Posted on 12/31/2004 12:17:15 AM PST by kattracks
The Stinge-O-Meter, which the United Nations uses to measure the generosity of its members, is busted. The needle is spinning wildly, out of control.
Jan Egeland, the chief bureaucrat in charge of the U.N. emergency relief, such as it is, gave the Stinge-O-Meter a mighty spin in the wake of the Asian tsunami and read the miserable verdict: The United States and the nations of the West are "stingy."
Mr. Egeland, a Norwegian who throws up at the idea that anyone should spend his own money without bureaucratic guidance, says the trouble is rooted in the fact that Americans are not taxed enough.[snip]
Collecting more swag and turning more of it over to the United Nations would enable Kofi Annan to invite a few hundred more bureaucrats, maybe even thousands, to join the easy ride through Manhattan.
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The New York Times and The Washington Post, always on the scout for mean things to say about Americans other than their own grand selves, agreed with Mr. Egeland's first reading of the Stinge-O-Meter.
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The president was working at the ranch, lollygagging about with Laura and the girls, when Bill Clinton, working his Pain-O-Meter on fading battery power, was busy in London feeling tsunami pain at a 10,000-mile remove.
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Showing he cared to the satisfaction of nearly everyone else, the president announced that the United States had organized an international aid consortium to act quickly and decisively to assuage as much pain as it could. This was too much for the bureaucrats and their special pleaders. Clare Short, the ex-secretary of international development for the U.N., said the president's initiative "sounds like yet another attempt to undermine the U.N." (What the starving Asians need is not groceries and medicines, but resolutions of the Security Council, which only the U.N. can supply.)
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
let's get the 'f' out of th UN NOW. And send the money collected from these free-loading UN AmbASSador's PARKING TICKETS in NYC to aid in Tsunami relief.
jerks...
..and good...I am dam glad to see we ARE UNDERMINING the UN..at every turn. send these clowns packing, and let them get there sex from little boys elsewhere....
and while we're getting the 'f' out of the UN, we can get the UN the 'f' out of US (or our land, that is!). NO MORE FREE RIDES, especially for the bunch of ingrates.
"Americans are not taxed enough.." -this statement alone from this UN goofball should headline every newspaper in the land...
good point...I filled out the petition to do just that, get the UN the 'f' out of here by giving them the boot...
If someone can repost the link, I'd appreciate it (otherwise I'll dig it up)..
SIGN the "Give the UN the BOOT" ONLINE PETITION!
Here it is:
SIGN the "Give the UN the BOOT" ONLINE PETITION:
http://moveamericaforward.com/?Page=Petition
Signed it again. Anyone know how many people did?
(1) - Serve 48 hour eviction notices on all U.N. personnel that they are persona non grata (unless they are U.S. citizens and successfully pass an updated background check).
(2) - Evict above U.N. personnel, except for Kofi Annan, who does the perp walk over to Rikers Island.
(3) - Send U.S. Marshalls to secure former U.N. headquarters.
(4) - Fumigate building top to bottom, followed by 10,000 gallons of Clorox bleach poured from the roof down through the building.
(5) - Remove all remaining traces of former occupants.
(6) - Renovate and repaint building in bold red, white and blue motif.
(7) - Dedicate the NEW Interim United States World Trade Center.
(8) - Allocate previously seized U.N. funds residing in any U.S. banking institution to Iraqi reconstruction costs, Iranian freedom fighters seeking to overthrow mullahs, and Tsunami relief in Southeast Asia.
(9) - Laugh at Kofi Annan as he pleads his innocence at trial, swearing that he wants to "find the real thieves" at the U.N.
(10) - HAPPY New Year! :)
And this, of course, is THE reason why Egeland went off his gourd earlier in the week.
Bush's money is going DIRECTLY to the countries, leaving the UN to beg the world for an additional 135 million to set up 'headquarters' in that area, so they can administer the disaster relief.
I suspect that by the time Kofi has his meeting next week, we will have been rocking and rolling over there for DAYS.
God bless our troops wherever they may be.
Maybe Bill Clinton could donate some his worn-out underware again, and, this time, he could even have it washed before he gives it to charity.
Mr. Egeland's UN salary plus allowances amounts to $350,000 a year, and he does NOT HAVE TO PAY INCOME TAXES. How much has HE contributed?
He must be a graduate of the Leona Helmsley Tax School.
I learned from a thread the other day that the UN voted to exempt themselves from income taxes. Nice, huh? They don't pay their parking tickets either. And they have "moral authority" for anything? Actions speak louder than anything they SAY.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1312134/posts?page=1
URL above is just a link with a bit of "truth antidote" to all the "sting" comments...
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