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[Roger]

Bill Forces U.S. to Give 'Til It Hurts

Less than a day after the President agreed to put more money in taxpayers' pockets, the U.S. Senate is attempting to take some of those dollars back. The Global Poverty Act, while seemingly charitable and big-hearted, sounds nicer than it really is.

Under a guise of Good Samaritanism, the bill would require our government to spend $845 billion above and beyond what America already spends on global aid! In addition to surrendering more dollars, the U.S. would also be required to surrender some of its own sovereignty over foreign aid by putting it under UN control. The bill would force the U.S. to sign onto the U.N.'s Millennium Declaration, which would commit us not only to "banning small arms and light weapons," but also to ratifying a series of objectionable treaties such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming), the Convention on Biological Diversity, and so on. Considering the magnitude of the legislation, one would think that the Senate would proceed with caution. Not so!

In an effort to fast-track the bill, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has yet to hold a single hearing. Instead, S. 2433 is scheduled for a vote in the Committee as early as today. Currently, the bill has just seven sponsors, who include Senators Barack Obama (D-Ill.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), Richard Durbin, (D-Ill.), Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.). Contact your senators and tell them to oppose S. 2433! Impoverishing Americans through oppressive taxation and regulation will never succeed in enriching the world.

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[Roger]

Sample letter:



February 14, 2008
[recipient address was inserted here]

[recipient name was inserted here],
Please vote no on S.2433, the Global Poverty Act bill.This bill would cause us to surrender $845 billion more dollars to UN control under the guise of humanitarianism.It also would require us to sign on to the UN's Millenium Declaration, which is unconstitutional, banning "small arms and light weapons"and giving away our sovereignty to the International Criminal Court Treaty. This bill is bad for America and puts us in a very vulnerable position. Please vote no to protect our right to self government that so many have fought and died to secure.
Sincerely,

[pickenup]

Obama is who "sponsored" the bill, the rest are "co-sponsors" and he wants to be POTUS???

[7idl]

we're LONG overdue

[Richard K]

Has this been posted on other forums like ARFCOM, etc.? I've sent emails to Allard and Salazar.

[Zundfolge]

The bill would force the U.S. to sign onto the U.N.'s Millennium Declaration, which would commit us not only to "banning small arms and light weapons," but also to ratifying a series of objectionable treaties such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming), the Convention on Biological Diversity, and so on.

I read the entire bill ... I don't see anything about ratifying treaties. All I saw was references to "...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."

This thing still stinks to high heaven and is nothing but a tax on America for being successful, but its NOT a back door gun ban and we all look like fools if we run around like chicken little saying it is.

[Roger]

What you are not seeing are all the ammendments and ear marks that have been added to the original bill. Signing on to the UN treaty is one of the ammendments.

If your reps don't read all the stuff that's been added on, they'll never know. It was posted on arfcom, under a different title, mine was ruled a dupe and ignored.