Despite America’s $17.5 trillion in debt, President Obama wants to funnel even more of your tax dollars to the United Nations. Is this really what he should be doing with the funding he slashed from the military budget?
When U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday, the panel will consider a budget request for international organizations that is 33 percent bigger than last year’s, including a 43 percent hike in U.S. contributions to peacekeeping missions.The administration’s fiscal year 2015 budget request for the U.N. and other organizations is $4.036 billion, up from $3.031 billion in FY2014. For contributions to peacekeeping missions, it is asking for $2.518 billion, up from $1.765 last year.
The $2.518 billion for peacekeeping amounts to 28.36 percent of the U.N.’s total peacekeeping budget. The U.S. also provides 22 percent of the separate U.N. operating budget. The U.N. has 193 member states.
According to Heritage Foundation scholar Brett Schaefer, President Clinton in 1994 signed a law setting a 25 percent cap on U.S. contributions for U.N. peacekeeping, which at the time were running at around 30 percent.
In 2000 the U.N. committed to reducing the U.S. peacekeeping assessment to 25 percent of the total and through the following decade it was gradually reduced, from 30.28 percent in 2000 to 25.96 percent in 2009. But then in 2010 it began picking up again as the administration and Congress amended U.S. law to raise the cap for specific periods.
“The U.S. should resume pressure on the U.N. to lower the U.S. peacekeeping assessment to 25 percent by refusing to pay more than this amount and tying payment of any resulting arrears to adoption by the U.N. of a maximum peacekeeping assessment of 25 percent,” Schaefer wrote in a recent brief.
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Schaefer said Congress should reject the “peacekeeping response mechanism” proposal.
“Generally, such [peacekeeping] missions take weeks or months to stand up and should be funded through transfer of existing resources, the normal budgetary process, or, if necessary, emergency supplemental appropriations,” he argued.
Source: CNS News
we the people are tired of you giving our money to other nations. we want to have this voted on when it is over 50 million dollars, after all you are suppose to work for us just in case you forget…………..
also the internet is not your’s to give away. keep your hands off it.
i think it is time we ask for a recall
this is so much BS! there is No need to be sending money to the UN. We need to get out of the UN now!! Keep what money we have here at HOME where it belongs!
People we are going to have to open our eyes. Obama is going to do something soon for if the Democrats go into the November election he knows its going to be bad for the Democrats. Obama and the liberals have got us into debt over 17 trillion and he is cutting back on our military to the lowest since before Word War II . Now North and South Korea are shooting at each other, Puttin is making this little girly girl president look like a total idiot. The middle East hates us and will destroy us at the first chance they get. America is falling apart as we speak, and the Democrats and some Republicans set back and let Obama do anything he wants. When at the Democrat convention they booed God our fate may have already been sealed just like the Titanic when the designers said even God himself could not sink her. That ship was doomed before it ever left port, it was going to sink even if it had never left port. God will not be mocked. A friend told me what he through Obama would do, and I have always said that something like this would happen. Obama is being backed into a corner and at some time before the election Obama will fine a reason to declare Marshal Law then he can go after all the peoples guns and then he would not leave the office for as long as we are in Marshal Law Obama will remain in as our Dictator and if we the people don’t do as we are told then we will be put into one of the FEMA camps like the SS troops did. There they will most likely be killed because I know if we kill our own baby’s I know they would kill troublemakers. Obama is running in fear for he knows he will be impeached if the Republicans and the tea party gets in then he knows he’s history . I and thousands of other gun owners will not let this happen without a fight , They are people training every day to stand up to the ones that try to take our guns and shells . WE WILL FIGHT TO OUR LAST BREATH TO PROTECT OUR FAMILY’S AND OUR NATION . GOD BLESS AMERICIA
Why is it that good people drop dead from brain aneurisms yet scumbag vermin like Obama keep on talking ? Obama has far outlived his usefulness on earth-whatever the hell he has done to benefit Americans we shall never know, but he has no trouble stripping the American soldiers of their raises while sending billions to Muslim countries.
He is setting up for his muslim takeover
Fire this clown.
Where is Lee Harvey Oswald when America needs him Most.?
STICK THAT NOSE UP ANY HIGHER YOU MIGHT JUST DROWN.. BUT NO YOU’D BE DOING THE UNITED STATES A GREAT FAVOR IF YOU DID THAT.