Just Another Reason For REASONABLE People To NOT Vote For Obama!

Of course the article is biased and all that. Clearly it was written with the sole intent to make Obama look bad. The fact is, the bill is just proposing more of what the US already does with throwing money at these countries. I know Africa suffered from colonization, but again, I don't think it's the responsibility of the US to give them money when we are in the midst of a recession. there comes a time where the government must prioritize our country so we can get back on our feet.

As someone who has spent quite a bit of time in "third world countries" (TWC), I feel I need to speak up here. First of all, most TWCs are not TWCs because they "can't stop killing each other long enough to industrialize," as you say. Many of the countries that are not industrialized (in Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia, for example) are so largely because of recent colonization that has raped them of their resources and dignity as human beings. No matter how hard we try to believe that the era of colonization is over, its effects from the last century have stunted these countries so much so that it has been even more difficult to bring these regions out of poverty. That said, I am in full support of anything that seeks to help them out of their hardships. I am currently living under the poverty line myself (in the USA) because employment has been difficult to find where I live. Even so, I live in extreme luxury compared to the people I have lived and worked with in TWCs. As far as the Global Poverty Act, I have not had the time to research it, but I'm guessing that this article is presenting a biased, incomplete look at what the bill is proposing to do. The excessive use of highlighting and italics usually tips me off to an unprofessional article.

The real question is, Would this bill when committed to law will benefit America in the long run. Let's be honest I mean no country specially not America would give free handouts to foreign countries no matter how poor they are without having something in return right? business is business, Negosiyos con negosiyos.

First let's get something straight; I have never, and if they don't change their politics and philosophy, will never ever vote for a democrat! Democrats believe in killing babies, taxing and spending and big huge government; things I am totally against! I don't believe it is the duty of my government to redistribute wealth and take from the "haves because I/we earned it" and give it to the "don't haves because they don't want to work for it"! I take issue with the reasoning that it is right for a woman to have a choice to kill her unborn child when she had the choice to abstain or protect herself in the first place! Yeah, I voted for Bush, both times! Was he perfect? Not by a far cry but neither was Clinton, Bush 1, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, or Eisenhower!(Man am I old, didn't realize I had been through that many!) The president is blamed for many many things way beyond his power or control but it comes with the territory! Did he lie to the American people? I don't belive he did knowingly, he just acted on the informnation he had at the time which, by the way was the same info the democrats had when they voted to give him the power to invade Iraq. After that it really didn't matter, what was done was done! Do I want a democrat in office this time? I'll let you answer that one!

Just as always, Jormins, an Obamite will believe the article to be grossly misrepresented. Fact is when the numbers are crunched we, the American people, are once again scr*wed and tatooed and strapped with yet another "gift" to foreign countries. This is what we have private institutions like "feed the children" and "care" and hundreds upon hundreds of others that collect millions upon millions from people much more able to pay for this than your average joe trying to make ends meet! We as a nation already give more monetary help than any other nation in the world so why should we be strapped with an even bigger burden? Ridiculous! The articles you placed in your response only touch upon the entire bill and it is only what congress WANTS to be read by the American public. It may be bipartison but it is absolutely unacceptable!

I don't know how I feel about this plan. If it is at all true. But we are spending big right now to pay for the Bush family's war for oil. Maybe our tax dollars could be spent on something more fruitful? Does this plan include our own? I'm mean is it just aimed at foreign aid?

No Shamsta, it is not slander it is the truth that can be proven by checking the proposed bill in front of congress right now. These are things people like Obama can't hide from and in the end will get him defeated!

As do I. Does Obama have any bills proposed for that purpose? Have you looked into that?

So another words, these people, according to you, are out and out liars? Why would you put the number of the bill in an article that can be checked against the bills in congress if you were going to lie? No lies here, just another socialist wanting to give my hard earned money away to people in other parts of the world!

No I don't suggest that they are lying. I suggest they are twisting the truth to suit their political agenda. I suggest that this normal behavior and that each of us as has a responsibility to read the reality rather than the the pablum that is spewed by others.