Gee, What Would You Tell The U.N. When Given The Bill?

[twyacht]

Hmmm,.....Several "phrases" come to mind...

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.bd6bd0d86d63f1a0e61b464e310712d2.921&show_article=1

The United Nations is owed 4.1 billion dollars by member nations with the United States accounting for more than a quarter of the figure, a top UN official said Thursday.

The global economic crisis has caused the new financial troubles at the world body, Under Secretary General for Management Angela Kane told reporters.

"It has been a difficult year in many ways for many member states because of the economic recession," she said. "They have to tighten their belts."

Kane said the United States was the biggest non-payer, while Chile, Iran, Mexico, Venezuela accounted for nine percent of the arrears between them and another 68 countries made up three percent of the missing money.

Only 13 countries out of the 192 UN members have paid all contributions to all the different UN functions, Kane explained. Some 119 have paid their share of the UN's regular annual budget however.

The UN peacekeeping operation was short of 3.2 billion dollars in contributions and the regular budget was down 787 million dollars. UN courts and a fund to pay for the renovation of the UN headquarters in New York was also short of contributions.

The UN money shortfall has risen to 4.1 billion dollars from 2.24 billion at the end of 2009, she said.

According to Kane, the United States total arrears of 1.2 billion included 691 million dollars to the regular budget and 431 million dollars to the giant peacekeeping division.

Susan Rice, the US ambassador, said that since President Barack Obama came to office in January, 2009, the United States has "paid our dues in full and on time. We continue to do so. We have also paid substantial prior arrears."

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More at link....

Either way, I think profanity restricts my humble response, if left up to me. Last I checked, the unpaid parking tickets by foreign diplomats, claiming "diplomatic immunity" is in the hundreds of thousands.

[ellis4538]

POUND SALT!!!!!!!!!

JMHO

Richard

[MikeBjerum]

And how much are they paying us for doing their dirty work in the wars?  Time after time we hear the UN say they are enforcing something when it is the UN sending the USA to do it.  It is damn easy for countries like France to take their pansy stances as long as they belong to the UN and have us to do their dirty work.

If they don't like the financial picture they can just go right ahead and expel us, take their ball, and go home ... go to a new home.  I'd be willing to turn that big old building into a condo.

Oh yea ... and about Pres. BHO paying the dues and past due bills ... Just one more reason to vote his ass out!

[Big Frank]

Disband the UN immediately. Think of the money we'll save. Our sovereignty too.

[Dakotaranger]

I wouldn't be able to quit laughing long enough to tell them anything

[Sponsor]

[TAB]

Nothing, I'd walk into the office.  pull down my pants and wipe my ass with it.

[PegLeg45]

I'd tell them the same thing that everyone else who owes the US has told the US.


Or, something along the lines of: It rhymes with "buck cough".......

[jp1]

I would have booted the United Numskulls out of the U.S. along time ago. Let some other country pay for all that B.S., along with their own defense!

I’m so sick of part of our paychecks going to support and defend a bunch of morons who don’t appreciate it. It’s just like giving a load of cash to a teenager without a clue of how to take care of themselves. It’s long overdue for some tough love!

One day we may have people in power that do not have a globalist power trip agenda as their goal, and realize that the real way to achieve a global utopia is with true freedom, not with a ruling class controlling the people. Personal responsibility is not only for the individual, but for nations as well!

The prevailing world trend of socialism is motivated by nothing more than power and greed; covered up with the green movement, class warfare and nanny states that produce people who can no longer take care of themselves.

I believe that at this point our only defense is to educate our children about honor, morals, ethics and personal responsibility. If we do that than maybe they can start to bring the world back to sanity.

[tombogan03884]

JP1, take a close look at Asia and Europe, the world trend is away from socialism, which makes our dems look even more stupid.
Dude, The French have told Obummer to grow a pair, and the Chinese told him to apply more capitalist principles to the economy.

And how much are they paying us for doing their dirty work in the wars? Time after time we hear the UN say they are enforcing something when it is the UN sending the USA to do it.  It is damn easy for countries like France to take their pansy stances as long as they belong to the UN and have us to do their dirty work.

If they don't like the financial picture they can just go right ahead and expel us, take their ball, and go home ... go to a new home.  I'd be willing to turn that big old building into a condo.

Oh yea ... and about Pres. BHO paying the dues and past due bills ... Just one more reason to vote his ass out!

That, rent, property taxes, and damages due to crimes commited by UN diplomats under "Diplomatic Immunity".
Range from mountains of parking tickets, shop lifting is almost universal, rape and murder are not uncommon.

[twyacht]

Seems a popular sentiment. Perhaps BHO was right.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/10/how_to_really_reform_the_un.html

President Obama famously responded to a question about "American exceptionalism." Asked by a reporter if he believed in it, Mr. Obama replied, "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism." It was if he'd just gotten back from Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average.


The U.N. has managed to overlook the captivity of hundreds of millions of people in the Soviet bloc for nearly half a century. The U.N. never heard of the Gulag Archipelago. The U.N. turned a blind eye on Mao Zedong's half century of murderous rule in China. Tens of millions of forced abortions take place in China today -- with the active assistance of the U.N. Fund for Population Activity (UNFPA).

Cuba -- a member of the U.N.'s notorious Human Rights Council -- is under the grip of a senescent Communist dictatorship. Orlando Zapata -- the true Cuban champion of human rights -- died in a Castro prison recently, following a hunger strike in which he demanded nothing more than what the U.N. proclaimed in its Universal Declaration of Human Rights more than sixty years ago.

Still, the United States pays more than 22 percent ($1,800,000,000) of the U.N.'s annual budget. That's because FDR considered the United States exceptional, the leader of the free world.

Since President Obama thinks everyone is exceptional, let's cut the U.S. share of the U.N. budget back to 6 percent. After all, we are constantly told by the Obama administration that U.S. claims to preeminence are arrogant and offensive to others in Europe and the developing world.

If we are only 6 percent of the world's really exceptional folks, let's knock our contribution to the U.N. down to that figure.

What? The U.N. as currently structured could not survive on that amount? Precisely.

But a U.N. headquarters moved from New York to Geneva, Switzerland could be trimmed back to its core functions as a world forum. The UNFPA should be the first body to be scuttled, followed by the Inter-Governmental Climate Panel (IPCC), which has become nothing more than Al Gore's sandbox. The IPCC recently had to backtrack on its environmental doomsday predictions. Those glaciers in the Himalayas are not going to melt by 2035, after all. They're slated to melt by 2305. Just a typo, the IPCC gnomes claimed.

The U.N. Human Rights Council should be deep-sixed. It's more than an outrage to have Cuba, Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia sitting on a body so named -- it's hypocrisy on stilts.

By moving the U.N. headquarters to Geneva, the traditional city of diplomacy, we can avoid the gross humiliation of having the world's leading terrorist -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- come to our greatest city to spew his hatred from the platform of the U.N. He represents an Iranian regime that murdered 241 U.S. Marines and Navy Corpsmen in Beirut in 1983 and that threatened 52 American hostages with death for 444 days in our Tehran embassy. He is killing American servicemen and women in Iraq and Afghanistan today. Even as he spoke to the U.N. General Assembly, he was holding two American hikers prisoner. And yet we have to pay New York's police for providing security for his wretched life!

If all the U.N. can be is a forum for the airing of international disputes, then Geneva is the obvious location. President Obama could embrace this move as a cost-cutter and a first step in his effort to show the world a kinder and gentler U.S. profile.

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Makes sense.