Legislative Alert!

All right, people, it's time to call your Senators again...!

There is a bill in the Senate ("The Global Poverty Act of 2007", S. 2433) right now that will add almost $1 trillion in new taxes that will be sent directly out of the country. That's right, it's a global poverty bill that would take a load of money out of your pocket and ship it overseas to petty dictators and 3rd world countries that hate us.

The Senate is trying to make our enemies like us by buying them off.

Would someone please explain to me how those dolts in Washington expect us to come out of the recession they keep insisting we're in by loading us up with massive new taxes that get shipped straight out of the country?

Furthermore, when has money ever bought us respect or good will around the world? Seriously, if you can think of one time, let me know.

One other...oh, let's say a small detail...of this monster-sized new tax is that U.S. foreign policy would be subordinated to the U.N. Once again, would someone please tell me just one time -- JUST ONE -- that the U.N. has not been against the United States?

Oh, by the way, guess which Senator is one of the principle sponsors of this bill?

Barack Obama.

Mr. Dream-Hope-Vision-We-Can himself wants to empty the pockets of Americans and give our money to our enemies around the world.

Lee Cary goes into great detail about Obama's plan to buy off the world. Some excerpts:

Here's an abstract of the proposed legislation:

"To 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 [U.N.] 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."

If enacted, how much of a financial commitment would that represent to taxpayers?

One estimate is 0.7% of gross national product, or an additional $845 billion over 13 years in addition to existing foreign aid expenditures. So far, this proposal is barely on the MSM radar, but we're likely hear more about it as a full Senate vote approaches.

Here's how Senator Obama's website frames the bill:

"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," said Senator Obama. "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. As we strive to rebuild America's standing in the world, this important bill will demonstrate our promise and commitment to those in the developing world. Our commitment to the global economy must extend beyond trade agreements that are more about increasing corporate profits than about helping workers and small farmers everywhere." (emphasis added)

In other words, other nations will like us better if we give them our money. And, our trade agreements should not be about business profit, but benevolent social action.

Obama is full of sweeping statements about dreams, hopes, and other wonderful-sounding platitudes, but apparently he only believes those things for those living outside our borders. Cary calls Obama the global candidate, and he's living up to it with things like this tax-America-give-to-the-world legislation.

Call your Senators, and tell them no.

There's my two cents.