UN Requests an Additional $1.1 Billion for Expenses...
What do we get for our money? A human rights council with countries like Libya and Cuba on it, a rabidly anti-Israeli bias, a toothless peacekeeping force, a pro-Islam agenda. I could go on but we are all aware of what a pathetic joke the UN is....
Despite long-standing efforts by successive U.S. administrations to rein in U.N. spending, the United Nations this month presented its top donors with a request for nearly $1.1 billion in additional funds over the next two years — boosting current U.N. expenses by 25 percent and marking the global body’s highest-ever administrative budget, according to internal U.N. memos.
U.N. administrative costs have more than doubled, to about $2.5 billion a year, since Bush took office, while peacekeeping expenses have increased threefold, with nearly 110,000 peacekeepers in 20 overseas missions at a 2008 cost of about $7 billion.
“This is a breakdown of a 20-year-long effort to rein in U.N. spending,” said John R. Bolton, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations early in Bush’s second term. “What happened in the late part of the Clinton administration, but most spectacularly in the Bush administration, is that the principle of zero nominal growth broke down completely.”
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