The link to the details on the Obama/Hagel bill - which now that I went back and looked - does cost over $800 billion and takes .7% of our GNP, not the .07% I originally posted - is as follows:
Since the original UN resolution calling on the G8 nations to pony up was followed by the Bali global warming conference also calling on wealthy nations to support a global tax to empower poorer ‘powerless’ states, I concluded that Barack Obama, a committed internationalist, was responding to the call.
pparets - 03:02pm on 02/17/2008
Sorry, pparets.
The link only takes me to Glen Becks homepage.
I searched through it and came up empty.
Would you check the link?
Thanks
laydownSally - 04:02pm on 02/17/2008
Well Folks,
Now I’m critizing.
I’m sure if I wanted to, especially since I’m no fan of Obama, I could dig up plenty of reasons why and how he would make things worse for us.
But from the first mathematical error to the last (i.e. 0.7% of GNP is still not $800M), the information from above is full of errors, and should be retracted.
There is a Global Poverty Act before congress (H.R. 1302 and S. 2433) but as I stated earlier it is…
nothing more than a verbosely written tirade commiting us to aid to Africa.
Whether you agree with these bills or not, they are recieving full bi-partisan support and are in fact an
expansion on what Bush already has in place. Nothing more.
I don’t know if it’s a misunderstanding or a misreading of what Glen Beck wrote but no where can I find a number which is the product of a percentage of GNP.
laydownSally - 05:02pm on 02/17/2008
LaydownSally: There but for a single ‘n’ go I. Sorry. =) Here’s the correct link for the Obama GLOBAL POVERTY ACT info.
LaydownSally: For you, Madam? Anything!
The link to the details on the Obama/Hagel bill - which now that I went back and looked - does cost over $800 billion and takes .7% of our GNP, not the .07% I originally posted - is as follows:
http://www.glenbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/5991/
Since the original UN resolution calling on the G8 nations to pony up was followed by the Bali global warming conference also calling on wealthy nations to support a global tax to empower poorer ‘powerless’ states, I concluded that Barack Obama, a committed internationalist, was responding to the call.
Sorry, pparets.
The link only takes me to Glen Becks homepage.
I searched through it and came up empty.
Would you check the link?
Thanks
Well Folks,
Now I’m critizing.
I’m sure if I wanted to, especially since I’m no fan of Obama, I could dig up plenty of reasons why and how he would make things worse for us.
But from the first mathematical error to the last (i.e. 0.7% of GNP is still not $800M), the information from above is full of errors, and should be retracted.
There is a Global Poverty Act before congress (H.R. 1302 and S. 2433) but as I stated earlier it is…
Whether you agree with these bills or not, they are recieving full bi-partisan support and are in fact an
expansion on what Bush already has in place. Nothing more.
I don’t know if it’s a misunderstanding or a misreading of what Glen Beck wrote but no where can I find a number which is the product of a percentage of GNP.
LaydownSally: There but for a single ‘n’ go I. Sorry. =) Here’s the correct link for the Obama GLOBAL POVERTY ACT info.
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/5991/
pparets,
Thanks. It worked.
I hope you read my above comment, because it still applies.
I like Glenn Beck, but he’s got it all wrong in this instance.
LaydownSally: Interestingly, the exact same .7% and a cost of $800 billion or more for the Global Poverty Act was reported on NPR… of all places!
I have no link to it.
pparets,
Use you calculator...it doen’t compute and..
It’s not in the bill!!
Do your research.
laydownsally: Do my research? I’m inclined to trust the work done by Beck’s staff and the people at NPR.
Why are you so fixated on this? If you disagree with the findings, feel free to contact Glenn Beck and express your displeasure.
Is it accurate to assume that you support the purpose and intent of the Obama/Hagel Global Poverty Act?
Sorry pparets,
I’ll drop it...just thought you might be interested in the truth, when you blog about something.
Guess not.
LaydownSally: I would like to think that you are being a little testy here. I would never knowingly print anything that I knew was not the truth.