You were kinder to him than my email. Forbes was correct...we should deport the UN!
Great job !
I wonder what "commissions" Kofi, JE, others will extract from the relief assistance food/money chain?
There is no reason to think this tsunami effort will be any different, than oil for food.
What is the status of the Paul Volcker investigation, of the "Oil for Food" UN humanitarian assistance ripoff scandal?
You should have told him how you really feel....Great job with both emails and thanks for sharing with the rest of us.
The POWER of FR!
Those who are most condemning of capitalism are the eagerest to benefit from it.
"Mr. Speaker--I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member on this floor knows it.
We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I ever heard that the government was in arrears to him.
Is just as true today as it was then. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of private charities collecting monies and supplies for this tragedy. Materials that will get there a lot quicker than anything going through government channels. Instead of calling for the national government to spend taxpayer dollars, donate to these charities instead. And yes for the record, I already have. Would you believe it? There's even one right here in our own state....
Damn Good Question. You incorporated a lot of my concerns. Thanks.
www.samaritanspurse.org
Can we get out of the UN yet?
My Email to mr egeland
Dear Mr. Egeland,
Your comment on the United States being Stingy only shows the need for the United States of America to remove itself from the United Nations and to evict the United Nations from the United States. The people of the United States have always been the greatest donaters to the needs of the people of the world.
I for one will be finding other avenues to donate to the disaster aid in Indonesia. You sir and the rest of the corrupt bureacracy of the United Nations can go straight to hell.
Without regards
Leo Flood
Killeen, Texas
I sent Kofi an e-mail. I told him I use the U.N. flag to wipe my boots.
These diplomat types are so used to dealing with each other in careful language, that when they get something that cuts the s*** out --- they don't know what to say!! They forget that the US is made of real people who can speak for themselves----and do!!
Your E-mail and follow-up was PERFECT! LOLOL!
The UN keeps stepping in it, and they just don't get it!
How great, while I am knocked on my back with the flu, you are out doing the things I wanted to earlier today. Good job.
you inspired me, just sent this:
Mr Egeland,
We, the people of the United States of America, live in a free representative republic. That means that we are free to think for ourselves, unlike those who live in, say, a socialist society. We are very wealthy as a nation and are also very generous precisely because of our freedom.
When you force someone to give money it is not charity, but coercion or robbery. In the United States of America our ancestors fought against taxation without representation; this means, Mr Egeland, that the likes of you can not force us to give you money. We will give, and we will give significantly, because we are a good people, not because you have ordered us to.
By the way, your comments about generosity are laughable in light of the Oil for Food Scandal. How many billions of dollars did the "generous" leaders of the United Nations siphon away from the needy people of Iraq? Kofi Annan can have his son reap a tremendous fortune at the expense of the Iraqi community, and the organization that fails to expel him, and fails to even cooperate in the investigation of his pilferings,
dares to criticize America's generosity? People in glass houses, most especially huge, vile, corrupt, glass houses in New York City should not throw stones.
Great work Howlin! Thanks.
Dear Sir,
Wrong again Jan Egeland.
Sorry, Mr Egeland. Unfortunately the left wing inthis country has done it's level best to stamp out Christmas in the last few years and so , unfortunately , the "christmas spirit' that evokes so much generosity, has been sadly diminished as a result.
Deal with it..
You reap what you sow..
You got the same response that I did although my email was a bit nastier in that I suggested that the US use send its annual dues directly to disaster aid rather than to support the UN pimps. Told them that the UN could use the money from Food for Oil scam to make up the difference.
