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2005-06-18 International-UN-NGOs
Bill to Cut UN Funding Passes House
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Posted by RG 2005-06-18 01:29|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Yea! Hopefully the wepublicans can muster the backbone to pass this thing in the senate.
Posted by mmurray821 2005-06-18 11:43||   2005-06-18 11:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Shall we pass the hat to buy the (R) Senators a few spines?
Posted by DMFD 2005-06-18 12:21||   2005-06-18 12:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Eight former U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations, including Madeleine Albright and Jeane Kirkpatrick, also weighed in, telling lawmakers in a letter that withholding of dues would "create resentment, build animosity and actually strengthen opponents of reform."

OOOOOOOHHH! Horrors! Create animosity. Heavens, we would not like that to happen to us in the UN.

I like what the House did. Hit the UN thugs, bureaucrats, and ne'er do wells where it hurts---in their pocketbooks. If these unelected, unaccountable do-nothing bureaucrats want to play their games, bash the US, and beg for help when they need it, then they can do it on their own nickel or Euro. I hope the Senate grows an exoskeleton and passes it. Congress controls the purse, not the President, though I do not know if this bill would survive a presidental veto. But it is a start. Hats off to the House. Ball is in the Senate's Court.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2005-06-18 17:44||   2005-06-18 17:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm - FOXNEWS reported that the USA gives US$440.0M per annum to the UNO, yet officially the USA pays for 2/5 of the UNO budget of approx US$2.0B, not counting certain Programs. Do the Math.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-06-18 22:51||   2005-06-18 22:51|| Front Page Top

#5 You used 'balls' and 'senate' in the same sentence?
Posted by CrazyFool 2005-06-18 23:57||   2005-06-18 23:57|| Front Page Top

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