The One Campaign
February 5, 2010The One Campaign. If you were involved in the NH Presidential primary it was impossible to avoid them. They want to help foreign countries through malaria prevention, debt cancelation and the like. Sounds innocent enough, right? Well one must first ask who is associated with them and why Rich Ashooh a Republican candidate for Congress is leading their NH Chapter.
The One Campaign was started by Bono, Bobby Shriver, Susan Buffett and is lead by Harry Reid’s former Chief of Staff. According to the non-profit website Source Watch,” In 2004, DATA, Bread for the World, the Better Safer World coalition and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations created ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History, which calls for 1% more of the US federal budget to be directed towards effective international assistance, as America’s initial fair share of a global effort to achieve the Millennium Goals.“
You read the correctly. The goal of the One Campaign, which Rich Ashooh leads in NH, is to direct 1% MORE of the Federal budget to go to direct foreign assistance each and every year. This is while we have massive budget deficits, record spending and massivley higher taxes on the horizon. If this is the judgment we can expect from Rich Ashooh I say no thank you.
Bob
Feb 5, 2010
OK I’ll bite,
But Samuel which candidate can we count on to oppose socialist groups like ONE?
Samuel Johnson
Feb 5, 2010
I wouldnt say its a socialist group but certainly a very bad choice and not one a conservative would make. I am not sure but I am sure Mayor Guinta had the option to join ONE and choose not to- so him.
I also doubt very much that Ovide would support this.
It seems when someone who hasnt been elected to a public office we have few things to judge them from. The two things we have to judge Ashooh on so far is that he has led pacs that donated to leading NH Democrats and that he is a leader, not just a passive supporter of the ONE Campaign.
BakerandMain
Feb 6, 2010
It is unfortunate that Mr. Johnson really does not understand the complexities of the U.S. National Security Budget, however, it IS fortunate that Mr. Ashooh does understand its importance. Most of the nation’s top brass in Republican Administrations have supported the international affairs budget, because they know that failed states such as Afghanistan usually end up becoming safe havens for terrorist activity. Check out the U.S. Combined Joint Task Force in the Horn of Africa, and then ask yourself why AFRICOM is so interested in doing development work in Africa? I for one would rather have functioning states that are U.S. allies than Somali pirates or Osama Bin Laden setting up shop in the Sudan as he did back in 1994. Not to mention the jobs and allies created from our Foreign Military Finance Programs, which come out of the international affairs budget as well. Spending 1% on foreign aid is peanuts compared to the waste we are currently seeing from Obama. Mr. Ashooh has this right, and glad he has his sites set on the deficit. 1% is nothing compared to the billions Shea-Porter has rubber stamped for these tax, borrow, and spend Democrats.
BakerandMain
Feb 6, 2010
Oh and one last thing…
It is really interesting how many intelligent conservatives have in fact made the choice to support the One Campaign’s bipartisan efforts. Here is a short list:
John E. Sununu
Mitt Romney
John McCain
Rick Santorum
Sam Brownback
One other supporter: Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who Frank Guinta endorsed in 2008.
Samuel Johnson
Feb 6, 2010
Its unfortunate that you have taken their talking points hook and sinker. You make two basic points-
1. The money would helped failed states
2. 1% is nothing compared to Obama
Wow! We should be excited that he wants to spend a lot, but its ok its not worse than Obama. Also, the ONE campaigns primary goals according to its website is climate change, aids, and debt relief. So while you may be right that its in our nations interests to help rescue foreign countries that is not the real goal of ONE.
Samuel Johnson
Feb 6, 2010
None of which currently represent NH and only two are actually currently in office
New Hampshire
Feb 12, 2010
Samuel, thank you for this article.
The ONE campaign is actually a group that is posing as some sort of private ‘charity’ when they are really a political vehicle to garner support for the Global Poverty Act, first introduced by Senator Obama in 2007 which failed, but resurrected in 2009 and secretly put on the agenda. The ONE campaign recently had a forum at the NHIOP, that would be NH Institute of Politics, as proof.
It is a stealth NGO that was set up to support the UN’s Millennium Development Goals which seeks to force passage of the Global Poverty Act, a bill that 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, through a global ‘tax’.
Worse yet, recently uncovered is a scheme where the NH State School Board chair (a republican no less) would like this ONE campaign and programs like it to be part of the required curriculum of the public schools, clearly unconstitutional and a reminder that we have a blatant political agenda being promoted openly in our public schools.
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5152
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-global-tax-proposal-up-for-senate-vote/
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2639/show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PePbtEABzGk (speaker explains it)
New Hampshire
Feb 12, 2010
And if this report is damning, I don’t know what is.
http://www.one.org/blog/category/locations-by-region/united-states-of-america/states/new-hampshire/
New Hampshire
Feb 12, 2010
http://www.one.org/blog/2009/07/29/more-progress-needed-to-achieve-mdgs-by-2015-says-un/
BakerandMain
Feb 13, 2010
New Hampshire and Samuel did you two put on your tin foil hats before writing these posts?
Secret agendas? – Last I checked this is America where bills must be introduced publicly and then they are debated and voted on all which can be reached through the Library of Congress and or Cspan.
Stealth NGOs? – I am pretty sure ONE has a website that anyone can view and I bet they would even take a phone call if you were so inclined.
I couldnt disagree more with the Global Poverty Act and/or a Global Tax of any sorts, and I am sure the Republicans that support the international affairs budget wouldn’t agree with them either. Support for the international affairs budget provides funding for foreign military financing for our allies. Those allies in turn purchase U.S. made military equipment to ensure interoperability when engaging in combat and fighting terrorism around the world, something I think 99% of Republicans would support.
You two are grasping at straws (if in fact you are two people, which I am not so sure) about something that’s value and utility far exceeds its mere 1% of the U.S. budget. Any intelligent person truly concerned about government spending would focus on the 99% rather than the 1%. You are attacking the wrong people, unless of course, you have a hidden agenda.