Statistics showed that only the Netherlands, Denmark, Luxembourg, Sweden and Norway were able to meet the 0.7 percent U.N. aid target.

Do you think everyone is living in palaces in Canada ? Think we don't have homeless people ? Ever see OUR gas prices up here ?

The Growing Homeless in America
The Often Unseen Turn of America's Morgage Crisis
By Charlene S Noto, May 22, 2008
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/777159/the_growing_homeless_in_america.html

The working classes subjected to America's subprime mortgage crisis are building the nation's homeless.
According to an April 2008 report by the National Coalition for the Homeless, the top 10 states with foreclosures attributed to 73% of the homeless. Those states were: California, Florida, Ohio, Texas, Michigan, Georgia, Illinois, Colorado, Arizona, and Nevada. In 2007 the top 10, consisting of California, Florida, Texas, New York, Arizona, Ohio, Georgia, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Virginia, attributed to 58% of the homeless. The top 10 map is changing and the homeless are spreading out.

What is it about this, specifically, that troubles you? And how, exactly, is our sovereignty in question?

In recent years the United Nations has assembled 'peace keeping forces' from participating nations. The US has participated heavily in these activities. In a number of instances, US troops have been instructed to put on UN insignias and serve under the command of foreign commanders. In some cases, individual servicemen have refused to serve under foreign commanders and have been summarily subject to court martial and dishonorable discharge. The legal arguments of these soldiers have been that upon joining the US Military they made a commitment to defend the Constitution of the US and that service under foreign commanders in an international army was not part of the agreement.
The UN is to be a forum for peace among nations, where disagreements can be resolved before war and hostilities erupt. The UN should not intrude upon the sovereign rights of peoples and governments to manage their own affairs. There is a danger in giving the UN a standing army. There is a danger in making nations subject and liable to mandated controls by the UN.

Who Owns World Heritage Sites?
http://www.americanpolicy.org/un/seventyonemore.htm
Seventy One More United Nation's Heritage Sites Planned

Many Americans have been disturbed to find that there are 22 areas in this nation that have been designated as United Nations' World Heritage Sites. These sights are natural places such as parks or cultural monuments like Tom Jefferson's home, Monticello.

As a result of a UN treaty called "The Convention Concerning Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage," such sites come under the jurisdiction of the United Nations' Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Such designations have been the source of major debate as to whether the UN has gained control of sovereign American territory.

However, the debate may be about to rage even hotter. Because a quick look at the UNESCO web site on the World Wide Web reveals a list of 71 more sites, located within 32 states, that have been proposed for future United Nations' World Heritage Area ..,
The designation of United Nations' World Heritage Sites and Biosphere Reserves can and does result in the centralization of policy-making authority at the federal level, particularly by the Executive Branch. Once a UN designation is made and accepted by the Federal Government there is literally no opportunity for private American land owners to dispute it or undo the designation.

Private property rights literally disappear, not only in the officially designated area, but worse, in buffer zones OUTSIDE the designated area. Not only has the federal government been using these treaties and agreements to limit access to, and use of, these lands to all Americans, but they also have used the UN designations to limit use of private property OUTSIDE the boundaries of the site …

But "time" has now become the worst enemy of the American Lands Sovereignty Protection Act (S.2098). Because if Senate action is not taken before the 105th Congress adjourns in October, the bill will die. The process will have to start all over again in the 106th Congress.

The American Lands Sovereignty Protection Act (S.2098) represents the best great hope that Americans, who love their sovereign nation, have ever been able to muster against the United Nations' land grab. To save our liberties, S.2098 must not be allowed to die. Now is the time to mount a massive fight in the U.S. Senate to pass it.

As for OUR economy, Obama wants (for example) to shift the tax burden from the Americans you are talking about (losing homes, closing businesses, etc.) to the gazillionaires who have received huge tax breaks under Bush....and to create affordable health insurance for all Americans....and to stop subsidizing the oil barons with our tax money....those are good things (and real)...right?

oneblend, I am not sure I understand your issue with the Global Poverty Act. Is there something in there that I'm missing that would mean more real difficulty to average Americans?

This isn't about forcing Americans to donate their hard earned dollars to global causes...

Did you read the article I "Copied & Pasted ???
Did you see the word FORCE injected in there several times ???
Do you not understand the meaning of;
"TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION" ???

ELECTION 2008
Obama bill: $845 billion
more for global poverty
Democrat sponsors act OK'd by Senate panel
that would cost 0.7% of gross national product

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56405

Sen. Barack Obama, perhaps giving America a preview of priorities he would pursue if elected president, is rejoicing over the Senate committee passage of a plan that could end up costing taxpayers billions of dollars in an attempt to reduce poverty in other nations.
The bill, called the Global Poverty Act, is the type of legislation, "We can – and must – make … a priority," said Obama, a co-sponsor.
When word about what appears to be a massive new spending program started getting out, the reaction was immediate.
"It's not our job to cut global poverty," said one commenter on a Yahoo news forum. "These people need to learn how to fish themselves. If we keep throwing them fish, the fish will rot."

