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Global Poverty Act of 2007
A bill 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 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.
Other Bill Titles (3 more)4/24/2008--Reported to Senate amended. Global Poverty Act of 2007 - Directs the President, through the Secretary of State, to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the U.S. foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme... moreSee Full Bill Text
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| December 07, 2007 |
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September 05, 2008 Accomplishments
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where are you guys getting the 845b from? i don't see amount in bill
the 845b came from fuzzy math by AIM's Cliff Kincade in some article/rant in Feb 2008 (his methods are for his calculation are unpublished). The rest of the blogosphere has republished this number unquestionly.
the truth is that the GBO estimates that it will cost only 1 million dollars to implement.
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By the way, I agree with ABNU; stop trying to pass bills designed to dip into the American citizens' pocket. Further, if those in Congress (both branches)feel the need to give the world money, why not take it our of YOUR private reserves of money. Maybe even use some of your contributing lobbyists' funds to cover the mega-billions this would take.
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(aside: I just found opencongress today....I LOVE IT!)
We should care about the poor...yes. But not before we fix our own house.
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fuck you
Our house will always be in disrepair. I just wish we could decide what America's economic policy should be and stick with it. Are we Capitalist, Communist, Facists, or the rich uncle who gives out free cars. This indecisiveness over where our money should go is strangling middle america. We cannot be all of the above.
In this bill I learned there is a ban on small arms which leaves the general public defenseless and enforcement would be enforced by UN troops, commits us to annual taxation of 7% of US gross national product. Many other items within this bill will be terrible for the average American and the American economy. I do not believe the average American knows Obama does not fly our American Flag. The middle American can barely feed his own, how does anyone in there right mind think they can feed a starving world? Are Americans being sold out?
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You are wrong here. Please read the bill carefully and do not disseminate false or misleading information. The bill is good for America because it helps reduce extreme poverty in the developing world which lifts all boats, economically speaking. Your 7% figure is grossly exaggerated. The actually figure is .7 percent of the GNP which is a figure that the United States and the rest of the developed world pledged to provide in Official Development Assistance over 30 years ago, and we have never even approached aid at those levels. We are far behind most other developed countries in helping other less advantaged people around the world. Most of our so-called foreign aid goes for military aid for just two countries: Israel and Egypt. In absolute numbers our humanitarian aid seems generous, but in percentage of GNP it is far below what smaller developed countries like Norway and Sweden and Denmark provide. We give less in humanitarian aid because our defense budget requires so much, trillions and trillions of dollars. Now we have to protect the rest of the world that has cut their military exprenditures in favor of domestic spending on such necessities as universal health care coverage and good schools. We have lousy schools and a lousy health insurance coverage.
Lets downsize military expenditures and use the money for national health care and better schools.
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I think that it is a shame that we can not fix the problems here in America but we seem to think that America has enough money to supply the world it's cures. I don't think our economy is reflecting that.
We need to take care of our own country. There are plenty of hungry people living here that the government seems to ignore. Black, white, red and yellow and any variations there-of living here should be our priority; NOT THE REST OF THE WORLD!!!!!!! Bob
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Live 8/G8. It's not the British so we're supposed to agree to having a percentage of our country's GDP/GNP income tax taken and sent overseas without a vote in Congress? This is taxation of out country's income for foreign governments. If it's not their goevernments, it's NGOs. The money taken out of our GDP/GNP income tax will be used by the governments and NGOs for their own people and the dollar getting to the guy on the street will be, maybe 15 cents and it won't be cash. No one is getting the US GDP/GNP tax money, but friends of the administration.
Obama wants to play with Hollywood and Singers. Please. 'yes we can.' A new dem tax on our country's income, so the President can pay off friends is ridiculous.
Check out detailed bill information on SB2433 <a href="http://www.statesurge.com/bills/26563" >HERE: </> http://www.statesurge.com/bills/26563
I've read the actual proposed legislation and this article is an extreme spin of what the actual bill says.
Read it for yourself.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:s2433:
The article below focuses on one paragraph and one sentence in particular:
(a) Strategy- The President, acting through the Secretary of State, and in consultation with the heads of other appropriate departments and agencies of the United States Government, international organizations, international financial institutions, the governments of developing and developed countries, United States and international nongovernmental organizations, civil society organizations, and other appropriate entities, shall 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 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.
Somehow they extrapolate that sentence to mean the the U.S. would somehow be mandated to follow everything in the Millennium Development Goals. Read the bill. It says NOTHING like that. The only thing it mentions is that the US would try to meet that one goal of helping global poverty. The bill does not say how the US will do this and it certainly does not place any tax or other mandate on the Gov't. That would be unconstitutional as Senator Obama knows as he was a Constitutional Lawyer at Univ of Chicago Law School for ten years. In fact it says, as you can see above, "The President shall shall develop and implement a comprehensive strategy......", this means the President has DISCRETION on how he will develop and implement such a strategy. There is NOTHING is this bill that suggest and certainly nothing that mandates how this gets done.
Why is it the responsibility of the United States taxpayers to pay even $1 to a foreign country? ITS NOT! We pay taxes in this country FOR our country...that is unless you are a foreigner and want to see the bankruptcy of America!
You are absolutely correct, there is NOTHING in the BILL. It is all fluff. But let's get real; we can't even take care of our own citizens in New Orleans. How do you think they would feel when our own public officials take valuable tax paying time to create a bill when we still have displaced families since 2005. Shame on us. Let's clean up our own backyard before we stick our noses in other places.
dogman here. Rburciar - please explain to me why I am responsible for the citizens in New Orleans?
So "Shall" means that if you want a wall painted red you Shall let the Painter decided the best strategy of getting the paint applied to the wall and in your mind that is somehow being misconstrued by us "common folk".
I think you miss everyones point in the that America doesn't want the red paint on the wall.
Or maybe that Obama has a Job in which HE is supposed to set goals for america NOW as a Senator not make us reach other countries Goals ahead of our own.
Creating equality by bringing the wealthy down to the poverty line is not something even the poor of America want.
Taxing my employer to the point he has no profit doesn't exactly make my job secure. Sure you will lower my taxes only because I will be unemployed and have to pay less taxes.
I mix the tax debate into this because these Senators just happen to be the ones who want to tax companies into a "balanced budget" situation with an extra 3/4 trillion dollars of spending in just this one bill.
Ooops did we forget to mention that in our television ad or youtube spots.
We already pay over 50 cents for every dollar we earn for our own country's taxes. We will have them raised again after the next election. I do give to help the poor here and in other countries. But it is my choice. I would rather give freely then to "give" by force. This bill is frightening to our country's autonomy. We are drowning economically due to our Senators/Representatives thinking our money is theirs to take.
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