Posted on 05/28/2008 7:02:19 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
The multibillion-dollar procurement business of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the U.N.’s flagship anti-poverty agency, is a gigantic shambles, according to UNDP’s own investigators.
Moreover, UNDP’s management has privately acknowledged that fact and is scrambling to fix the mess — even as it loudly denied concerns of a procurement scandal that have been raised by FOX News, among others.
In a confidential report obtained by FOX News, UNDP’s auditors have described the UNDP procurement organization that is spending well over $2 billion annually as:
— overwhelmed by its caseload at headquarters and in the field, while procurement ballooned from $800 million in 2003 to $2.5 billion in 2006 and $2.2 billion last year;
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U.S.A. out of the U.N.
Time to put the Body out of its misery. Disband the UN.
Isn’t this the same UN that obama wants to send 845 BILLION American taxpayers dollars to with his ‘Global Poverty Act’?
The liberals who insist we continue to pump $billions into the corrupt and criminal organization known as the United Nations are the only ones who even pretend to be surprised.
I wonder what Obama has to say? After all, he is the one who sponsored a bill to raise taxes in the US specifically for the UN.
Add to this the sexual abuse going on by U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti and Africa, and one has to wonder why someone (McCain) hasn’t called Barry out for wanting to give the U.N. expanded powers and billions more of our tax money!!!
But maybe I’m expecting too much from the RINO’s in the GOP.
Black Hole for money
Why, I think you are right.
It would be a good club to beat Obama with.
BTTT
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