[JohnCliftn]

He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley

Which means he was paid around $5,000 per Month from US TAX MONEY for the current compensation for Norwegians (Norwegian Fulbright Program)

• Stipend: n.a.
• Maintenance: Approximately 23,000 to 30,000 Norwegian kroner per month, based on the number of accompanying dependents. (The 01/04 exchange rate was US$1=NOK 6.6). Travel/Relocation: International travel for grantee only. Small allowance for excess baggage.
• Tuition Assistance: n.a.
• Other Benefits: n.a.

I want our money back.

[Darkwolf377]

Didn't he suggest that taxes should be raised to pay for this kind of thing?

DUmmies must be wondering if they could get him to run for national office.

[ijcr]

From the UN website:-

http://www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/salaries_allowances/sitemap.htm

We can find Mr. Egerland's base salary is a pitiful US$174,137 p.a.. In addition Mr Egerland receives a New York duty allowance equivalent to 60.7% of his base. A piffling $105,159.

Now he also receives a rent allowance equal to 25% of his adjusted salary which works out to be $69,824.

This totals out at US $349,120 p.a..

[Libertina]

GREAT! Then he won't mind donating HIS year's salary to this humanitarian effort. Right?

[farfromhome]

Taxes are a wonderful thing... so long as you can get someone else to pay them.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post/information.

[aquila48]

Any way to find out how much he's donated to charities, or disaster reliefs - this one or previous disasters?

I figure he must give a good chunk since he thinks what we donate is "stingy".

I bet anything he's a phony and a fraud, but very generous with other people's money.

I hope we get to shine some light on this ingrate.

[26lemoncharlie]

Wel Jannie has been to every Bastion of Socialist Bovine Scarptology taht is on the face of the Earth. So we should pay him an exorbitant taxfree salary so he can Criticise us and tell the world that We WANT to pay MORE TAXES, so pinhead National Socialists like him can spend it!!

What we REALLY WANT and what we are REALLY going to get is OUT of the UN and the UN OUT of the US. And Little Jannie can go back to Norway and repair his fishing nets and start getting up for work!

[spartan68]

GET THE U.S. OUT OF THE U.N.
AND
GET THE U.N. OUT OF THE U.S.
N O W !!

[Coleus]

USAID    UNESCO    UNFPA    UNICEF     UNEP    ICLEI    UN

 FTAA  LOST  GetUSOut  getusout.org  stoptheftaa

Oil-For-Food       Duelfer Report   Blood For Oil   Kojo 

Michael New        UNISDR

[libertyman]

I don't care if he doesn't pay any income tax, I think that's great...now only if we could repeal the 16th Amendment & make that the case for everyone else.

I remember during the California governor's race that conservatives were whining & trashing Arainna Huffington 'cuz she paid only a pittance in federal income taxes. SO WHAT? There have been questions about whether or not the 16th Amendment has been properly ratified in the first place, & the FedGov refuses to discuss the issue....I smell a dead rat here, & it really stinks.

[KwasiOwusu]

"Mr. Egeland has been Chair of Amnesty International, Norway, and Vice Chair of the International Executive Committee of Amnesty International. "

That's all I wanted to know
Amnesty International is one of the biggest hate-America, pro-terrorist groups on the planet, only sligghtly less rabid than Al Quaeda.
When you look at this bonehead from Norway's membership of Amnesty International, then everything begins to make sense all of a sudden.

[Prince Charles]

Bump

[airedale]

Does he pay taxes in Sweden where income tax is as follows {I have no doubt that the UN does NOT pay the employer tax or the pension fee or any of the other taxes. I'll also bet that he intends to collect the Swedish pension}:

"Sweden has a taxation system that combines a direct tax (paid by the employee) with an indirect tax (paid by the employer). In practice, the employer provides the state with both means of taxation but the employee only sees the direct tax on his declaration form. Below is a compilation of the taxes that compose the final income tax (2003):

Tax on "gross" income "from the employer": 32,82% (indirect, fixed)
Pension "fee" on "gross" income: 6.95% (indirect, fixed)
"State tax" on, "gross" income less pension tax and a "base deduction": ~32% (direct, varies by state)
"Federal tax" on, "gross" income less pension tax and a "base deduction": 0%, 20% or 25% (direct, progressive)
[edit]
Example
Income: 180,000 kronor ($25,000)

Tax: 121,634 (68% of income)
"Employer tax": 59,076
Pension "fee": 12,510
State tax: 50,048
Income: 450,000 kronor ($64,285) (eligible for "federal" income tax of 25%)

Tax: 412,665 (92% of income)
"Employer tax": 147,690
Pension "fee": 31,275
State tax: 131,200
Federal tax: 102,500 "

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax

[radiohead]

You may have picked up a link for a lecturer/researcher; someone who has already received a degree. A Fulbright Scholar is usually in pursuit of a degree and doesn't get anywhere near that amount of money. Also, both governments support the program. It's not just the US. I think the info you want is here: http://www.fulbright.no/?module=Articles;action=Article.publicShow;ID=32

My friend is a Fulbright Scholar from Norway. She would be shocked to find out she is getting $5000 a month.

My understanding is she got about $10-12,000 her first year and that was it. After that, she only has her stipend to live on, which is the same $1400 or so that we all made as doctoral students before passing our comprehensive exams.

She has the title of Fulbright Scholar, which is trotted out at school functions and a crappy insurance coverage from them, worse than the university student insurance. Unless she gets something new on a Christmas trip home to Norway, she's been wearing the same clothes since we got here in 2001.

I have some additional scholarship income and often give my friend food, school supplies and other odds and ends, as $1400 doesn't go far in Seattle, rents being what they are.

I'm not supporting Egeland. I just didn't want people to have the wrong idea about the program. The money allowed her to get out of Norway with a little money to get an apartment, etc. over here. It was hardly a windfall for a 5 year program.

[leadpenny]

Can someone please ping . . .

The Washington Times
The New York Post
The Boston Herald
FOX News
Rush
etc.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Oh, if they think the heat they got from the "Oil for Food" scandal was bad, when this is hits, it's going to go from bake to full Boil.

What this article means in a nutshell that since the U.S. taxpayers pay for 20% to 25% of the UN's dues that we U.S. taxpayers are paying these elitists' TAXES.

And these elitists still have the gall to bad mouth us.

[RJL]

Stingy Bump

[Gay State Conservative]

A resume that would surely make Mao Tse Tung proud!

[Milligan]

The pot that calls the kettle black?

[jimbo123]

E-mail addresses for Egeland:

Egeland@un.org

lawday@un.org

bunker@un.org