Posted on 02/19/2008 2:25:57 PM PST by John Semmens
The “Global Poverty Act of 2007” introduced by Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is on the brink of enactment by the U.S. Senate. A companion bill (H.R. 1302) passed in the House of Representatives last September. The legislation would obligate the United States to contribute an additional $90 billion per year to the United Nations to “fight global poverty.”
Obama called the bill “a down payment on America’s moral obligation to the poor of the world.” “I have always held that the principle guide to economic policy ought to be ‘from each according to his ability, to each according to his need,” Obama declared. “In my mind it is the ultimate standard of fairness. Americans have the ability to pay. The world is full of people who need our money. I aim to see that they get it.”
The senator cited the UN’s role in distributing the money as “source of the utmost confidence that the funds will be handled conscientiously and indiscriminately.” “The UN has been a leader in the global struggle for peace,” Obama asserted. “I can think of no better agency for ensuring that the riches of the Earth are distributed equitably.”
“The bill is just a first step in transforming the world,” Obama continued. “If I am fortunate enough to be elected president I hope to lead this country away from its exploitive past toward a new age of generosity. We will change our image from one of being the reaper of ill-gotten gains to that of global benefactor to the poor and dispossessed.”
In related news, Senator Obama’s “Patriot Corporation Act” has stirred concern that it bears too many similarities to Fascism. Under the bill, businesses that follow government prescribed standards on wages, prices, and production would get tax advantages and preferences on government contracts.
Obama called these concerns “overblown.” “When people see the word ‘Fascist’ they tend to think ‘Hitler,’” Obama said. “They should be thinking Mussolini. Before he made the mistake of joining Hitler in his disastrous war, Mussolini had a very successful program of government-business collaboration. This is the model for my bill.”
“Let me remind you, President Roosevelt was a great admirer of Mussolini,” Obama pointed out. “Il Duce brought order and prosperity to a country ravaged by depression. That is all I’m trying to do with my bill and will be trying to do as president.”
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Till I read the part about the utmost confidence in the UN distributing the money fairly I believed it.
He is determined to ensure that we go beyond relieving the poverty of 3rd world bureaucrats and dictators by spreading the largesse to the deprived bureaucrats of the U.N.
Now where have I heard THAT before????
ping
By what totally ridiculous logic am I obliged to agree to be reduced to an impoverished slave in Obama's global plantation?
You sure that’s satire?
;)
“I have always held that the principle guide to economic policy ought to be ‘from each according to his ability, to each according to his need,” Obama declared. “In my mind it is the ultimate standard of fairness.”
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The definition of socialism.
That’s what makes it so much better than The Onion or Scrappleface......
Wrong. It is the definition of Communism.
“We will change our image from one of being the reaper of ill-gotten gains to that of global benefactor to the poor and dispossessed”
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What ‘ill-gotten gains’ is he referring to?
The dislike for our country coming from this man is scary!
Satire, duh?
Oops, after Michelle Obama’s comments today about being proud of America for the first time in ther adult life, I was willing to accept this as legit. My bad.
"McCain. Because someone has to go to work."
OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!!!!
Damn!
Until I got to this little gem, I forgot about this paper's fame for satire...
Sadly, 80% of voters can't identify what's wrong with that statement.
*shudder*
$90 BILLION a year - WOW, that means hundreds, maybe even thousands will get past the scam artist, the con men, the middle men, the brokers, the lobbyists, the political machines, the war lords and the Clintons and actually make it to some ‘Po folks’ somewhere.
This is why I will vote for McCain.
Where?
It’s really telling when satire sounds so viable!
Somewhere a very old KGB agent is laughing himself to death at our stupidity.
OMG!
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