Reality Bytes and Pieces

While the media is in a frenzy digging their fangs into Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) over a sex scandal rumor started by The New York Times, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been busy trying to pass a bill in Congress that would commit the U.S. to spending $845 billion to assist in the United Nations lofty plan of eradicating global poverty.

The Global Poverty Act (S.2433) already passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Feb 13, and if passed into law by Congress, would ”[declare] it official U.S. policy to promote the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of cutting extreme global poverty in half by 2015.”

Accuracy in Media’s (AIM) Cliff Kincaid wrote in a Feb. 22 article, “The passage of the Obama bill is far more important than McCain’s sex life … Why the media black-out on this bill? Is this not something we should begin talking about? After all, it’s on the verge of passing the full Senate and becoming law.”

Kincaid is also quick to note that the $845 billion price tag does not appear anywhere in S.2433. He elaborates, “The bill does not attach a dollar figure-and does not need to-because that is contained in the 2002 so-called ‘Monterrey Consensus,’ which grew out of the 2000 Millennium Declaration, which is cited in the bill.”

Obama seems to think it’s the duty of every American to chip-in to eliminate global poverty, and in typical Obama fashion, he is evangelizing the need for Americans to jump on-board and do their part in this feel-good effort that changes nothing in the U.S. except for increasing the size of our out-of-control national debt and the tab already owed to the U.N.

“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 Obama in a Feb. 13. press release hailing the passage of S.2433 in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “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.”

One can only wonder what $845 billion could do for improving the lives of impoverished Americans across the U.S., though without any significant media attention being paid to Obama’s bill, the majority of voters and his supporters might not find out about it until a “global tax” hits them.

That’s right, a global tax! While the tax presumably would be attached to companies producing carbon-emitting fossil fuels and not to the pay-stubs of American workers, it would surely hit Americans at the gas pump which is already taxed out of control by states and the federal government.

“Nobody seriously expects that even a liberal Congress would voluntarily vote that kind of money for U.N. causes. Perhaps it would even balk at accepting a global tax,” Kincaid states reassuringly. ”But failure to pay would lead to the predictable charges that the U.S. was in default on its international obligations that were set by Congress. And that would increase the pressure to come up with some means to generate the funds. A President Obama might then demand that the Congress ‘pay its dues’ to the international community.”

Now, you can sit and wonder if Sen. McCain had sex with a pretty young blond lobbyist or question Sen. Obama and the media for keeping you in the dark about how the U.S. might end up paying $845 billion to the U.N. and spreading your tax dollars across the globe when, just maybe, the money might be better used to eradicate poverty and hunger across America.

Ever wonder what an America-first policy might do for creating positive “change” and restoring “hope” in our nation and its citizens? Obama surely hasn’t, and his global anti-poverty bill is proof-positive that he’ll say and do anything to make everyone happy.

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