Barack Obama is famously light on legislative achievements, and the one big bill with his name on it is bad news.(The Week)(Global Poverty Act)(Brief article)

Barack Obama is famously light on legislative achievements, and the one big bill with his name on it is bad news. As with many on the left, Obama's heart is hostage to the United Nations, and his bill, the Global Poverty Act, would oblige the United States to increase its already generous foreign-aid payments by nearly $1 trillion over a dozen years--on top of what we already give. (As recently as 1987, the entire federal budget was less than $1 trillion.) The payments are in line with the goals articulated in the U.N.'s "Millennium Declaration." Jeffrey Sachs, the head ...