Sombody read this before you vote!

After a lack luster start to his Senate career, Barack Obama now has a bill heading out of committee that gives a true picture of what he has in mind for America—what he plans to change, if you will. (Apparently, the House passed this POS without knowing much about it. The Democrats rushed it through before it cot a thorough hearing and the same is being attempted in the Senate.)

Barack Obama's Global Tax Proposal Up for Senate Vote

The bill [(S.2433)], which has the support of many liberal religious groups, makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations.

He wants the US to simply hand over its (our) money to the United Nations so they of the Oil For Food, rape brigade can see that it gets spent wisely to do…well, just about everything except cure the common cold. (As we’ll see a little later.)

“How much money are we talking about?” you ask.

The legislation would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the U.S. already spends.

That’s a whole lot of moolah to be throwing at the Ivory Tower crowd. (Not that their goals aren’t Ivory Tower stuff, for they definitely are. No, the crowd at the UN wants to LIVE in the Ivory Tower with gold faucets on every sink, marble floors, etc. And they want to do it on your and my dime.)

Where’s the money coming from?

And the only way to raise that kind of money, Sachs has written, is through a global tax, preferably on carbon-emitting fossil fuels.

Well now, that will certainly go a long way to keeping the cost of gasoline(used in transporting almost every single item you buy) and home heating fuel down.

But wait! There’s more.

In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that 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 on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Mighty lofty goals. And each and every one of them requires we, the USA, forfeit our sovereignty.

We must submit to an International Criminal Court. And I’m sure that court would have just the right mix of sitting judges to find every fault it could with…oh, say our First Amendment. Try criticizing one of the mullahs in print and you’ll get hauled before the International Criminal Court. Try to prevent a barbaric dictator from performing genocide? It’s the International Court for you!

Like to hunt or shoot or just defend yourself as per the Second Amendment? Forget about it. The UN wants to ban all small arms so that .30-.30 deer rifle will have to get melted down. Let’s not even talk about your 9mm Glock.

Kyoto Treaty. You know, the one that says we can’t “pollute” but it’s just fine for India and China to keep right on building a coal fired generation station each week. Hey, if it means our economy goes in the tank, it’s okay. After all we wouldn’t want the oceans to rise a couple of centimeters because of us. Oh, and ignore all the snow and ice and the fact the global temperatures have been stable for a decade.

I confess, I’m not up on the Convention on Biological Diversity, but it sounds like a noble cause. I’m sure it means we can’t kill anything any time anywhere…not even for food…cause it would reduce the diversity of living things on planet Earth. Or something like that.

Now those last two really are noble causes: the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. I think we should get right to it. Just as soon as China stops putting the kids to work, the Islamic states recognize that women are intelligent beings and should be afforded an education, as soon as the Islamists stop all “honor” killings, forced marriages, forced female circumcisions, using women and children as human bombs.

Meanwhile, I think I preferred the Barack Obama who did nothing in the Senate except vote present. (When he voted at all, that is. Both he and Hillary seem to have missed the vote on water boarding as torture today. You’ll have to go to page 2 to find that information, however. For some reason, the Washington Post didn’t think that was important.)

I like the US just fine the way it is, thank you, and see no reason to become part of a world government in the way Senator Obama apparently would like. Our Constitution has served us well for over 20 years now and if we can keep the socialists from creating the state they want (nanny and huge, very huge) it might keep us going for a long, long time.