Or take away your 2nd Amendment rights. (so he claims)

But he surely has no problem letting the U.N. do it.

This is his bill.

Sounds pretty awesome.

Until you read the fine print.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill...bill=s110-2433

http://obama.senate.gov/press/071211-obama_hagel_can/

Arguably no greater problem faces the world than global poverty. Nearly 2.7 billion people live on less than $2 a day and close to a billion people live on less than $1 a day. We have a moral obligation to craft an overall U.S. strategy to decrease global poverty and eliminate extreme global poverty. After introducing this measure in the House for the past several years, I was pleased to see it pass this year with overwhelming bipartisan support. This bill’s Senate introduction is a significant step toward it becoming law,” Representative Adam Smith said.
The Global Poverty Act:

* Declares it official U.S. policy to promote the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of cutting extreme global poverty in half by 2015.

* Requires the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to carry out that policy.

* Includes guidelines for what the strategy should include - from aid, trade, and debt relief, to working with the international community, businesses and NGOs, to ensuring environmental sustainability.

* Requires that the President’s strategy include specific and measurable goals, efforts to be undertaken, benchmarks, and timetables.

* Requires the President to report back to Congress on progress made in the implementation of the global poverty strategy.


If this goes through Americans will pay taxes to the U.N. (A percentage of our GDP, roughly a 13-year total of $845,000,000,000.00.....keep in mind that taxpayers already hand out around $300 billion a year in foreign aid). Yes, a global tax.

This will also commit America to adhering to the Millenium Development Goals.
• To take concerted action to end illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons,especially by making arms transfers more transparent and supporting regional disarmament measures...
Among “eradication of poverty” by the “redistribution of wealth and land”, this commits nations to banning “small arms and light weapons”. This could even lead to U.N. "peacekeepers" doing house to house checks for illegal weapons.

Note: I'm still researching this to see what's what, but so far I don't like what I'm hearing. So either take it for what it is, or do your own research also.