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Britain Pulls most UN Funding
F*ckin' A! I guess that since the British did it, Obama will ask to make up the difference?Critics of U.S. spending on the United Nations got a huge boostand supporters of that spending, especially the Obama Administration, took a body blowfrom an unlikely source this week: the British government, long one of the U.N.s staunchest supporters. sometimes the host wakes up to the parasite In a sweeping and hard-nosed reorganization of priorities for its $10.6 billion multilateral foreign aid program, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron has pulled the financial plug entirely on four U.N. agencies at the end of next year, put three others judged merely adequate on notice that they could face the same fate unless they improve their performance as a matter of absolute urgency; and issued pointed criticisms of almost all the rest. "time's up, get your own five-star lunches, bitches" The major exception: UNICEF, the U.N. childrens aid agency, which got a strong endorsement and a funding increase. Posted by: Frank G 2011-05-09 |
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