Many of the GOP House members and a few of the GOP Senators are no friend to the United Nations. The reasons for this are myriad and range anywhere from the unconscionable amount of money that the United States contributes to the overall UN budget of $8B a year to its clearly anti-Semitic views and actions. But make no mistake: there are many supporters in our government, both high-ranking Democrats and Republicans, who would rather push back against any and all cuts to the 193-nation body headquartered in New York City.
The sickening facts surrounding the United Nations’ ability to play up to a very compliant Leftist media when it comes to funding are almost too much to bear without losing your dinner. Business Insider, an avid and constant cheerleader for the United Nations, was keen to note that the all of the funding that the United States provides is actually a really good deal!
But when it comes to UN programs — UN peacekeeping in particular — the US already gets a pretty good deal.
US funding for the UN and its agencies adds up to a little over $4.5 billion a year — the cost of about two B-1 bombers — according to an analysis by the Center for Global Development.
US government estimates have also found that relying on UN peacekeepers is beneficial to the American taxpayer.
In Haiti in 2004, a coup prompted the US to deploy military forces to avert a potential refugee crisis. After the initial intervention, the Bush administration convinced the UN to field peacekeepers.
“We estimate that it would cost the United States about twice as much as the United Nations (UN) to conduct a peacekeeping operation similar to the current UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti,” which was called Minustah, the Government Accountability Office wrote in a 2006 report.
Yes, but what else did those “savings” to the U.S. budget get us? Or rather, what did they get Haiti?
Glad you asked!
UN aid workers from Nepal were identified as the source of a cholera outbreak which killed over 10,000 Haitians and sickened hundreds of thousands more. Yet the UN claimed diplomatic immunity and refused to provide compensation.
Wow! Now that’s the kind of quality that money just can’t buy! And in this case, it didn’t!
And now, the United Nations Chief is threatening the United States with the forfeiture of its vote in the General Assembly if it cuts its funding to a point where it is detrimental to the body. Read more about the White House reply to the UN over its threats on the following page.
Very well said, my sentiments on point, thank you sir.
So funny, its exactly why we need out. If we don’t do what they want; which is to be discriminatory, racist, undemocratic, muslim majority butt kissers, and a UN ATM; then they want to kick US out because we don’t grovel. As the song goes DREAM ON….
We agree get rid of UN,and get them out the USA
Bye now we dont need you
Expulsion? I hope that$#%&!@*has a site for the UN headquarters picked out
Stop all funding for the u.n. . Stop and remove all refugees, deport all illegal aliens. Stop foreign aid . And stop fighting in was created by other countries.
Then you won’t get any of our money. We should sue the UN for all the money we already paid and kick them off our soil.
Expel us and our billions? Not likely.
Why not expell the U.N. nothing worthwhile has come out of there for years except poluting New York City with a bunch of frigging Liberal Retards.
They are so concerned about cuts starving women and children?
Where’s their concern for the abuses and rapes committed against those same women and children by the “UN Peacekeepers” themselves? The drug and human and sex trafficking rings they engage in and turn a blind eye to?
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2017-06-09/un-peacekeepers-sexual-assault-problem.
Any charges against a US military personnel is treated seriously and Officers have even been discharged for trying to prevent abuse by others.
Yet all the UN does is pound they fit and tell the worse abusing countries they must stop. It’s not even a slap on the wrist. Why should we fund an organization that spreads diseases, rape and abuse?
Last year the UN’s answer to reduce these abuses was to have countries deploy more female Peacekeepers. But the countries who commit the worse crimals won’t comply.
I don’t want one penny of my tax money given to anything that is far from “peacekeepers”.