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Obama's last money shower for the UN: some $9.2 billion
foxnews ^ | George Russell

Posted on 02/03/2017 6:07:53 AM PST by davikkm

EXCLUSIVE: In its last year in office, the Obama Administration showered at least some $9.2 billion on the United Nations and its sprawling array of organizations, according to a document recently posted on the State Department website.

The total is gleaned from a document that summarizes U.S. government spending for international organizations, and is about 20 per cent higher than the $7.7 billion figure given out by State for 2010, before the Obama Administration abruptly quit providing any overall tally for its U.N. support.

The overall U.S. bill for international organizations of every stripe is just under $10.5 billion, meaning that U.N. organizations absorb about 88 per cent of such U.S. government spending.

The new tally includes nearly $360 million for the controversial United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, which is regularly accused of inculcating violent anti-Israel attitudes and even abetting terrorist attacks on Israel, which it strongly denies.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama; un

1 posted on 02/03/2017 6:07:53 AM PST by davikkm
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To: davikkm

Obama...The most expensive mistake America ever made!


2 posted on 02/03/2017 6:08:22 AM PST by davikkm
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To: davikkm

Gee, I think I know where Trump can save about 10 billion a year.


3 posted on 02/03/2017 6:11:00 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (My North America stops at the Rio Grande)
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To: davikkm

Obola got the Nobel prize to increase
the amount of explosives used
for genocide and slavery.

Mission accomplished.


4 posted on 02/03/2017 6:13:13 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: davikkm

100% of the $9.2 billion was appropriate by a Congress controlled by the GOP.


5 posted on 02/03/2017 6:18:00 AM PST by Soul of the South
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To: davikkm
Stop Payment.

Series.

Surely such a sum is not paid all at once... President Trump can save some of it?

6 posted on 02/03/2017 6:18:12 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: davikkm

[before the Obama Administration abruptly quit providing any overall tally for its U.N. support]

Doesn’t CONGRESS approve monetary spending?


7 posted on 02/03/2017 6:19:44 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Congress have dead on their sorry butts for decades when it comes to being responsible.


8 posted on 02/03/2017 6:47:47 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian; All
Yup. Trump's new refrain will be: "The United Nations will pay for this wall."
9 posted on 02/03/2017 6:48:02 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Liz

$7.7 billion figure given out by State for 2010 - was this the $6 billion missing from State Dept?

This year it was 20% higher -
Obama Administration showered at least some $9.2 billion on the United Nations


10 posted on 02/03/2017 6:49:11 AM PST by Whenifhow
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To: Soul of the South

Exactly. You can’t keep carping about Obama without indicting the Republicans in Congress who were almost totally in league with Obama. As we know, Republicans were masters of making public comments to the base all while giving Obama everything he deigned to ask for.


11 posted on 02/03/2017 6:50:08 AM PST by Obadiah (Democrats continue to wage their crusade against normal.)
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To: davikkm

Obama was the true Manchurian Candidate. Although, he wasn’t working for the Manchurians (USSR).


12 posted on 02/03/2017 7:01:25 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Obadiah

“As we know, Republicans were masters of making public comments to the base all while giving Obama everything he deigned to ask for.”

We are seeing the duplicity of the Republican Congress play out on Obamacare repeal. The House Republicans voted something like 40 times to repeal it when Harry Reid ran the Senate, knowing Reid would block it. When the GOP won the Senate in 2014, they put a repeal bill on Obama’s desk knowing he would repeal it. Then when the budget process ran its course, they refused to defund Obamacare.

Today where is the repeal? They could have passed the legislation and put it on Trump’s desk to sign day 1. Instead all we have is noise that it may take 2 years. The truth is they don’t want to repeal.


13 posted on 02/03/2017 7:03:20 AM PST by Soul of the South
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To: WildHighlander57; LucyT
Ping

Most Expensive President Ever !
Funding the Globalists ?

14 posted on 02/03/2017 8:25:36 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu--> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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To: davikkm

scum of the erf tends to congregate,, example.. UN and Dem party.


15 posted on 02/03/2017 9:28:58 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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