[Tatze]

Sorry, I couldn't find a news source for this. The media would love to keep this quiet.

The House passed the bill in September, and the Senate passed it today. Soak the US taxpayers again to fund global liberal feel good crap. Obama wrote the bill. This is only the tip of the iceberg should he win the White House.

BOHICA!

[Tatze]

Here is a thread from yesterday talking about the bill being rammed through the committee.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969987/posts

[wilco200]

Don’t they have more important things to do like investigate baseball players and get autographs.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

At direct odds to this is any initiative to reduce "greenhouse gas" emissions.

"Greenhouse gases" = prosperity.

[misterrob]

The ideals are good but the apparatus sucks. Poverty makes for good terrorist recruiting and also support for dictators. However, whacking the tax payers of the US when we are the ones raising the world’s standard of living already is BS!!!

[FR Class of 1998]

Don’t be too surprised if Bush signs it.

[Bahbah]

I’ve been watching the Senate all morning. I have not seen this bill come up for a vote.

[maryz]

You mean it's really called that? -- I clicked on it to see who was hell-bent on assuring global poverty! ;-)

[TSchmereL]

BOHICA?

Grab Your Ankles! Vote for Cankles!

[cgk]

Wow.

[cgk]

Passed the House by voice vote?

[Just mythoughts]

I surely expect the master of the Senate McCain to pull the rug out from under this ‘earmark’ legislation.

[savedbygrace]

Latest Major Action: 2/13/2008 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.

IOW, it left committee on 2/13/08. No floor vote yet.

Did you do any research on the status of the bill before you hit the panic button?

[A_perfect_lady]

the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide who live on less than $1 per day.

Oh, well, let's feed them and put them on a government-funded allowance. Once they're no longer hungry, they'll have children and instead of a million people living on a dollar a day, we'll have five million living on two dollars a day. And it won't even cost $10 million a day. Because it's routed through the super-efficient government bureaucracy, it'll be $100,000,000 a day! But that's a small price to pay for that little glow of self-satisfaction that warms a liberal heart at the thought of taking $100 million from people they don't like in order to give $10 million to people they enjoy pitying from a safe distance but whom they wouldn't want in the house.

[listenhillary]

Cool! This means we will topple dicators and authoritarian governments world wide that are the leading cause of poverty. Right?

[Rurudyne]

Oh lookie ... something ELSE that has no authorization in the Constitution.

[From One - Many]

cover-up by no coverage by our media
the games our congress plays (it isn't baseball)
makes me wonder how much money was given to our congress
to formulate another tax on the working people of this nation.
Where the money goes, once in the hands of congress
with this new tax, is anyone's guess.
Thank God, our congress is on the American working family's side.
At least that is what these demonrats and rinos tell us!
I guess, I should type, thanks for the lies, congress.

[ScratInTheHat]

So you thought you didn’t like federal taxes?

Welcome to the United Nations Socialist Tax Plan!

The special offer to redistribute America’s wealth!

To all the globalism people. Be careful what you ask for you just might get it!

[Carry_Okie]

A fat lot of good it did to pull Arabs out of poverty with petrodollars.

[Tatze]

Can you please change the title to “Senate Committee Passes The Global Poverty Act of 2007”?

Thank you!

[RTO]

I thought it was the US Senate? When did it become the UN Senate? Time to melt down the Fax and phone lines!