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As Ban Ki-moon Calls for Belt-Tightening, Confidential Documents Show He’s Been On a Hiring Binge
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/21/ban-ki-moon-expands-secretariat-despite-belt-tightening-warnings-managers/ ^

Posted on 03/21/2011 11:55:38 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA

EXCLUSIVE: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who has recently issued dire warnings that the organization must rein in its ballooning expenditures, increased the size of his own Secretariat by 38 percent, nearly twice the growth rate of the rest of the U.N. system worldwide during the same one-year period, according to confidential figures obtained by Fox News.

Moreover, those hiring figures do not yet factor in another major boost in U.N. Secretariat spending that has taken place over the past two years.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: broke; moon; spending; un



Ban Ki-moon: "Just put the costs on the USA's tab"

1 posted on 03/21/2011 11:55:46 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

And why haven’t our heroic Rs in Congress cut the UN out of te budget? Is it because the UN is such a high priority with the voters? (sarc.)


2 posted on 03/21/2011 12:03:29 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Red in Blue PA

Obama taught him how to spend his brains out and THEN fake concern and agitate for belt tightening.


3 posted on 03/21/2011 12:05:27 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I do believe that obambi is doing ‘on-the-job’ training for taking over the UN.


4 posted on 03/21/2011 12:16:11 PM PDT by Bob Buchholz
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To: Red in Blue PA
Hey, he's just doing what the state of NY has been doing for the last couple of years.

Though the UN makes NYS look like a piker...

5 posted on 03/21/2011 12:21:56 PM PDT by mewzilla (Were members of both political parties in on the Lockerbie bomber deal?)
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To: mewzilla

Whoa, my bad. NYS makes the UN look like a piker. Jeez, in my dreams...


6 posted on 03/21/2011 12:22:53 PM PDT by mewzilla (Were members of both political parties in on the Lockerbie bomber deal?)
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