Friday - July 18, 2008
Dear World: Get a haircut, and get a real job. Clean your act up, and don’t be a slob.
* If it’s always the case that Congress and the Senate each pass their own version of a bill, then why do we have both houses? Repeal the 17th, get the Senate back to working on State To State issues as is their sole mandate.
Read the bill and it’s background here. Read the Conservative viewpoint here. They think it’s 0.7% of our GDP. I think they’re off by an order of magnitude: the US would have to put up $821 Billion PER YEAR.
HR 1302 RFS
H110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1302
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATESSeptember 26, 2007
Received, read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
AN ACT
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 United Nations 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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Global Poverty Act of 2007’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) More than one billion people worldwide live on less than $1 per day, and another 1.6 billion people struggle to survive on less than $2 per day, according to the World Bank.
(2) At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, the United States joined more than 180 other countries in committing to work toward the United Nations Millennium Development Goals to improve life for the world’s poorest people by 2015.
(3) The United Nations Millennium Development Goals include the goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, that live on less than $1 per day, cutting in half the proportion of people suffering from hunger and unable to access safe drinking water and sanitation, reducing child mortality by two-thirds, ensuring basic education for all children, and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS and malaria, while sustaining the environment upon which human life depends.
(4) On March 22, 2002, President George W. Bush stated: `We fight against poverty because hope is an answer to terror. We fight against poverty because opportunity is a fundamental right to human dignity. We fight against poverty because faith requires it and conscience demands it. We fight against poverty with a growing conviction that major progress is within our reach.’.
(5) The 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States notes: `[A] world where some live in comfort and plenty, while half of the human race lives on less than $2 per day, is neither just nor stable. Including all of the world’s poor in an expanding circle of development and opportunity is a moral imperative and one of the top priorities of United States international policy.’.
(6) The 2006 National Security Strategy of the United States notes: `America’s national interests and moral values drive us in the same direction: to assist the world’s poor citizens and least developed nations and help integrate them into the global economy.’.
(7) The bipartisan Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States recommends: `A comprehensive United States strategy to counter terrorism should include economic policies that encourage development, more open societies, and opportunities for people to improve the lives of their families and enhance prospects for their children.’.
(8) At the summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) nations in July 2005, leaders from all eight countries committed to increase aid to Africa from the current $25 billion annually to $50 billion by 2010, and to cancel 100 percent of the debt obligations owed to the World Bank, African Development Bank, and International Monetary Fund by 18 of the world’s poorest nations.
(9) At the United Nations World Summit in September 2005, the United States joined more than 180 other governments in reiterating their commitment to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
(10) The United States has recognized the need for increased financial and technical assistance to countries burdened by extreme poverty, as well as the need for strengthened economic and trade opportunities for those countries, through significant initiatives in recent years, including the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003, the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003, the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, and trade preference programs for developing countries, such as the African Growth and Opportunity Act.
(11) In January 2006, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice initiated a restructuring of the United States foreign assistance program, including the creation of a Director of Foreign Assistance, who maintains authority over Department of State and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) foreign assistance funding and programs.
(12) In January 2007, the Department of State’s Office of the Director of Foreign Assistance added poverty reduction as an explicit, central component of the overall goal of United States foreign assistance. The official goal of United States foreign assistance is: `To help build and sustain democratic, well-governed states that respond to the needs of their people, reduce widespread poverty and conduct themselves responsibly in the international system.’.
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Passed the House of Representatives September 25, 2007.
yes, it passed unanimously. On a voice vote. Without hearings! Because most of the bastards didn’t even read it. But it has a catchy name, so it must be good, right?
Don’t forget, this is spending in addition to all the millions and billions we give away to every flea picking nation on earth already, plus the dozens of billions we spend on africa to try and teach them the crazy concepts of monogamy, fidelity, and safe sex, plus oceans worth of drugs for those who won’t listen anyway. Because that’s not enough you see.
I have a counter proposal: The FOAD bill of 2007-2032: Fuck Off And Die. Not one penny in foreign aid, public assistance, growth incentive to any foreign nation. For any reason, even if they have an emergency. Tough. Fucking. Shit. Not one cent to the UN. If foreign countries want our money, find something to sell us. WTH, we’re Americans, we buy everything. Anything. Have you ever seen the crap for sale in a Dollar Store? And those places NEVER go out of business. But giving it away? Been there, done that, it don’t work, and only builds resentment. And lazy foreigners. Who breed like filthy rats.
For the next 25 years, let’s take whatever the total amount of give aways is this year, and spend that money on ourselves. Rebuild our infrastructure. Raise up our own poor. Make the USA the lowest rated nation for infant mortality. Make us the highest rated nation for education and standard of living. Fix our own house before giving out free paint and shingles to the whole darn town. See, I’m not being heartless. In 2033 we can take a fresh look and see who needs some help. And if they’re all gone by then, mostly, well then look how much money we’ve saved.
This bill is insanity. But it’s coming up for a vote soon. You know what to do.
Yes Drew, we do. The very first thing to do is to try, really try, to ferret out the truth. CBO (Congressional Budget Office) says this bill would cost less than $1 million per year. VRWC says this bill would cost $845 BILLION. That’s a galactic cost difference: 65,000 times greater cost according to one group. Somebody - maybe more than one somebody - is playing fast and loose with the truth. Who? The why is obvious - politics.
But I can tell you this - the idea is to give $1 a day to every Starvin Marvin on the planet. That’s $3 BILLION a year right there. PER DAY. $1.095 TRILLION PER YEAR. And since it’s a UN plan, that means the USA will pick up at least 75% of the tab. That’s $821 BILLION A YEAR, right there. And that assumes the gollywogs won’t breed. Like hell. Oh, and adopting this will probably make us subservient to the UN; they’ll have the power to tax us to get the cash.
Posted by Drew458
on 07/18/2008 at 08:26 PM
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