Great e-mail. My hope is the W looks to other outfits (including faith based) that are not crooked. We'll see...
And here is my reply to his reply:
First of all, I am NOT a sir; you'd know that if you had actually read my email, as I signed it.
And, secondly, I read the EXACT quote in the Washington Times, so I know EXACTLY what he said; the White House may have to be politically correct and dance around you UN posers, but the rest of the people in the United States do NOT.
Who exactly were you referring to when you said "stingy," if not the United States and other nations?
This IS your statement, isn't it?
But U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland suggested that the United States and other Western nations were being "stingy" with relief funds, saying there would be more available if taxes were raised.
"It is beyond me why are we so stingy, really," the Norwegian-born U.N. official told reporters. "Christmastime should remind many Western countries at least, [of] how rich we have become."
"There are several donors who are less generous than before in a growing world economy," he said, adding that politicians in the United States and Europe "believe that they are really burdening the taxpayers too much, and the taxpayers want to give less. It's not true. They want to give more."
All your snarky remarks have done is turn the American citizens against YOU and your program. It's none of your or the UN's business how much this country and it's citizens donate to any particular charity. We already give more than any other country to the UN now; where's that money? Don't you budget for disasters? You have absolutely NO business telling us how or what to donate.
We are a sovereign country, in case you have forgotten.
You may call us "stingy," but we call you and the UN "wasteful".........and downright corrupt.
Howlin @ FR
Raleigh, NC
Must be the exchange rate difference. (or the fact that the French bought themselves a piece of the securty council)