You hear that from whores everywhere ...
Posted on 03/21/2008 12:42:19 PM PDT by TopQuark
Expenses At U.N. Balloon 25 Percent U.S. Demands on Body Help Drive Up Budget
UNITED NATIONS -- Despite long-standing efforts by successive U.S. administrations to rein in U.N. spending, the United Nations this month presented its top donors with a request for nearly $1.1 billion in additional funds over the next two years -- boosting current U.N. expenses by 25 percent and marking the global body's highest-ever administrative budget, according to internal U.N. memos.
Much of the increased spending flows from Bush administration demands for a more ambitious U.N. role around the world. During President Bush's tenure, the United States has signed off on billions of dollars for U.N. peacekeeping operations in Sudan and elsewhere, and authorized hundreds of millions for U.N. efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, where U.N. officials helped organize elections and draft a new constitution. .....
"This is a breakdown of a 20-year-long effort to rein in U.N. spending," said John R. Bolton, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations early in Bush's second term. "What happened in the late part of the Clinton administration, but most spectacularly in the Bush administration, is that the principle of zero nominal growth broke down completely."
That principle required the United Nations to maintain its administrative budget at the same level each year, meeting the costs of inflation through spending cuts.
The additional funds in the latest request would be used to renovate the landmark U.N. headquarters in New York, fund war-crimes investigators in Lebanon and pay $100 million to build a reinforced, attack-resistant U.N. headquarters building in Baghdad. But they would also be used to pay nearly $7 million for a 2009 anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa, which Washington believes would serve as a forum to bash Israel.
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A joke, right?
You've got to be kidding.
Seems to me like Kofi's oil for food program should cover that...
And yet we just keep on keepin’ on with these asshats.
Go get the money from Tofu Anon. He stole at least that much when he was Secretary General!
If we’re costing the UN so much money, maybe we should just quit so they can save 25 percent. We’ll turn their headquarters into a casino or something.
A bordello for former NYC officials might be useful.
(snark)
Why give one dime to the Useless Nations?
Can someone help explain what this means in English
screw them!!!!
US out of the UN......UN out of the US!!!!!
let some turd world muzzie lovin cesspool nation fund it!!!!
Might I suggest a museum of organizational corruption?
Clinton, er, THE Clintons would have their own wing, along side the UN, the city of Chicago, Cook County, NYC, ....
The UN has a balloon, and said balloon’s expenses are 25% above budget?
I thought it already was... They certainly have enough suckers, shady dealers, pit bosses and rigged games operating there.
UN Go Home!
UN out of US!
No, that’s a waste of a perfectly good building. Just think of the revenue we could get out of it when it’s turned into a regular office building.
You hear that from whores everywhere ...
The UN got away with the oil for blood scam. Kofi and his son should have gone to prison. They are or were their own entity and investigated themselves.
Claudia Rossett should have won a pulitzer for all the work she did in exposing the UN and the blood on their hands.
Bush stood up a little to them on the Kyoto Treaty and on Iraq and Saddam, on reparations for slavery and on one meeting when they wanted to label the jews as zionist.
But they got away with stealing and murder and they should be labeled a terrorist organization.
“The additional funds in the latest request would be used to renovate the landmark U.N. headquarters in New York,...”
I think that’s the money quote of the article right there. This is the U.N. guiding the Camel’s nose to the edge of the tent as thus far they haven’t succeeded in gaining a specific commitment from the U.S they seek. All the rest of the listed “reasons” may or may not be legitimate, but these asshats have been trying for years to get the U.S. to anti up big bucks to build them a glorious palace. They really aren’t satisfied with renovations to the existing facilities as much as they want us to build them a new one.
To “H” with them all. Get the U.S. out of the U.N., and the U.N. out of the U.S. That’ll save us one “H” of a lot more than the 25%.
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