It is a disgrace that Senator Obama's Global Poverty Act, which has already passed the House , is getting no mainstream media attention.  I checked the CNN, Fox, ABC, CBS, and NY Times websites, and I found nothing on the Global Poverty Act.  If not forWorld Net Daily.com, the Center for Individual Freedom, and GOPUSA I would know nothing about this important bill.
    The Global Poverty Act, S. 2433, requires the President along with the Sec. of State to develop plans to alleviate global poverty.  The Global Poverty Act relies on the Millennium Development Goals in the UN Millennium Declaration.  In addition to banning small arms, what about the Second Amendment ?, this bill  requires the US to ratifying a series of treaties. This sounds like an end around run to me. There is good reason some of these treaties have not been ratified.  These treaties are the Kyoto Protocol, the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
    How are we going to pay for this nonsense?  The Global Poverty Act takes 0.7% of the US gross national product to foreign aid.  In 13 years, according to Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media, this aid will cost $845 Billion more than the US is already spending.  The liberals are planning to raise taxes already, and the bums haven't even won the White House yet.
    There is more garbage in this bill than I have time to describe here.  Please contact your senators to kill The Global Poverty Act.