'SHARE THE WEALTH' WITH THE WORLD?

Barack Obama doesn't simply want to "spread the wealth around" here in America: He's on record as favoring redistribution on a global scale.

As the Democrat explained last year in Foreign Affairs, he thinks we need to be "sharing more of our riches to help those in need" around the world and promised to double American foreign assistance, and proposed an additional multibillion-dollar Global Education Fund to eliminate what he calls the "global education deficit." [snip]

Obama has already acted on these beliefs. In the Senate, he co-sponsored the Global Poverty Act, which calls on the US to allocate $845 billion more than we're now set to spend over the next 13 years... [snip]

In a statement on the Global Poverty Act, Obama explained we need to transfer massive amounts of money to the developing world and get "beyond trade agreements that are more about increasing profits than about helping workers and small farmers everywhere."

Profits, in Obama's view, don't help people - they hurt them. Whereas redistribution can fix all kinds of problems. Perhaps this is why so many in the world hope Obama wins -

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