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RE alienating Europe.

That is like saying that cutting the allowance of a juvenile delinquent son will make his friends upset.

The less money the UN is given the less chance that babies will be murdered or raped.

There is only one thing keeping me from endorsing the elimination of un funding. I fear for the retaliation to New Yorkers and the NY economy before they leave. If we kick them out, they may stop paying the millions of dollars worth of parking tickets. They may start an "eat and bolt" campaign at New York dining establishments. The city/state of NY would lose all of that property tax they are currently collecting from the un complex and all the ancillary office space they rent throughout the city. The city would lose millions in vehicle registrations every year. I could go on and on, this seems like a no win situation for New York. < /sarc>

**Mr Hyde's United Nations reform bill of 2005 proposes that the UN implement various reforms and that failure to do so will result in a 50% budget cut. The bill targets programmes, including the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, which the Israeli government has been campaigning against.**

The Senator has not gone far enough researching the waste and ineptness of Kofi Annan's Manhattan Kingdom...(another UN boondoggle at Turtle Bay)

Sunday May 29, 2:46 AM

Pseudo-humanitarian Hypocrisy personified: Kofi Annan

"Annan urges rapid action on Darfur after 'heart-wrenching' visit"

Excerpt from http://sg.yahoonews.com

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged immediate action to end the Darfur crisis in Sudan after hearing accounts of destruction and abuse during a visit which he described as "heart-wrenching."

On the second day of his tour of Sudan, Annan was confronted with the devastation caused by more than two years of fighting between ethnic minority rebels and government forces.

WHAT UTTER MANURE - Annan urges "immediate action" and describes conditions as "heart-wrenching"!!! THERE IS NOTHING NEW OR RECENT ABOUT the devastation and human suffering in the Sudan - it's been going on for the past TEN YEARS!

Why doesn't Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, et al, prosecute Annan and the UN for their extremely well-funded neglect and violations against humanity?

Kofi Annan has to be the ultimate hypocritical turd in the manure pile of hypocrites.

If Bolton is approved, I expect Annan to resign - the blasted effete-elite self-serving FAKE!

It's Sunday, and I am in angst.

The US Congress is on a collision course with the United Nations by threatening to cut its annual budget by tens of millions of pounds, which would disrupt its work on the ground.

What work?

Certainly someone at FR can fill me in.

Right?

Henry Hyde, the Republican chairman of the house international relations committee, is circulating an 80-page draft bill suggesting cuts to UN programmes congressmen regard as inefficient or worthless.

Snort. That's bloody ALL of them.

But if we're gonna fund any of it, we dang well need to AUDIT the whole dang place first. There have NEVER been ANY outside audits of the UN.

Hyde, start with an audit.

The bill proposes that 18 programmes should no longer be paid from the general budget but attract funding from individual countries or collapse for lack of support.

Perfect. Then those countries who believe the programs are good can pay for them. It sounds like a very effective solution to me and shouldn't bother anyone.