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Obama Laments Debt, But Promises $50 Billion for UN Anti-Poverty Program

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-09-20 02:28|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 "Millennium Development Goals"

Check out who's a big proponent here.

The 'One' just took a cue from his Master and added a couple of zeros.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2008-09-20 08:07|| 2008-09-20 08:07|| Front Page Top

#2 .7% of GDP is $100 billion/year. If $50 billion won't fly with the voters then double down.

Posted by ed 2008-09-20 08:58|| 2008-09-20 08:58|| Front Page Top

#3 ed, stop assuming that anyone in Obama's campaign is actually familiar with economics. ;)

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2008-09-20 09:03|| 2008-09-20 09:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Barack Obama, who lamented Friday that "we have not managed our federal budget with any kind of discipline," is nonetheless promising to spend $50 billion on a United Nations anti-poverty program that critics say will drive up American debt.

You really thought that one through...

Posted by Raj 2008-09-20 09:24|| 2008-09-20 09:24|| Front Page Top

#5 The MDG's are the Holy Grail of UN scams. Does this true-believer tranzi really think that commie redistribution through the UN on a global scale is going to solve something? Or is there another motive? The only thing that has been proven to happen is those soul sucking bureauocratic leeches and despots will line their pockets with our money, and then like drug addled whores demand more.
The sooner we bail out of that pile of shit the better.
Over heard a saying in my new hometown the other day that would apply to both Barry and the UN: "They are both about as useful as tits on a bullfrog".

Posted by NCMike 2008-09-20 09:30|| 2008-09-20 09:30|| Front Page Top

#6 said Hanke, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. "It's basically a system to redistribute income from middle class people in the United States to rich people in poor countries. It never reaches those people who are living on a dollar a day."

I don't know - Obama should know a bit about people who live on a dollar a ~~day~~ month shouldn't he?

Funny how a person who allows his own brother to starve claims to give a rats arse about the poor.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-09-20 09:46|| 2008-09-20 09:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Throgh the UN? The oil for food scam will look like
kindergarten level play compared to this.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-09-20 10:22|| 2008-09-20 10:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Has anyone added up the amount of money that Obama has promised to throw away through UN programs? It would make for a good ad, especially now.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-09-20 11:43|| 2008-09-20 11:43|| Front Page Top

#9 It's basically a system to redistribute income from middle class people in the United States to rich people in poor countries.

But not to worry:

Biden said Thursday that paying more in taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans... "We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people," Biden said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Posted by Pappy 2008-09-20 12:32|| 2008-09-20 12:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Funny how a person who allows his own brother to starve claims to give a rats arse about the poor.

To be fair, I don't see why a person deserted by his father as a baby (I can't remember if Daddy Dearest went off to Harvard before or after little Barry was born) should concern himself about the fortunes of the numerous half-siblings said father spawned with a variety of women not Barry's mother, some of whom Daddy Dearest actually bothered to marry. Equally, a polite, "I'll see what I can do about all this when I get home," uttered while exploring said Daddy's family home to those still living there is really along the lines of, "We must get together for lunch sometime," not a binding promise for action... no matter that the denizens cling to their perception of unearnt riches flowing from America.

Barack Obama, esq. is rightfully concerned about the poor in his own country. Giving US$50 billion to the U.N. is my concern as a voter. The various Obama relatives back in Africa don't honestly interest me at all. He, and we, owe them nothing.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-09-20 13:23|| 2008-09-20 13:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Buy em all toilets. Flush whatever's left down them.

Posted by tu3031 2008-09-20 15:10|| 2008-09-20 15:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Shat..the numbers I've been seeing is more like 850 billion totoa. That's money leaving the US economy permanently. That's pure BS and pure tranzi socialism.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2008-09-20 16:26|| 2008-09-20 16:26|| Front Page Top

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