Posted on 03/05/2011 4:09:52 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Critics of U.S. spending on the United Nations got a huge boost—and supporters of that spending, especially the Obama Administration, took a body blow—from an unlikely source this week: the British government, long one of the U.N.’s staunchest supporters.
In a sweeping and hard-nosed reorganization of priorities for its $10.6 billion multilateral foreign aid program, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron has pulled the financial plug entirely on four U.N. agencies at the end of next year, put three others judged merely “adequate” on notice that they could face the same fate unless they improve their performance “as a matter of absolute urgency;” and issued pointed criticisms of almost all the rest.
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Oh my. The returned bust of Churchill just landed on 0bama’s toe.
And I hope it broke his foot! I know it is time to pull the plug on the UN all together. Let’s save a lot of money by doing so and tell the UN to move to Europe or any 3rd world country.
Is that Charlie Sheen on the right?
Leadership. How refreshing to see it once again.
It’s way past time to get out of the UN. I practically stood up and cheered when I read this.
But what about the children?
We’ve gotten some UN funding cuts out of the new congress. Not enough but its a start.
They are actually increasing money for UNICEF. But the rest of it is being cut.
I believe the BRits didn’t recommend funding cuts for UNICEF.
But I’d also ask the same question to the UN. After Oil for Food and the news stories of children being raped by UN uniformed officers, I’d be asking THEM, what about the children? They cared more about feathering their own corrupt nests than feeding and caring for suffering children.
Where they belong. We can airdrop the containers of cash from a c130.
Wow! Taking performance into the equation to decide if the money is well spent is such a novel idea. We should try it.
They would like you to think so.
Their Agenda 21 policies have infiltrated into every city and town in this country.
For starters,
review the 600 plus local governments that have membership in ICLEI at ICLEI.org Every one of these are taking direction from ICLEI on implementing UN policys and Intl. agreements at the local level that the Congress have never approved.
Well, he is generally on the left, but in that picture, YES, he is the one on the right.
Even that number is likely a significant under-estimation, since many U.N. bodes operate as “implementing agencies”—program managers—for U.S. funds that are channeled through non-U.N. institutions, such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), where the U.S. has donated $5.1 billion since 2002, and pledged an additional $4.4 billion. The implementing agencies typically charge a percentage for their services.
Obama loves these guys:
"Investigators working on behalf of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a United Nations (UN) alternative funding organization, have found that much of the group's $21.7 billion development fund has been lost to corruption. The celebrity-endorsed financing institution's inspector general's office found that in some countries, up to two-thirds of grant money has been misappropriated or stolen."
Sans parachute, and it would be really helpful if they put a big red 'X' on top of the compound.
I'm setting up a pool for when the U.S. announces it will make up the difference.
My bet is Tuesday, March 8 at noon.
“Oh my. The returned bust of Churchill just landed on 0bama’s toe.”
Best comment of the day.
We are placing four organisations in “special measures” and demanding they improve their performance as a matter of absolute urgency. These organisations are UNESCO, FAO, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the International Organisation for Migration. In four other cases the contribution to UK development objectives is so poor that DFID will withdraw our core funding altogether. These four are UN-HABITAT, ILO, UNIDO and UNISDR.
The £50m savings that DFID will make by stopping funding through these organisations will be reinvested in the top performing agencies which are having a major impact on eliminating poverty.
After reading thru the report, I really see no major cuts to the UN, just a redistribution of money.
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