1/2 billion here, 1/2 billion there, pretty soon, you talkin’ real money!
GREAT START!!
Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
Remember when Biden said something like, “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon we’ll be talking about real money”? Politicians have no concept of what a “million” or a “billion” dollars is since, it’s not THEIR money. (But somehow in the end, they DO wind up with a goodly portion of that same money).
As I understand it, the UN budget, not our contribution, was decreased by $285m. Of course, our contribution will be reduced as a result, but it won’t be the whole $285m. That said, it’s a good start.
EXCELLENT!
Best election ever.
Add Pakistan and we’re going in the right direction.
The real problem is the “trillion dollars is OK now” mentality in Congress every year that a budget is drawn up.
That was supposed to be a one-time thing in 2009 to get the economy going again, and now Congress can’t ever seem to lower the budget to pre-2009 levels.
And at a trillion dollars every year, there’s still a LOT of cutbacks that need to be made in the budget, and Congress has got to change its “deficits are no big deal” attitude.
Use the money to help build the wall .
Actually the $285 for the UN was an announced reduction in their two year budget and not a reduction in the U.S. contribution to the organization. And the $255 million reduction was for Pakistan and not the Palestinians.
This is the first vanity in a while that was REALLY worth posting :)
Well, right after the guy who asked for forgiveness for lusting after Michele Malkin lol
I found that one funny but this is more in line with FR
SAVING MONEY!!! OUR MONEY!!
Since there are THOUSANDS of items to cut in our government, half a billion here and there can turn into 10s an then 100s of billions rather quickly.
There aren’t many moments of pure comedy in geopolitics but the Pakistan Panic was delicious. They were scared witless.
The President’s tweet said we’ve given the Paki’s 33 billion over 15 years. That works out to over 2.2 billion a year. 285 million ain’t nearly enough.
DEFUND socialist/totalitarian collectives, foreign and domestic.
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