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
Let me GUESS… UP HIS NOSE?????
well what a $#%&!@*ing Traitor ! you whom voted for this ? well if you were doing it to Elect a black man or trying to fit in or just didn’t down right think , Congratulations HERE”S YOUR SIGN !
$#%&!@* the UN, they’ve been leaching from the US long enough. That 33% more tax dollars should be spent on US citizens on US soil. People who need additional unemployment benefits, schools ( not that Common Core bull$#%&!@*, another UN goat $#%&!@*) veterans benefits including their family members. I am personally really pissed that the self appointed despot sitting in the White House pisses away tax payers dollars on his warped list of important projects.
Will some one take the SOB check book from this moron/
Cut him off!!
NO!! When will we STOP THIS INSANITY ??
More money to send he baby momma on vacation .
Japan is killing us, silently & slowly..no media mention, no fanfare..FEMA coffin stockpiles are beginning to make sense to me..they unobtrusively are on stand by, and I believe within the next 3 yrs. Cancer cases will sky rocket & fill them, the deaths will be so numerous, with diseases accompanying the Cancer onslaught!..Obamacare will not ever be able to cover the healthcare costs for those who will seek treatment for radiation poisoning ,immunity diseases, to full blown Cancer. But the elite will prosper nicely on all the premiums demanded from us the enslaved. Extracting that last dollar from the dead & dying. Sorry if I sound so full of gloom & doom. But i’m calling it as I see it..
congress should be able to over-ride him