UN Chief: UN ‘Running Out of Cash’

Cybercast News Service ^ | July 30, 2018 | 4:15 AM EDT | Patrick Goodenough

[AppyPappy]

I can’t stop crying about this

[Bubba_Leroy]

Why the frak are we paying over 20% of the UN’s budget?

[texas booster]

I hear that there is a lot of open land in Libya or Syria these days ... and the locals could use the jobs!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

They say it like its a bad thing.

[Henchster]

...the United States’ contribution of $591.3 million, which comprises 22 percent of the total regular budget for 2018.

What the hell does this two-bit communist/socialist operation need $2.7 billion a year for? They already get free rent.

Cutoff all U.S. funding.

[Rummyfan]

We pay almost $600M and provide the site. For what? To hear all the member states dissing us and Israel? The UN, per Mark Steyn, is what you get when you mix a half-gallon of ice cream with a scoop of dog poop. The resulting mixture resembles the latter more than the former. Thus we get Iran in charge of the Human Rights Commission (as one example).

It did serve a purpose back when we had a bipolar world - the US and the USSR. That world is gone.

[faithhopecharity]

WONDERFUL NEWS!

[Olog-hai]

No; the only purpose it served back then was to empower the USSR, especially via veto power. After all, its charter was patterned after the USSR’s constitution of back then, by Alger Hiss’ design. It was always an abomination.

[cll]

Quite difficult to sail into the sunset from New York.

[M Kehoe]

I got an idea. Sell that property to Trump Inc, and y’all are good to go...to Kandahar.

5.56mm

[Osage Orange]

I say move the U.N. to Haiti...........

Be great P.R. for the U.N. and great for Haiti!!!

[HChampagne]

Lagos would be a nice move.

[Olog-hai]

Well, if the Morris Canal was still there, they could have done it and then make a left turn onto the Delaware Canal.

[mjp]

With two of out every five member states of the United Nations not yet having paid their dues for 2018, the world body says it has never been so far behind in receiving contributions by this time of the year,

low benefit to cost ratio = low position on hierarchy of values

[hal ogen]

Hahahahaaaaa. There is no better organization to “run out of cash” than the un. So sad. So sad.

[Silentgypsy]

So many wonderful suggestions concerning where the UN should go!

[boomop1]

Shut it down Danno.

[Jean2]

Amen! I guess there really is justice in this world after all.

[MortMan]

From a google search:

Each year the United States gives approximately $8 billion in mandatory payments and voluntary contributions to the United Nations and its affiliated organizations. The biggest portion of this money – about $3 billion this year – goes to the U.N.'s regular and peacekeeping budgets.

I notice the article, and the UN by extension, do not clarify whether the supposed $500+B owed by the US is in the mandatory or voluntary column.

I also notice that the UN does not identify what chronic deadbeat countries are in their membership - those that pay little or nothing of their share of the dues.

[DoughtyOne]

I've got a word for him.

D O W N S I Z I N G !

Under Trump all the right numbers are getting bigger and all the wrong numbers keep getting smaller.

Ah cha cha cha cha cha... Groucho ( I think )