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Default Obama's Robin Hood agenda for the world

I'm a ground-breaking Robin Hood researcher, and I've come to the
conclusion that Robin Hood's original audacity was not robbing the
rich and giving to the poor. If you want to see whether I think
Obama is the modern Robin Hood, look at my blog:



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Barack Obama is determined to engage in the sort of redistribution of
wealth that has long been the hallmark of the radical Left. As the
senator from Illinois famously told an Everyman questioner named Sam
Wurzelbacher - who will forever be known as "Joe the Plumber": "I
think that when you spread the wealth around, it's good for
everybody."

The days following the third Obama-McCain debate have been filled with
invective, much of it aimed at obscuring the extent to which Mr. Obama
actually embraces a redistributionist agenda. Democratic partisans
have emphasized their man's proposal to give tax cuts for 95 percent,
insisting that only the rich earning more than $250,000 would be
soaked. Republicans have retorted that 40 percent of Americans pay no
taxes, so they would actually be getting tax credits - significantly
increasing the wealth dispersed at the government's discretion. Along
the way, Joe the Plumber became political road-kill, his professional,
political and tax status the object of withering scrutiny and
criticism.

As it happens, Mr. Obama has exhibited a commitment to "spreading the
wealth around" that extends far beyond his ominously socialistic Robin
Hood agenda for this country. Late last year, he introduced the Global
Poverty Act (S.2433).

The stated purposes of this legislation purport to be as modest as
they are seemingly laudable. Who can object to the goal of
dramatically reducing hunger and privation that afflicts hundreds of
millions around the world? And who could find fault with congressional
direction that the president come up with a strategy to advance this
goal?

Unfortunately, the apparently innocuous language of S.2433 belies a
larger and troubling purpose, one that augurs ill for those of us who
still think of ourselves as American citizens - rather than as, in Mr.
Obama's words, "citizens of the world." It would explicitly make it
the policy of the United States "to promote the reduction of global
poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the
achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half
the proportion of people, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than
$1 per day."

The operative phrase in this problematic policy directive is "the
achievement of the Millennium Development Goal." In fact, the bill
would require that the mandated presidential strategy coordinate "the
goal of poverty reduction with the other internationally recognized
Millennium Development Goals." (Emphasis added.)

The Obama bill makes clear, in turn, that the latter are the
objectives laid out by the United Nations General Assembly in its 2000
"Millennium Declaration" resolution. As the legislation goes on to
note, these goals include (but are not limited to): "eradicating
extreme hunger, promoting gender equality, empowering women,"
combating communicable diseases, "ensuring environmental
sustainability," affording access to clean water and sanitation and
"achieving significant improvement in the lives of at least 100
million slum dwellers."

Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid reminds us that, to advance these
ambitious goals, the Millennium Declaration would require the United
States to apply "0.7 percent of gross national product (GNP) as
official development assistance."

In other words, for each year between 2002 and 2015, the United States
would have to cough up roughly $65 billion over-and-above its current
foreign aid distributions. This amounts to a staggering commitment of
at least $845 billion - all to be given to the notoriously incompetent
and corrupt United Nations to manage.

Voters need to establish whether, as it appears, Mr. Obama has, in
fact, no problem with either the magnitude of this redistribution of
wealth or with the idea of having international bureaucrats dole it
out. We also must know whether he agrees with the United Nations
functionary who is the driving force behind its Millennium Project,
Harvard Professor Jeffrey Sachs, who insists that a new "global tax"
on carbon emissions is required to underwrite his agenda for spreading
the wealth around.

Just as wealth creation domestically has proven to be more conducive
to national prosperity than wealth redistribution, it would be far
better to find ways to grow the global "pie," rather than have
national or international officials apportion it to their liking. One
of the most promising ways to do the latter is to adopt another piece
of bipartisan legislation: the Open Fuels Standards Act.

This legislation (H.R. 6559 in the House and S.3303 in the Senate) -
which neither Sens. Obama nor McCain have as yet co-sponsored - would
require most new cars in the United States to be capable of running on
ethanol or methanol, as well as gasoline. Inevitably, this Open Fuel
Standard would become the international one. The result would be to
enable some 100 countries around the globe to begin growing their own
fuel, rather than continuing to impoverish their peoples by having to
buy oil at exorbitant prices from the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries.

Rewarding America's Joe the Plumbers for their enterprise, rather than
penalizing them, is the right answer for this country and its economy.
Similarly, we are far more likely to see the wealth earned pursuant to
the Open Fuel Standard truly alleviate world poverty than by having
politicians or officials impose global taxes - and spread around the
resulting revenues, at huge expense to U.S. taxpayers and their
sovereignty and interests.

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