October 8, 2008 at 6:36 pm

That’s all well and good, but how about helping the thousands in the same predicament in this country????? Wake up.

October 8, 2008 at 7:17 pm

So why don’t you give George Bush credit in your TV add?

October 8, 2008 at 7:57 pm

Boy, I thought I’d seen everything. While what is proposed on this website seems very sweet and syrupy, lets be clear. We pray that the people of the world could be free of hunger and poverty.
What really is planned is Agenda 21, with the corrupt UN at the helm.
The name ONE makes it crystal clear that your agenda is a One World Government, Lucifers plan. How will you be rewarded? Can you handle it?

October 8, 2008 at 8:06 pm

Keep Our Commitments

Even in tough economic times, we want to make sure the next president, no matter who that is, keeps his commitment to fighting global poverty.

The total spent on all poverty-fighting programs make up less than one percent of the entire U.S. budget, yet we are saving millions of lives and helping the world’s poorest people break free from crippling poverty. These efforts will be even more critical as the effects of any global economic slowdown are magnified in already struggling countries.

I just took action with ONE to tell my leaders to keep their promises to the world’s poor, and you can too, here:

http://www.one.org/keepourcommitments/?rc=koctaf

October 9, 2008 at 12:57 am

Debbie K – Where do you think the U.S. budget comes from huh? How about the tax payers pocket? It’s absolutely fine by me that you give your money away for the greater good of whomever you give it to. It’s an absolute shame that you’ve decided for me that I have enough to spare so as to “donate” some for someone else to have. That’s wonderful. Thanks. Lots and lots of thanks for that.

Unfortunately, Obama will become president, and will carry this out, along with stripping me of some of my remaining freedoms. Take from me and give to someone else. But hey, that’s fair, right? After all, I’m the one who busted my butt to get what I’ve got. I should then be forced by government to give away some of that. ….uh, huh….right. Tell you what….how about you post up your physical address, and after I find out what Obama’s wonderful “save the world” through the sweat of my brow plan(s) is/are going to cost me every year, I come to your place and collect that back for myself. How’s that for fair? If it’s not fair, then how about me coming and collecting some of your stuff and giving it to the more impovershed here? Will that be fair? I think so. Yeah, go ahead and post up your physical address, I think that’s a wonderful plan. After all, if you can decide what’s fair for me to give to others, I can do the same for you. Welcome to “fair”.

October 9, 2008 at 8:18 am

FYI -

For anybody who actually has been visiting the ONE Blog since it started, they would know the answer to Steve’s uninformed question above.

I have raised THREE children as a single parent. During the last twenty years, I have struggled to maintain my family while living in real poverty here in the USA. I AM A WORKING POOR PERSON WHO ALSO PAYS TAXES and who completely SUPPORTS THE GOALS OF ONE.

As a person living in poverty in this country, I have a real idea of the challenges that women and children face around the world who do not have the programs that we have here in this country which attempt to help those living in poverty in the USA.

Before people in this forum spout off their mouths and show their real ignorance of ONE, our goals and ONE members, I would encourage them to spend more time learning about what they are trying to be “experts” on and less time ASS -U-MING that they have all the answers in the world.

Humility is a God-given trait which most of these recent posters in the ONE Blog would do well to acquire.

I HAVE TO GO TO WORK NOW – to pay for the bailout of those “poor” people on Wall Street.

I AM….AND ALWAYS WILL BE ~

ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE – debbie
http://www.mpwn-uganda.org

October 9, 2008 at 4:22 pm

Life is not “fair” (the favorite word of 5 year olds)… we’re working on being just.

October 9, 2008 at 5:49 pm

I have known poverty, several years ago I made $12,000.00 for the year. I never received food stamps but I did get food at the church food bank that I volunteered at. I considered my food as payment for the work.
I made arrangments with my mortgage company to make partial payments until I got a better job. Did my children and I struggle, yes certainly. My sons learned to manage money and that hard work is its own reward. They learned that your word is valuable, my bank got paid as promised and are willing to work with me.
My parents taught me to rely on myself alone, that is what I taught to my boys. Funny thing, they didn’t realize we were poor..

