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Trump Says He Could Save U.N. Nearly $1 Billion
A.B.C. ^ | Spetember 23, 2015 | No Attribution

Posted on 09/23/2015 10:49:10 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey

New York billionaire entrepreneur Donald Trump says he can potentially save the United Nations $1 billion. Could it be a case of unexpected humanitarianism, hyper-aggressive business, bravado, or perhaps all of the above?

In an interview with ABCNEWS.com, the real estate and casino mogul says the perpetually cash-strapped organization has massively overvalued the preliminary projected cost for renovating and expanding its 50-year-old historic headquarters on the East River in Manhattan.

A U.N. study released last year estimated it could cost from $964 million to $1.054 billion to renovate the complex over a 6-year or 12-year period, plus up to $500 million more in interest payments on loans. The cost, theoretically, would be borne by member countries including the United States.

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KEYWORDS: trump; un; unitednations
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To: 867V309

That would make 500,000 rapists.


41 posted on 09/24/2015 5:10:25 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: minnesota_bound

Sounds like a plan.


42 posted on 09/24/2015 5:22:28 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Close the UN in NYC and move everything over to the UN in Geneva, Switzerland.


43 posted on 09/24/2015 5:34:53 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

United Nations Office at Geneva
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Office_at_Geneva


44 posted on 09/24/2015 5:35:42 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: MeshugeMikey
NOT ONE MORE DIME OF TAX SERFS MONEY SHOULD GO TO THE USELESS NATIONS. They should have maintained it all along, the saudi's have enough money to build an entire new building OVER THERE. LET THE DA$$ thing crumble into ash. And the diplomats go home we are tired of supporting their commie trash ideas.


45 posted on 09/24/2015 6:13:11 AM PDT by GailA (mises to Our Troops, you won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I totally agree with you 100%. You hit the nail on the head.
Throw them all out, let them go to the saudi’s and build one over there with saudi money.


46 posted on 09/24/2015 6:14:33 AM PDT by GailA (mises to Our Troops, you won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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To: mkjessup

I’ve seen folks make an argument that we need to keep the UN around before. In some ways it makes sense. In others, it’s such a problematic anti U. S. institution that I question if it’s worth anything at all to us.

The U. N. is as reflexively anti U. S. as the most citizens of the U. S. are reflexively pro Israel.

It’s just a diseased organization right down to it’s child raping “piece keepers”. Yes, I meant that word.


47 posted on 09/24/2015 9:35:54 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Maybe we could compromise and just give the City of San Francrisco to the United Nations. Let all the perverted denizens of that Sodom on the Bay become ‘international’ residents.


48 posted on 09/24/2015 9:44:53 AM PDT by mkjessup (If you really support Ted Cruz, don't be trashing Trump, Cruz doesn't, why should you?)
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To: mkjessup

My thoughts lean toward giving the U. N. the plot of land that is as far out in the Atlantic as the Palestinians want to drive Israel to in the Mediterranean.


49 posted on 09/24/2015 9:57:40 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

He could save the US at least that much by evicting the UN completely, lock, stock & barrel. I hear Russia’s nice, or how about Ukraine?


50 posted on 09/24/2015 10:10:28 AM PDT by OriginalChristian (The end of America, as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Trump doesn’t get it. The object is not to save the UN money, the object is to get the UN out of the US.


51 posted on 09/24/2015 10:13:37 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: FlingWingFlyer

BINGO those were pretty much my thoughts on the stinking UN as well.

It evidently doesnt bother the would be candidate form NYC that he’d be making money at the expense of LIBERTY..worldwide!!

that should FROST the TT’s


52 posted on 09/24/2015 11:57:31 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: minnesota_bound

thats better than the current...”plan”


53 posted on 09/24/2015 12:03:35 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: jwalsh07

my very first F.R. full on DITTOS!

UN out of the US..along with anybody who thinks its the cats meow!!!

Freegards


54 posted on 09/24/2015 12:06:27 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: JudyinCanada

ZImbabwe!!!

Freegards!


55 posted on 09/24/2015 12:12:58 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: TexasTransplant

“Dittos” and Freegards!!!


56 posted on 09/24/2015 12:31:34 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: momincombatboots

The UN should be disbanded..but fat chance of that ever happening.

given the share of the UN BILLS UNCLE SAM....aka YOU AND I pays the un ...The Self Presumptive Candidate form NYC...would taking OUR MONEY to build the commies a fancy new SHRINE..

wow whatta guy!


57 posted on 09/24/2015 12:34:03 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: ScottinVA

Jonestown Guyana!!


58 posted on 09/24/2015 12:34:54 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Captain7seas

I dont think he wants to understand or does and doesnt see things that way that you and I do


59 posted on 09/24/2015 12:35:37 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: GailA

Amen!


60 posted on 09/24/2015 12:41:15 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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