$2,957,000,000: U.S. Taxpayers Will Fund Lion’s Share of UN Budget Again in 2016

cnsnews.com ^ | Patrick Goodenough

[rktman]

American taxpayers will once again be liable for more than one-fifth of the United Nations' regular budget next year, as well as more than one-quarter of the much-larger peacekeeping budget - a total of approximately $2,957,000,000.

The U.N. General Assembly just before Christmas approved a regular operating budget of $5.4 billion for the 2016-17 period. (That budget is calculated biannually.) Of the $2.7 billion earmarked for 2016, the U.S. will account for 22 percent, or $594 million.

Of the separate peacekeeping budget - $8.27 billion for the year ending June 30 - the U.S. is liable for 28.5783 percent, or $2.363 billion. Combined, the two U.S. contributions amount to just under $3 billion.

In actual fact the full extent of U.S. funding for the U.N. system will be considerably more than that: The $2.957 billion figure comprises the U.S. "assessed contributions" to the two main budgets, but the U.S. in addition provides much more in "voluntary contributions" to a range of U.N. agencies.

(The last time the administration was obliged by law to provide Congress with a full breakdown, the total for fiscal year 2010 was $7.69 billion. The reporting requirement fell away in 2011.)

[rktman]

Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I sure "feel" swell knowing we're making our "contribution" to help save the erf and everybody on it. /s

[cloudmountain]

Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I sure "feel" swell knowing we're making our "contribution" to help save the erf and everybody on it. /s

Lol. If WE don't pay for it, it won't get done.

It will only get "half-done" anyway because of all the greed, corruption and messing around that goes with any government...and OUR government is the very best in the world. Go figure.

[George from New England]

UN = global welfare

Take from hard working US patriots and give to low life corrupt governments around the globe. We need a ‘Charity Navigator’ report on this U.N. Betcha less than 10 cents on the dollar gets to anyone in need.

[Squantos]

Tear it down an make it a park for the unemployed and homeless refugees ......oh wait.

[cloudmountain]

UN = global welfare
Take from hard working US patriots and give to low life corrupt governments around the globe. We need a ‘Charity Navigator’ report on this U.N. Betcha less than 10 cents on the dollar gets to anyone in need.

BINGO! I think you nailed it, George.

[Rodamala]

When the Wealthy and Successful Real Estate Mogul is elected President, the U.N. will be evicted from NYC and the U.N. building will be redeveloped into a posh hi-rise apartment building.

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[<1/1,000,000th%]

About one-fourth of what our government spends on free Obamaphones.

[Dick Bachert]

Oh, be still my heart!

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Waaaaayyyy back in 1984, WGST-AM radio in Atlanta (not exactly a hotbed of radical, conservative Americanist philosophy) polled its listening audience and asked the question “Is the United Nations doing a good job?” 81% responded “NO!”

So, DECADES later, why the hell are we still involved with one of the most corrupt and liberty-threatening organizations ever invented?

Sounds like a question for YOUR congress critter’s next TOWN HALL MEETING to me.

Some essential history if you are to fully grasp the rot – and the plot -- at the core of this thoroughly corrupt gaggle of over-educated morons:

ORIGINS OF THE UN, PART 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAzl21AfnZU

ORIGINS OF THE UN, PART 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0qV2OM8ajQ

ORIGINS OF THE UN, PART 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrkshIXYiPs

[txrefugee]

Woodrow Wilson, the most Leftist president until Obama, should have been impeached for bartering our sovereignty for his globalist wet dream of a United Nations. What has been our total expenditure on this coven of America haters since its inception?

We need to ask our “Representatives” to explain this monstrous waste of our taxes, since Paul Ryan’s budget hasn’t reduced the amount of US money poured down this rat hole one iota.

[rktman]

#congresscrittersdontcare

[txrefugee]

No, our treasonous government signed off on a deal with the infamous one-worlder, Rockefeller, that the UN would remain on that piece of real estate forever…or until Iran sends a nuclear bomb to blow it and all of Manhattan off the face of the earth.

[Dick Bachert]

#theamericanpeopleapparentlydontgiveashiteither

[rktman]

Unless we’re talking about the hilarious adventures of the kardouchians. Then the people care. Sad damn state of affairs. Talk about a kerfuffle. Wait until caitlyn and moochie show up wearing the same outfit. LOL!

[Let's Roll]

And advance islam in any way possible.

[huldah1776]

Anyone campaigning to get the UN out of our land and to drop funding?

[napscoordinator]

No pity. We had the chance to change it with John Bolten who did nothing. We also have had the majority Senate and Congress with a Republican President and nothing. It appears that voters through their representatives don’t mind the UN for some horrible reason. We screwed the pooch and stuck with it until we get someone who wants to get rid of the UN. That could take decades. Even Ted Cruz didn’t mention getting rid of it when he announced his 4/5 Departments he wanted gone.

[Nuc 1.1]

The first foreign policy question at the next debate should be “Do you favor the United States withdrawing from the UN? Why or why not?” I for one would be interested in hearing the responses.

[rktman]

LOL! I’m sure MEgan would be up for posing that question. Or some other important question like: “Mr. Trump, why do you hate me?”

[Nuc 1.1]

Wouldn’t that be a great dust up?! I bet you across the stage all you would see are deer in headlight looks. Happy Newyear FReeper!

[NorthMountain]

Get the US out of the UN!
Gen the UN out of the US!

(should have been done in the 1980s)