October 9, 2008 at 6:16 pm

Great to hear your story, Diane. Thank you for sharing it.

Hopefully your family’s experiences with poverty has opened your heart up to those in our world who have no social structures to help them out – where there are no churches with food banks to help feed them.

Anybody who has struggled with poverty (even if they didn’t know that they were poor) and does not have a heart for the people around the world who have even less than us has simply NOT learned the lesson that GOD would want us to learn – “what you do to the least of these, you do to me”.

How can you argue against the wisdom of those words?

AS ONE, debbie
http://www.mpwn-uganda.org

October 10, 2008 at 12:49 am

Debbie K –

I didn’t ask an uninformed question. My entire post was a statement. Unfortunately, you can’t discern the difference. While I’m not in the place to question weather or not you’ve actually raised three children on your own, I am however in a place that will allow me to question your sanity. (I’d have been nice but you called me an ass. It’s that whole “treat others the way you want to be treated” thing. You know, something that God pretty much said. Like when you quoted the bible with “…what you do to the least of these, you do to me.” You ma’am are a hypocrite. How convienent for you to use that statement. Since you want to quote from the bible, you should instead think about “…Thou shall not steal.” It’s a commandment. One.org, whom you have wholeheartedly backed, supports people who want to take something that isn’t theirs. Again, you are a hypocrite.)

I’m also a working stiff. I don’t make a lot of money. I make enough to support my wife and child, pay the bills, and I have a little left over for entertainment. It’s not a lot. Sometimes I have to save up for a couple of months in order to make sure I can take my wife out to dinner and have enough fuel left to get home. As I previously stated, if you want to support others with your charitable contributions, feel free, more power to you. It’s also your right to support a dirtbag organization such as “One.org”. But since they’re doing their best to support an ideology that takes from me and gives to others not of my own volition, and you’re supporting them, shame on you. I choose not to support One.org or any other people or organization that would like to redistribute what little I have to others.

For your next paragraph, I’m going to out-and-out call you a liar. As a poor person in this country, you know the hardships faced by women and children in other countries? Really? When was the last time you actually went there and took a look for yourself? Yeah, that’s what I thought. It didn’t happen. Because you are poor. You’ve raised three children on your own. You don’t know their hardships, you know about them. That’s entirely different. You’re a fool to think otherwise. More acurately, foolish and altruistic.

One.org is the social mouthpiece for S.2433. It’s a bill brought before congress by a few individuals, one of which is Barack Obama. It proposes that some of the worlds ills be taken care of on the backs of U.S. tax payers. This piece of legislation will help usher in a “one” world government.

Oh and FYI~

I’ve read the piece of crap bill that is S.2433. I’ve educated myself on what One.org supports. For those that haven’t, please read that bill. Find out what they want to do with your money. Then come back here and “shoot your mouth(s) off.” Like me.

For Andrea C.~

You’re right. Life isn’t fair. But let’s have you not try and fool others that “we’re working on being just”. Fair carries with it some amount of mercy. “Just” just doesn’t. It isn’t “just” to pay out to the world from the pockets of the people. Where is “just” for me when this gets signed into law huh? Answer me that.

October 10, 2008 at 5:19 pm

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October 10, 2008 at 5:36 pm

Debbie,
You must be young so I understand how you missed the point of my story. I expect nothing free, even the “free” food. I felt the need to work for it. I dont want charity.

I know that many Countries have true poverty but Americans have given billions to these poor Countries but it is stolen from the people by corrupt leaders or sold on the black market.

Read between the lines, the Global poverty act will not elimnate poverty but enrich the UN, a global tax. We will continue aid to the poor but it should remain a choice not a tax obligation.

October 11, 2008 at 3:07 pm

Hey all,

I hope everyone is enjoying the weekend. I love spirited discussion, but let’s please remember to remain respectful of one another’s opinions, even when disagreeing. Insults or name-calling is not acceptable. Please refer to our comment guide if you have any questions: http://www.one.org/blog/some-comments-on-commenting/

Best,

Chris, one.org

October 11, 2008 at 6:40 pm

Thanks Chris.