
Mazzella
President
http://www.cfif.org
