The author of the original piece is David A. Keene of the American Conservative Union.
"How do liberals fight poverty? They make more people poor.
No, it makes no sense whatsoever, but if you're a liberal, it's a viable solution... after all, it's 'fair'."
Yes, clearly "the liberals" just want all Americans to be poor! Why didn't we see this before?!
"Of course, we're talking about the newest liberal-inspired plan to allow a United Nations style tax on American citizens.
It's the Global Poverty Act (S.2433), and according to some conservative sources, this sickening bill could potentially force the United States to spend as much as $845,000,000,000.00 on welfare to third-world countries."
Well I'm certainly glad that Mr. Keene used unbiased and completely reliable (yet unnamed) "conservative sources" for his attack against a bill proposed by a Democratic senator! I would have been worried that I wasn't getting the whole story!
"$845 BILLION is hardly a drop in the bucket and, yes, that's in addition to our Foreign Aid programs, which, in 2006, cost American taxpayers almost $300 BILLION!"
It seems completely reasonable to me to be so concerned about how much the US spends on foreign aid while having no problem whatsoever with the enormous amounts of money flowing from the US into Israel. Perhaps foreign aid becomes money worth spending when it's used to help kill Palestinian Arabs? Why eradicate poverty in developing countries when we can focus all our resources on eradicating an entire group of people in the name of fighting terrorism? Why help people in need when we've got ours?
"But make no mistake -- for those of us who are compassionate -- you can be sure that most of that money will do little to alleviate poverty or help the needy.
If we allow history to be our guide, we can be certain that the most of the money will be gobbled up by third-world tyrants and bureaucrats, who live in heavily guarded palaces and drive gold-plated Rolls-Royces while their people starve by the millions or die of preventable diseases."
If I wasn't so sure that Mr. Keene had done proper research using the most reliable sources, I might have accused him of fearmongering. I'm sure he has loads and loads of rock-solid evidence (that he just hasn't shown us) that if the US were to close its collective eyes, point anywhere on a map, and send aid to the selected country, that money would only be used to buy another gold-plated Rolls Royce for some cackling handlebar-mustachioed Third World Supervillain. Poor countries are always, without exception, ruled by tyrant dictators who would like nothing better than to steal from America's coffers!
"If the Democrat-controlled Congress passes this bill, the United States will have taken the first step toward the complete surrender of our national sovereignty."
Indeed. Everyone knows that improving the quality of life for poor people around the world will only lead to the US losing its autonomy!
"The amount of money alone should be sufficient to toss this bill into the Capitol Hill dumpster.
But more -- much more -- may be at stake, because this monstrous bill starts us down a very dangerous path!
Specifically, Obama's bill would require that 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 reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal.'
And just who are these 'international organizations' and 'international nongovernmental organizations' and 'other appropriate entities?'
You guessed it!
To translate this gobbledygook, we're talking about the United Nations (among other things).
After all, the Millennium Development Goal is a United Nations creation. So essentially we'll do what the United Nations tells us to do -- something they don't have the right to do.
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It's blood-boiling to see Members of the United States Senate -- like robots -- putting us into a position to carry out the whims of third-world despots and tyrants and crooks.
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It's clearly time to break the kneecaps of the United Nations, before these third-world despots, tyrants, dictators and ayatollahs bankrupt us."
You... you mean this whole 'article' was just a poorly disguised, paranoid Orwellian rant about the UN? Say it isn't so! That dig against Iran was so cleverly nestled in there that I almost missed it, but the only thing that could have improved Mr. Keene's argument would be a more detailed unmasking of Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
