UNacceptable

I'm just learning of a new House of Representatives sneak attack called the Global Poverty Act. Sponsered by Dem Adam Smith from Washington. It was passed quietly last fall and will now be coming up for Senate review. The sponser in the Senate? Obama.

In Mr. Smith's words, "It's time that the United States take a more aggressive role in helping the one billion people worldwide who live on less than $1 a day". Very noble of those in the House to decide on a new charity for taxpayers to support; at only $845 billion over the next dozen years. But the real issue is that they've sought to tie the Bill to much broader goals promoted by the U.N.. Here's where our antenna should go up!

This would tie us to the United Nations Millennium Declaration, which among other things calls for banning "small arms and light weapons" and ratifying the Kyoto Accord, the International Criminal Court Treaty and the Convention on Biological Diversity. All U.N. pet projects and liberal "feel good" stuff. Which really means that we should turn and run in the other direction.

If we really want to fight poverty, we can do it without the U.N.'s waste, inefficiency and ulterior motives.

Thank goodness the some daylight is starting to shine on this Bill. It will not survive now. At least not in this form. At least not until President Obama is ready to sign it into law.

Oh God. Did I really just type that?!