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Bolton: UN Budget Cuts 'Real Opportunity' for Trump Admin
Newsmax ^ | 12/26/17 | Sandy Fitzgerald

Posted on 12/26/2017 2:49:56 PM PST by x1stcav

Former U.S. Ambassador John Bolton Tuesday applauded cuts to the United Nations budget, saying they are a "real opportunity" for President Donald Trump's administration to rethink the United States' share of what it contributes to the world agency and possibly even pulling out of the U.N. Human Rights Council.

"There are plenty of parts of the U.N. system that don't deserve any U.S. funding, let alone a cut," Bolton told Fox News' "America's Newsroom" program. "I think if the administration really wants to review what the options are available to us, they should think about having the U.S. in the international taxation [plan] that burdens us with a 22 percent share of most U.N. budgets, and move toward voluntary contributions."

If other countries follow, he added, "it would be like a tsunami through the U.N. system," Bolton said.

Meanwhile, Bolton said he also believes the United States should withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council, and "totally defund it."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: israel; jerusalem; johnbolton; letshavejerusalem; nikkihaley; waronterror

1 posted on 12/26/2017 2:49:56 PM PST by x1stcav
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To: x1stcav
We need John Bolton as SOS.

Rainbow Rex Tillerson needs to join a global warming think tank and get on with his life.

Can you imagine John Bolton wasting even one second of his time holding a ceremony honoring "violence against transgender day" ?
 

2 posted on 12/26/2017 2:59:59 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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To: x1stcav

Bolton has good ideas.

Surprised President Trump did not find a place for him in his Administration.


3 posted on 12/26/2017 3:00:07 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: x1stcav

it is indeed a rare opportunity for USA to cut a whole lot further our subsidies of the UnitedNazis

cut cut cut the basturds!!!!!!

keep our Security Council seat and cut out all of our funding, we’ve carried more than our share for far far far too long, especially since the UN has degenerated into the UnitedNazis. CUT IT NOW!


4 posted on 12/26/2017 3:04:20 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: x1stcav

Only in the DC Swamp is a person considered toxic for being competent, telling the truth, and following through on his promises — Trump, Bossie, Bolton. #Bolton4SoS


5 posted on 12/26/2017 3:06:09 PM PST by nickedknack
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To: marktwain

He’s a worn old shoe. Yes he has good ideas — mainly UN ideas, but the UN is not the daily story


6 posted on 12/26/2017 3:07:29 PM PST by Fhios (1987: Where's Waldo -- 2017: Where's Jeff Sessions.)
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7 posted on 12/26/2017 3:16:44 PM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: marktwain

Bolton does have good ideas. Just remember that they were Trump ideas first.


8 posted on 12/26/2017 3:21:58 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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The U.N. Human Rights Council is ALL about spreading homosexual degeneracy through the entire world.

Whenever you hear them discussing “human rights”, they’re really talking about the right of homosexuals to sodomize your children.


9 posted on 12/26/2017 3:47:00 PM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
There are plenty of parts of the U.N. system that don't deserve any U.S. funding, let alone a cut

Sounds like Newt. He is correct. But money is fungible, and it's difficult to direct a foreign agency, even one headquartered in NYC, how to fung their money.

Bolton, Gingrich. Not to suggest the President isn't serious about cleaning up, even draining the swamp. But these are two that should have a role.

10 posted on 01/03/2018 4:34:15 PM PST by SJackson (The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement)
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