Rep. Smith on the Global Poverty Act
September 26th, 2007 at 12:12 pm | posted by U.S. Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA)
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the Global Poverty Act of 2007, H.R. 1302. This bill states for the first time that reducing global poverty and eliminating extreme global poverty are among our foremost foreign policy goals and that the President must create a strategy to further those goals.
As ONE Campaign community members, you probably already know the numbers – that more than a billion people live on less than a dollar a day, and nearly 3 billion people live on less than 2 dollars a day. You know that extreme poverty breeds instability and that it is in our national interest to alleviate that instability.
But more than anything, you know – and I agree – that when we live in a world with such vast resources, the existence of such deep and widespread poverty is a moral affront. And yet, current U.S. policy does not require an overall strategy to focus our resources and provide accountability to our efforts to confront the menace of global poverty. This bill, should it pass in the Senate and receive the President’s signature, will change that.
The Global Poverty Act passed by a voice vote on the House floor, illustrating the bipartisan support behind the measure. That means that the goal of ending worldwide extreme poverty and reducing global poverty in general has broad bipartisan support, in part thanks to your efforts to weigh in with your public officials.
I hope you are as encouraged by the House’s passage of the Global Poverty Act as I am. I’ll be pushing in the weeks ahead to get the Senate to pass the Global Poverty Act, and I hope you’ll join me by contacting your Senators directly. Thank you for your work. If you want to see my remarks in support of the bill, feel free to visit.
Sincerely,
Adam Smith
Member of Congress
February 14th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Fuck off, you fuzzy-headed globalist socialist cunt. If you are so concerned, give your own fucking money away.
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Very well said Darrell. Your a man after my own heart!
PLEASE go and read as much as you can about this bill and do not let the Global Warming, United States haters, Kumbaya, touchy feely folks woo you with happy thoughts and nonsense without telling you the facts. Facts like that this bill will allow the U.N. (you know, the same folks that gave us the oil for food scandal) the ability to levy a ‘global tax’ against the United States and other countries based on our GNP or use of Global resources. In the United States alone that means nearly $1 Trillion dollars in ADDITIONAL money to what we already give. Put another way that is about $500 to $600 per household per year!
Let the United States continue to be as WILLING contributor to fight poverty, not a forced one that is controlled by a U.N. that is run by a bunch of Third World Countries that would love to see America Weakened.
Be afraid..be very afraid.
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:25 am
I ran across this article online. The following is a excerpt:
Obama wants to end world poverty on your nickel and surrender the United States to the United Nation
By Vincent Gioia
March 12, 2008
Overlooked in the fervor to select a Democrat nominee is what Obama really stands for; we can only hope this will not be the case in the national election if Obama is chosen. There are many ideas proposed by Obama to criticize him about but one that stands out and has great implications is the Global Poverty Act Obama supports.
The Global Poverty Act (S.2433) would require the United States to spend $845 billion ($845,000,000,000.00) on welfare to third-world countries. This amounts to a tax of over $2,000 on each man, woman and child in the United States. The foreign aid budget now stands at $300 billion; the Act would add the additional expenditure to the already huge amount allocated to assist the world.
As Phyllis Schlafly wrote recently:
“Obama’s costly, dangerous and altogether bad bill (S. 2433), which could come up in the Senate any day, is called the Global Poverty Act. It would commit U.S. taxpayers to spend 0.7 percent of our Gross Domestic Product on foreign handouts…”
WorldNetDaily.com quotes Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media as saying:
“[T]he legislation, if approved, dedicates 0.7 percent of the U.S. gross national product to foreign aid, which over 13 years… would amount to $845 billion ‘over and above what the U.S. already spends. “The plan passed the House in 2007 ‘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.”
Obama’s ideas are downright frightening.
October 25th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Obamanomics: Trickle Up Poverty!