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2008-07-25 Home Front: Politix

Obama Bill: $2500+ From Every American To World's Poor via UN

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-07-25 09:22|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Keep your commie, wealth redistribution to your self, asscheese. You wanna redistribute wealth, use your own.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-07-25 09:29|| 2008-07-25 09:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Kiss my skinny white ass, Barry.

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-25 09:37|| 2008-07-25 09:37|| Front Page Top

#3 This guy, along with a bunch of others need to have an accident. The Call to Arms point is getting closer and closer.

Posted by Grease Dark Lord of the Algonquins9226 2008-07-25 10:16|| 2008-07-25 10:16|| Front Page Top

#4 I say if we're going to dig everybody's hole $2500 deeper, then we might as well get something for it. I say use it to take out the remainder of the countries on the planet who are just a thorn in everyone else's side.

Posted by gorb 2008-07-25 10:24|| 2008-07-25 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 gorb's right. It's not like they'll like us more for the money or hate us less for the conquest. Let's get something for the money.

Oh and obammy's an idiot.

Posted by Hellfish 2008-07-25 10:31|| 2008-07-25 10:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Why does the U.S. have to bankroll the entire world?
Norway, Sweeden, Belgium, CHINA, Russia, Australia, and a host of other countries all have plenty of bank too. So why does this ballsack want to soak us and nobody else? Divide it between 10 countries and ding us for $250 apiece. Americans dont mind helping people, we never have minded, but we don't like getting hustled either.

Posted by bigjm-ky 2008-07-25 11:20|| 2008-07-25 11:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Considering the UN administered Oil-for-Bribes program, its a UN bureaucrat's lotto. Nothing more, nothing less. It's the Chicago way, of buying votes of the elite.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-07-25 11:33|| 2008-07-25 11:33|| Front Page Top

#8 The point is not to do anything about poverty but to feel good about ourselves whatever the cost. Pouring money into places without free markets or the rule of law is such an obvious, glaring waste of resources it can't have anything to do with economics. The explanation lies in psychology, particularly the minds of over privileged elites who have no clue as to how their privileges arose or what keeps them afloat. It is balm for the conscience of the ignorant.

Posted by Baba Tutu 2008-07-25 13:11|| 2008-07-25 13:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Nawlens has proved that pouring money into any place willing to sit back and accept largess without any effort is a waste of $. Screw them all.

Posted by wxjames 2008-07-25 13:32|| 2008-07-25 13:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Well I think the point here is that this is taking charity from a voluntary thing to a govt. mandated asset grab. And eventually to a UN mandated grab on American citizens' money. Once they get their hooks into us they will bleed us dry. Americans have always dug deep and given big to the rest of the world, without being forced to give by law. This should be snuffed out immediately and without the slightest ambiguity. We are rapidly approaching the need for another whiskey rebellion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion

Posted by bigjm-ky 2008-07-25 13:39|| 2008-07-25 13:39|| Front Page Top

#11 Foreign aid has generally polled as one of the least popular programs. Nevertheless, Transi and most StateDept apparachniks have been successful over the past decades in increasing this item.

It will be more difficult for them in the next administration. There is now plenty of academic research which correlates foreign aid with dictator longevity, plenty of documentation of foreign aid being stolen, being diverted to terrorist support, etc.

A future president Obama would have a tough fight on his hands to drastically increase foreign aid even with a democratic majority in both houses.

If the McCain people are smart, they'll let Obama make this a centerpiece of his campaign and then hammer him on it.

Posted by mhw">mhw 2008-07-25 14:46|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2008-07-25 14:46|| Front Page Top

#12 $2,500? $250? I wouldn't give these dopes $.25. Here's a news flash to the rest of the world - get off your own asses, raise the children you were grown up enough to produce, fix your govt's and quit asking us for handouts. Oh, and fuck you to Obama.

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-07-25 15:09|| 2008-07-25 15:09|| Front Page Top

#13 I think it depends on the country, the UN is not the intermediary you want handling it regardless. But there are people in this world that are grateful and hardworking, and don't chant Death to America in the streets. They just have a shitty govt. or economy and need an extra bump to get them started. I have no probs at all with giving to people like that. Ukraine is a good example I think. Israel is another. Columbia is starting to look that way, still some probs with corruption there, but they are working hard to turn it around. So I think the UN is out, but there are a few countries that can do good for themselves with a little help.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-25 16:17|| 2008-07-25 16:17|| Front Page Top

#14 Fuck NO!!!

Posted by 3dc 2008-07-25 17:41|| 2008-07-25 17:41|| Front Page Top

#15 If it's our money, yet we have no say in what is done with it, how close is this to "taxation without representation"?

Posted by Rex Mundi 2008-07-25 18:15|| 2008-07-25 18:15|| Front Page Top

#16 We've already paid through the nose for their benefit due to globalization and increased immigration. Just think how much better off this country would be if we had never had the post-1965 immigration reforms. Population would be down, gas demand would be down, societal cohesiveness would be up, budgets would be in better shape...the list is endless. The rest of the world brought a lot of its garbage to us and dumped it. Thanks for nothing. Screw them and the horse they rode in on.

I've already said that if Obama gets in two things will rise exponentially: taxes and the number of anti-black racists. I was wrong: it's three things: taxes, anti-black racists, and tax cheats.

Posted by Jomock Platypus9662 2008-07-25 20:33|| 2008-07-25 20:33|| Front Page Top

#17 ION REDDIT/FREEREPUBLIC > SCIENTISTS: MORE GLOBAL WARMING WILL RESULT IN LESS/FEWER WEATHER STORMS. IOW, More SOLAR HEAT will overwhelm the Earth's natural mechanisms for producing storms; + REDDIT/RENSE > PERSONAL LAPTOPS CAN NOW BE CHECKED AND DOWNLOADED AT US BORDER CHECKPOINTS.

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D *** NG IT, MSM > JUST BECUZ WE DEMANDED DUBYA NOT ATTACK THE SUN DOESN'T MEAN HE HAD TO LISTEN TO US, THUSLY ITS DUBYA's FAULT FOR NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT WE REALLY MEANT WHEN WE DIDN'T TELL HIM = DEMANDED HE DO THE OPPOSITE!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-07-25 21:07|| 2008-07-25 21:07|| Front Page Top

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