Many Americans were alerted to the legislation by a report from Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media. He published a critique asserting that while the Global Poverty Act sounds nice, the adoption could "result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States" and would make levels "of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations."

"In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that (U.N.) declaration commits nations to banning 'small arms and light weapons' and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention of Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Convention of the Rights of the Child," he said.
Those U.N. protocols would make U.S. law on issues ranging from the 2nd Amendment to energy usage and parental rights all subservient to United Nations whims.

And the only way to raise that funding, Sachs confirms, "is through a global tax, preferably on carbon-emitting fossil fuels," Kincaid writes.

On the forum run by Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, one writer reported estimates of taxes from 35 cents to $1 dollar a gallon on gasoline would be needed.

"This is disgusting, sickening and angers me to the depths of my soul," the forum author wrote. "Obama wants us to support the world. I wonder how they intend to eliminate poverty. Most of the money always winds up in some dictator hands and in the U.N. coffers."

WND calls to Obama's office, as well as the offices of others who supported the plan, were not successful in obtaining a comment.

ACCURACY IN MEDIA
The Candidates’ Communist Connections
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-candidates-communist-connections/

Senator McCain’s communist connections consist of bombing the communists during the Vietnam War and then being shot down, badly injured, captured, and tortured by them. On the other hand, Senator Barack Obama was mentored by an identified Communist Party member in Hawaii who had functioned as a Stalinist agent. That was before Obama developed cordial relationships with communist terrorists who openly supported the communist regime that tortured McCain and killed 58,000 of our fellow Americans.

McCain was on the American side during the Vietnam War. He personally risked his life and carried out the U.S. policy of resisting the communist military conquest of South Vietnam. Obama had friendly associations with those who had been on the other side and they helped launch his political career in Chicago. Obama can’t solve this problem by occasionally wearing an American flag lapel pin.

Keep in mind that we are not talking about associating with those who simply opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Obama’s friends, such as Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, cheered for a communist victory and visited Havana, Cuba and Hanoi, North Vietnam to bring that about. Like his comrades in the communist Students for a Democratic Society, Tom Hayden of “Progressives for Obama” wrote a letter urging a communist military victory over the U.S. These were people who actually supported the enemy

Significantly, the basic facts of the Obama-Davis relationship were originally disclosed by Professor Gerald Horne, a contributing editor of the Communist Party journal Political Affairs, who talked about Obama coming under the influence of Davis during a speech at the reception of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) archives at the Tamiment Library at New York University.

Horne, a history professor at the University of Houston, noted that Davis, who had moved to Honolulu from Kansas in 1948 “at the suggestion of his good friend [and secret CPUSA member] Paul Robeson,” came into contact with Obama and his family. As Horne describes it, Davis “befriended” a “Euro-American family” that had “migrated to Honolulu from Kansas and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama, who retracing the steps of Davis eventually decamped to Chicago.”

However, in Obama’s 1995 book, Dreams from My Father, Frank Marshall Davis was identified only as “Frank.” Among other things, according to Obama’s own account, “Frank” told him that blacks had a reason to hate and that he should not believe all of that (expletive deleted) about the American way of life.

When one of Senator Hillary Clinton’s supporters brought up the issue of Davis’s influence over Obama, by circulating an article I had written for AIM about Davis playing the role of Obama’s mentor, he was pilloried by the left-wing blogs. The reaction suggests awareness that the role of Davis in the formation of Obama’s political views could sink the candidate. They are desperate to keep this information suppressed.

So how long will Obama’s cover-up persist?

There are many in the liberal and conservative media who want desperately to avoid this subject. The liberals want to protect Obama. The “conservatives” avoiding the subject don’t want to be accused of “McCarthyism” if they mention it. But thanks to Farah’s WorldNetDaily and other new media outlets, the story is coming out and won’t be ignored

GGGEESSHHH...we cant even manage to balance our own budget LET ALONE A BUDGET FOR THE WHOLE WORLD....ARE THESE PEOPLE ON CRACK OR WHAT?

they are using his race to push this marxist man into office

Why everyone loves to pin this on Obama is beyond me. He was chair of the committee that Bush originated. The Global Poverty Act was Bush's idea, and it was voted through by something like 95-99% approval from the Senate. Talk about a childish rant.

Oh look, a black guy started a post on how great barack obama is... what a shock!

If all you Canadians think barack is so wonderful then you can have him. PLEASE! TAKE HIM! Yeah, I know he was elected as president of the United States...
BUT ITS NOT LIKE HE WAS BORN HERE!

The white majority of America are stupid if you think Barack Obama is good for the USA. You're nothing but white sheep being led to the slaughter by him.

Nothing like a little race baiting before going off into conspiracy nut territory.