Only if we contract it out to some of those fine Israeli Bulldozer drivers.
Posted on 11/29/2004 12:19:50 AM PST by kattracks
WASHINGTON — Congress is likely to move to reduce U.S. funding of the United Nations if leaders at Turtle Bay don't come clean and institute major reforms in the wake of the Iraq oil-for-food scandal, The Post has learned.Recent interviews with Congress members and staff investigators revealed growing shock and outrage at the scope of history's biggest financial scandal, in which Saddam Hussein is alleged to have ripped off $21.3 billion from a humanitarian program intended to provide food and medicine to the Iraqi people.
The officials said there is increasing sentiment to take drastic action, including cutting U.S funding if the United Nations doesn't make radical changes in its secretive policies and questionable management procedures.
The $1.12 billion annual U.S. contribution to the United Nations represents 22 percent of the world body's budget.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Gosh, I don't think this idea will pass the "global test".
But it darned well might pass the "Smell Test"
Some of the old time crumudgeons used to speak of the UN as a Trojan Horse. Time is proving them right.
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Congress is likely to move to reduce U.S. funding of the United Nations if leaders at Turtle Bay don't come clean and institute major reforms in the wake of the Iraq oil-for-food scandal, The Post has learned.
Jesse Helms UN whackeroo pingeroo!
22%
no curds, no whey
This is not the way to respond to this predicament. Kofi & Son, France, Germany and Russia all played cute with Iraq in defiance of numerous UN resolutions and program regulations. We can do a lot better with this scandal than withold their allowance!
We are probably at the worst of it; funding terrorism by way of U.N. donations just to keep the corrupt 'friends of the U.N.' alive, while they serve their own corrupt interests.
Better for us to STOP the funding; pull the real estate in NYC. . .give these people thirty days to evacuate the premises and and the US as well.
Doubt that this corruption is such a surprise. . .but the Iraq invasion brings the 'discovery phase' of this debacle to the attetetion of the world-at-large.
ie. . ..attention. . .(corr.)
Sorry, the first part of my post was cut off. I said that that if I were W, I'd issue an Executive Order to have that building evacuated, and on day 61, have the Army Corps of Engineers further evacuate the building before imploding it.
But there's too much pollution in the East River already.
"But one congressional investigator said that a move to reduce or cut off U.S. funding could quickly gain momentum "
Let's help them gain momentum! Phone your homeboys toll free: 1-800-648-3516
Whitehouse Comment Lines:
202-456-6213 and =202-456-1111
Let them stay there.
Just terminate, electricity, natural gas, water, telephone and cable TV service to all UN facilities.
They still have stairs if they want to use the high rise buildings without elevators and without the lights and air conditioning energized by electricity.
They can always carry buckets of water from the river up the stairs. They can knock out windows for fresh air.
One positive result will be for the overpaid crooks at the UN to be forced to live the squalor of the people in their native countries. It will keep them "in touch" with the lifestyles of their people "back home."
Wake up, fella.
You forgot to mention it's also a hotbed for spies against us. Why do you think no other nation wants to host it?
UN vampires need blood to survive. Cut off their money (blood) and they'll curl up and die.
WOOOO HOOOOOO
Could we see them go from wine and cheese to
Popcorn and Ice tea ?
I thought I would go against you all and say something good about the UN, but I can't think of anything...
I say kick everyone out and start over again. And don't let any corrupt dictatorship countries in again, and NO NGO"S! Get rid of all those special intrest groups, including greenpeace, animal rights groups, and the rest of those lunatics. Throw that earth charter in the garbage and burn it.
The UN was well aware of this and still proceeded to condemn Israel of Human Rights violations.
The UN is over, put it out of it's misery and OURS.
Only if we contract it out to some of those fine Israeli Bulldozer drivers.
Reasonable is in the eye of the beholder... to my eyes, reasonable is pulling out of the UN, demolishing the HQ, and arresting everyone remotely connected to either Oil-for-Food or terror.
Why not make it into something useful? Maybe a homeless shelter, an animal shelter, a hospital, or just a very large, empty, bare spot?
Japan pays anothe 20%. Both nations should cut their contributions down to the same level as France: 7%.
It's about time!!!!
An article in the New York Sun last week indicated that NY City legislators are considering the denial of a UN lease extension.
How about a deportation center..............
"But it was the weasels who scuppered any return to business-as-usual. Messrs Chirac and de Villepin barely paused for breath before moving on from their pre-war sabotage programme to a revised post-war sabotage programme."
The United Nations Wants to TAX you!
"Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali ... urged the [UN] to consider imposing its own taxes to become less dependent on the United States...."
