How much does the UN cost us?????
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 12:18 pm
this was an eye opener from "Millions of Americans" Website.
Un******* believable.
1.8 BILLION TAX DOLLARS -- $1,800,000,000.00!
That's how much we spend each year in annual dues payments
to the United Nations.
What's worse, there are also the "voluntary payments," which
in some years exceed our dues payments. Between 1992 and
1997, we gave the U.N. an additional $11 BILLION. In total,
we pay an estimated 25 percent of all U.N. expenses.
And what do we get for these tens of billions of dollars?
We provide a platform for nations who despise us! We are
giving a voice to nations that oppose our American values of
democracy, justice, free enterprise, privacy and private
property rights!
In short, your tax dollars are paying for a rag-tag
collection of dictators and socialists to propagandize and
work against our security and economic interests.
What is the thanks that we get for the generations of
Americans who fought in the trenches of France during World
War I and stormed the shores of Normandy, as well as died to
defend freedom in countless other places around the world?
The thanks we got, as we prepared to disarm a dictator who
had invaded his neighbors and murdered thousands of his own
citizens, was blistering criticism, NO votes, and multiple
veto threats!
The U.N. not only won't stand behind their own resolutions,
they fought against having us do that for them!
In addition to spending our tax dollars to thwart American
interests around the world, the United Nations is ripe with
waste, fraud and abuse. Let me give you just three examples
of the massive waste of our tax dollars:
* In Somalia, $369,000 was paid for fuel distribution
services the contractor never provided.
* A project director of the UN Relief and Works Agency,
which helps Palestinian refugees, kept $100,000 of agency
money in his private bank account.
* In Nairobi, a member of the UN Center for Human
Settlements arranged loans worth $98,000 for a company of
which she had been a partner and with whose director she was
"closely associated."
The list goes on and on! By slashing our U.N.
funding, we could improve America's security at home and
abroad, reduce the soaring federal deficit, pay for tax cuts
to stimulate the economy, or wire the funds directly to
Baghdad to pay for the reconstruction of Iraq!
Un******* believable.
1.8 BILLION TAX DOLLARS -- $1,800,000,000.00!
That's how much we spend each year in annual dues payments
to the United Nations.
What's worse, there are also the "voluntary payments," which
in some years exceed our dues payments. Between 1992 and
1997, we gave the U.N. an additional $11 BILLION. In total,
we pay an estimated 25 percent of all U.N. expenses.
And what do we get for these tens of billions of dollars?
We provide a platform for nations who despise us! We are
giving a voice to nations that oppose our American values of
democracy, justice, free enterprise, privacy and private
property rights!
In short, your tax dollars are paying for a rag-tag
collection of dictators and socialists to propagandize and
work against our security and economic interests.
What is the thanks that we get for the generations of
Americans who fought in the trenches of France during World
War I and stormed the shores of Normandy, as well as died to
defend freedom in countless other places around the world?
The thanks we got, as we prepared to disarm a dictator who
had invaded his neighbors and murdered thousands of his own
citizens, was blistering criticism, NO votes, and multiple
veto threats!
The U.N. not only won't stand behind their own resolutions,
they fought against having us do that for them!
In addition to spending our tax dollars to thwart American
interests around the world, the United Nations is ripe with
waste, fraud and abuse. Let me give you just three examples
of the massive waste of our tax dollars:
* In Somalia, $369,000 was paid for fuel distribution
services the contractor never provided.
* A project director of the UN Relief and Works Agency,
which helps Palestinian refugees, kept $100,000 of agency
money in his private bank account.
* In Nairobi, a member of the UN Center for Human
Settlements arranged loans worth $98,000 for a company of
which she had been a partner and with whose director she was
"closely associated."
The list goes on and on! By slashing our U.N.
funding, we could improve America's security at home and
abroad, reduce the soaring federal deficit, pay for tax cuts
to stimulate the economy, or wire the funds directly to
Baghdad to pay for the reconstruction of Iraq!
