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Topic: U.S. Taxpayers Will Continue
to Pay More Than One-Fifth
of U.N. Budget |
U.S. Taxpayers Will Continue
to Pay More Than One-Fifth
of U.N. Budget
Cybercast News Service, by Patrick Goodenough
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 12/28/2012 11:29:47 AM
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| In one of its last actions of the year, the United Nations General Assembly on Christmas Eve agreed to extend for another three years the formula that has U.S. taxpayers contributing more than one-fifth of the world body’s regular budget. No member-state called for a recorded vote, and the resolution confirming the contributions that each country will make for the 2013-2015 period was summarily adopted. The assembly also approved a two-year U.N. budget of $5.4 billion. The U.S. has accounted for 22 percent of the total regular budget every year since 2000, and will now continue
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Comments:
Isn´t it grand that we continue to give funds to a criminal organization that is intent on destroying us. s/o
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 12/28/2012 11:33:19 AM (No. 9087493)
Calling all (any?) Republicans? Yoo-hoo!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Chriseh, 12/28/2012 11:37:48 AM (No. 9087503)
When they write the final history of the USA, they will say they paid for their own down fall initiated by corrupt and criminal politicians.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
terry_tr6, 12/28/2012 11:41:43 AM (No. 9087513)
guess we should be grateful they only are having us pay 1/5th
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LudicrousSextus, 12/28/2012 12:00:07 PM (No. 9087543)
Ya´ gotta´ laugh. An organization who´s ´peace-keepers´ routinely walk away and let the indigenous people get slaughtered...
...Who issues toothless Mickey Mouse class ´warnings´ to Iran as a primary profession...
...and routinely flies a bunch of bureaucratic jackasses around the world for lobster dinners while they demand ´rich countries subsidize us poor folks!´
One of the primary indicators of how spineless the US has become - is a continued association and subsidizing of this internationally worthless crew of clowns.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
john56, 12/28/2012 12:18:28 PM (No. 9087570)
Let´s cut this to 1/10th this year, 1/15th the next and 1/20th the year after that.
And then only increased for a modest rate of inflation.
Otherwise, the UN is free to take their cadre of overpaid, underworked freeloading diplomats to whatever third world dump that wants ´em.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Seething Citizen, 12/28/2012 12:23:59 PM (No. 9087577)
What is wrong with our nation? Why would we be willing to pay more than any other nation in the world to support a very anti-American, anti-western organization, also the largest totally corrupt organization in the world! All that money could be used for our own country or used for tax reduction.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
WAN2, 12/28/2012 12:42:25 PM (No. 9087606)
And they used to blame CAPITALISTS for selling the rope used to hang them!!! One wonders the effect of Romney campaigning on getting out of the U.N.? Or quashing the ban on incandescent light bulbs? Or...
Hello? Is there anyone there?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Susieq1, 12/28/2012 1:28:16 PM (No. 9087669)
Defund and evict.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
kctiger, 12/28/2012 1:45:16 PM (No. 9087691)
As far as I can tell, all my tax dollars pay for stuff I don´t want to pay for.
How do you defund?
Maybe we ALL should just stop going to work?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee, 12/28/2012 1:56:08 PM (No. 9087698)
Funding this den of vipers, and defunding our own defense - "don´t worry, be happy", it´s all for the good of the whole world.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
kanphil, 12/28/2012 1:56:56 PM (No. 9087699)
And we have to borrow 40% of it from China. Something just doesn´t compute here.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hamrman, 12/28/2012 4:38:17 PM (No. 9087864)
Hey all of you brain dead pols in Mordor on the Potomac, this is the areas where spending cuts should occur and evict this criminal organization from NY!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Twiggy, 12/29/2012 2:16:05 AM (No. 9088226)
If we could get rid of the UN and most of the foreign aid we pay, we could keep our head above water. Why can´t these politicians realize that we can´t support or control the whole world. Take care of the country you were elected to preserve.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
4Justice, 12/29/2012 4:15:52 AM (No. 9088262)
We shouldn´t be giving one penny to these freeloading, elitest leeches. Their only goal, besides amassing power and wealth for themselves, is to destroy the last free and powerful country that´s in their way keeping them from creating their one world governance.
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