-Washington Times, January 16, 1996
Are you concerned that...
...numerous taxation schemes to finance the UN are being considered?
Economist James Tobin proposed in 1972 that the UN be the recipient of a tax of 0.05% on foreign exchange transactions. In 1993, the Ford Foundation produced Financing an Effective United Nations, a report containing recommendations that the UN tax airline traffic, shipping, and arms sales. In 1995, the UN-funded Commission on Global Governance suggested that the UN collect levies from those who use "flight lanes, sea lanes for ships, ocean fishing areas, and the electromagnetic spectrum." Ultimately, of course, the burden of all taxation falls on consumers.
Are you concerned that...
...a State Department study specifically proposed giving the UN taxing power and, ultimately, control of the world?
In 1962, the State Department financed a study entitled "A World Effectively Controlled by the United Nations." The report outlined what would be needed for such a total world government: "a mandatory universal membership," an ability to use "physical force," and "compulsory jurisdiction" of its courts. One of the UN's "principle features," stated the report, would be "enforceable taxing powers." (Emphasis added.)
Are you concerned that...
...no matter how much our nation gives, the UN will never be satisfied?
In addition to hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars in foreign aid, our nation has provided the UN with tens of billions more for its programs since 1945. Currently, U.S. contributions make up 25% of the UN's annual budget. But, in his May 2001 speech at Notre Dame University, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan complained with a typical anit-American attitude, "It is shameful that the United States ... should be one of the least generous in terms of helping the world's poor."
Are you concerned that...
...taxing authority would fuel an unaccountable UN Superstate?
Former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said of a UN tax: "We would not be under the daily financial will of member states who are unwilling to pay up." UN Founder Harlan Cleveland made the same point in Futures: Rather than relying on "the worn-out policy of year-to-year decisions by individual governments" (about how much to give the UN), "what's needed is a flow of funds for development which are generated automatically under international control." And there would be no Congress to limit the UN's appetite for your tax dollars!
The United Nations Wants to Take Your Land!
"Private land ownership ... contributes to social injustice.... Public control of land use is therefore indispensable."
- United Nations "Habitat I" Conference Report, 1976
Are you concerned...
...that the UN is militantly anti-property rights?
The UN is dominated by socialist, communist, and other collectivist regimes that are hostile to private property, the basis of our freedom and prosperity. Karl Marx wrote in the Communist Manifesto that "the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private property." Marx continued: "In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend."
Are you concerned...
...that the UN intends to carry out Marx's plan?
In true Marxist fashion, the report of the UN "Habitat I" Conference declares that private land ownership "contributes to social injustice.... Public control of land use is therefore indispensable...." Agenda 21, the UN's massive environmental manifesto, envisions a UN empowered to control and micro-manage our planetary environment and the actions of every person on Earth. It says: "All countries should undertake a comprehensive national inventory of their land resources" and "develop national land-management plans." The UN's Assessment would "reallocate" property rights and have "stakeholder groups," instead of property owners, make decisions on private land use.
Are you concerned...
...that our own U.S. government is adopting many of the UN's anti-property rights and policies and treaties?
The U.S. has signed Agenda 21 and has begun implementing the UN's "Wildlands Project," an incredible plan to push millions of Americans off their land to make vast nature preserves out of half of the nation. Also, under the UN's 1988 Convention on Narcotics, the U.S. has adopted unconstitutional "asset forfeiture" laws that allow seizure of property without due process.
Are you concerned...
...that UN treaties could destroy our heritage of freedom?
Nobel Prizewinning economist, Friedrich A. Hayek, noted that "the system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves."
I find that a reasonable alternative. . .actually, soounds like a winner to me.
Of course, good real estate never problem in NYC.
I think Aracadia's idea is a good, in-your-face- reminder of the sins of this collective fraud.
I have a better idea. Let's just kick them out and be done with it.
I hope they do!
The UN is accountable to nobody. But at least somebody in congress has the nads to try and tighten the purse strings. Let them headquarter in France.
Is the HBM (has been media) covering this story yet?
Thanks for the ping!
I would eliminate the funding, not CUT it!
No, and my guess is this: If they DO cover this story, it will HASTEN the fall of the UN.
Side note: I think Castro is not long for this world, and a la Arafat will die within a year or so. What plans is the US making for the future, in Cuba? I would so love to see it prosper and flower in a free Republic of Cuba...
From your lips to God's ears.
What you said.
"Can we bulldoze it into the East River?"
Lock all the doors first. Or we could replace all the Muzac with the comedy stylings of Carrot Top! That will get the rats out of the ship!
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