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| Britain Pulls most UN Funding |
| 2011-05-09 |
| 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 boost—and supporters of that spending, especially the Obama Administration, took a body blow—from 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. children’s aid agency, which got a strong endorsement and a funding increase. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #1 Jeez, I consider UNICEF one of the worst UN agencies. Last time I checked more than 80% of donations went in 'expenses', which means 5 star living for cousins of third world dictators. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2011-05-09 20:42 |