Obama is expected to sign the UN Arms Trade Treaty on July 27, 2012. Secretary Hilary Clinton has been working in brining this about for quite some time. The global weapons market at the present time exceeds $60 billion dollars per year. The intent of the Arms Trade Treaty is to curb the irresponsible trade and transfer of arms and weapons, and the idea is that a UN Arms Trade Treaty would facilitate that.
The UN signing an Arms Trade Treaty is similar to locking the barn door after all of the horses have escaped, and by signing the Arms Trade Treaty the global weapons market will go from a $60 billion dollar industry to a trillion dollar industry, since the demand for weapons by rouge countries is similar to the demand that America has for drugs. Neither one can be controlled or curbed.
The price of a desired item, be it weapons or drugs, is driven by two key factors: availability and desire. As the availability is reduced due to regulations and the desire increases, so the price of those items naturally increases as well. The greater the risk involved in providing the desired item, the price directly relates to the increased price of those items.
A UN Arms Trade Treaty will do nothing to slow down the distribution and availability of weapons since, once again, there are far to many weapons scattered throughout the world, and countries and individuals that want to obtain additional weapons will still be able to do so, but at a significantly higher price. At the same time, there are many countries that are not at all concerned with a UN treaty (or for that matter any other treaty), and they will continue to sell weapons to any country or individual that is both willing and capable of paying for them.
The United States is broke, yet the UN spends about $15 billion dollars per year, and our Government covers about 22% of that. In 2008, the United Sates spent $25 billion on foreign aid, I am certain that the current figures are dramatically higher than that. The United States also gives Pakistan over one billion dollars per year. Egypt receives about the same, and here we are borrowing over 15 trillion dollars, most of it from Japan.
I think that since the members of Congress appear not to be doing much of anything lately, they might want to sit down and discuss the importance and significance of continuing to support the UN and America’s desire to give away what we no longer have, which is money
The reality is that signing a UN Arms Trade Treaty accomplishes nothing positive for anyone, and continuing to support the UN appears to be something that should have been terminated a very long time ago.
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THIS UN TREATY IS THE WORST THING THAT WAS EVER REMOTELY CONSIDERED BY ANY ONE IN US GOVERNMENT. ANY ONE SIGNING IT SHOULD BE CHARGED AND CONVICTED OF TREASON. FURTHERMORE THE USA NEEDS TO GET THE HELL OUT OF THE UN. THE USA ALSO NEEDS TO GET ALL TROOPS THE HELL OUT OF ALL FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND LET THEM KILL EACH OTHER OFF. SECURE OUR BORDERS PROTECT OUR COUNTRY FREEDOMS AND PEOPLE.
They can forget it, we are not giving up our weapons, and that is it.
Look at the Head of the UN, that Bang-kock guy some North Korean clown. When he started the job he was a drunk as hell, singing, and jumping around like lice.
This is The New World Order, folks. The elitists are scared We The People of Free Countries will revolt against their plan of total domination and tyranny. They THINK this treaty will remove all guns, thus, rendering us dependent upon them for safety and survival; a welfare state. Guns are not the only weapons in the world. Even as despicable as Bill Clinton is, I can’t imagine bedding down each night with hard-ass Hillary. It would turn my stomach. Just as Ron Paul has said for years, the U.S. needs to get out of the U.N. and start taking care of it’s own. On our home front, we have terrorist attacks on our health from Monsanto, on our economy from the likes of Dodd and Frank, on our safety from illegal immigrants and on our Constitution from the current president and his administration.
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The US government is at war with the American people. There is no othr country to run to. I hope everyone has prepared with the materials that can be used for self defense.They are flying off the shelf along with lead and brass to feed them.
What I don’t like about the UN is that they bring together two man and woman who live in a mud hut with a goat tether up outside, or some other idiots who lived ‘in isolation’ in the middle of the snow, with two or three rein-dear, they make each other, chief, princess and ambassador and then they sent them to the UN. Then they have the cheek to have these clowns make some big decisions on me and you.
We need to with draw from the U N and kick them out! Why give money to those who hate us and cut our throats ever chance they get! Let them go with Obama when he leaves, they work great with Dictators!
Getting the pretend-a-president out of our country will only allow him to regroup and try again…here or somewhere else. He needs to be tried and hung for high treason or jailed in Joe’s pink AZ prison for the rest of his miserable life. Send his wife to an Islamic country where they beat their women at will.