Here ya go, just to make your day.

DMeNTe on February 14, 2008 at 2:14 PM

‘interesting’ that this comes out pretty much after McCain is the nominee, and not during the primary. Worth pondering..

Barack Obama’s Global Tax Proposal Up for Senate Vote
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By Cliff Kincaid
Feb 12, 2008

A nice-sounding bill called the “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. The bill, which has the support of many liberal religious groups, makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations.

Senator Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has not endorsed either Senator Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. But on Thursday, February 14, he is trying to rush Obama’s “Global Poverty Act” (S.2433) through his committee. The legislation would commit the U.S. 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 U.S. already spends.

The bill, which is item number four on the committee’s business meeting agenda, passed the House by a voice vote last year 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. According to the website of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, no hearings have been held on the Obama bill in that body.

A release from the Obama Senate office about the bill declares, “In 2000, the U.S. joined more than 180 countries at the United Nations Millennium Summit and vowed to reduce global poverty by 2015. We are halfway towards this deadline, and it is time the United States makes it a priority of our foreign policy to meet this goal and help those who are struggling day to 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.”

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.

The Millennium Declaration also affirms the U.N. as “the indispensable common house of the entire human family, through which we will seek to realize our universal aspirations for peace, cooperation and development.”

Jeffrey Sachs, who runs the U.N.’s “Millennium Project,” says that the U.N. plan to force the U.S. to pay 0.7 percent of GNP in increased foreign aid spending would add $65 billion a year to what 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 the “Millennium Development Goals,” this amounts to $845 billion. And the only way to raise that kind of money, Sachs has written, is through a global tax, preferably on carbon-emitting fossil fuels.

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272618845.shtml

He’s got my vote, God bless him and his kids for their service.

Disclaimer: He’s got my vote because he ain’t Obama OR Hillary!

And we appreciatively note McCain’s vote against the banning water boarding; he will not disarm the Commander in Chief, nor will he make America vulnerable to terrorism.

maverick muse on February 14, 2008 at 4:05 PM

Given his previous statements, what if the vote had been closer? He knew that it would still pass without him, so doing the politically expedient thing was easy.

That said, I still don’t trust McCain and will not vote for him. I’ll rejoin the Republican Party when their values again reflect mine.

That McCain will keep taxes low, keep terrorists otherwise occupied, and nominate conservative judges are reasons to prefer him to any democrat. And we appreciatively note McCain’s vote against the banning water boarding; he will not disarm the Commander in Chief, nor will he make America vulnerable to terrorism.

So long as he can maintain a grip on the conservative vote, McCain’s dalliance with Democrats is politically savvy for the time being. Together, we conservatives are all holding our breath waiting for McCain to make a pledge of honor on our behalf. But then, he would sacrifice the moderate votes, and there lays the rub from the general population. Would moderates actually prefer him to Obama, anyway? Probably not, so he may as well shed excessive effort to remain “currently” liberal.

Prior to our general election vote, we demand to have McCain’s sacred pledge on immigration to commit his every presidential Chief Executive effort towards governmental compliance with LAW ENFORCEMENT at all levels to secure national borders, and for McCain to abstain from exerting his own efforts to overhaul the immigration process with anything more than facilitation of processing legal entry alien naturalization of citizenship compliant to existing laws, and prosecuting all offenders.

I read it at WND.

……we are that much closer to keeping an unaccomplished airhead out of the presidency.
JayHaw Phrenzie on February 14, 2008 at 3:22 PM

And what has McCain ever accomplished that actually benefits us commoners? His only actual ‘accomplishments’ are political back-room deals that cause more problems than they solve.

That said….I voted Mitt!

I wouldn’t expect any McCain critics, and I count myself among them, to just fall in line after reading this article

You don’t have to fall in line. You just have to fall in love.

billy on February 14, 2008 at 2:16 PM

How about the strategic understanding that an Obama victory has a potential backlash among the Hispanic population against him and if Mac can exploit that backlash, we are that much closer to keeping an unaccomplished airhead out of the presidency.

In any case — eat it, John Galt!

Cuffy Meigs on February 14, 2008 at 2:59 PM

AAAAAAAck! Irony give me a heart attack!

so maybe this strange looking plant I found and smoked in the woods really isn’t a weather balloon.

- The Cat

MirCat on February 14, 2008 at 3:04 PM

HA!

- The Cat

Been meaning to ask you…why did you name yourself after such a brutish character?

RushBaby on February 14, 2008 at 2:44 PM

Dunno. Just a fit of trendy late-90’s irony when I started going by that handle, I suppose. Or I was drunk. In any case — eat it, John Galt!

Been meaning to ask you…why did you name yourself after such a brutish character?
RushBaby on February 14, 2008 at 2:44 PM

I’ve been wondering that myself.
Why not Ellsworth Toohey?
:-)

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on February 14, 2008 at 2:44 PM

Absolutely, more Megan. The main reason that I didn’t vote for Gore in 2000 was that we were promised Gore daughters in 1992. We didn’t get them.

I don’t think I can stand to be disappointed again.

Way off topic, but check out C_SPAN senate right now for Boxer’s defence of Berkely and their city council. Maybe McCain would care to weifg in.

tomk59 on February 14, 2008 at 2:44 PM

I have been really, REALLY hoping McCain would get out there and publicly support those Marines and condemn the actions of Berkeley and Code Pink.

I’m going to put this out here right now: If McCain does that, I will turn 180 and get behind his candidacy 100%.

If the country is going to look at Texas the next couple of weeks prior to our primary on the 4th, then let’s shine the light on the TTC and make it a national story. It must be stopped.