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| Rubio: It May Be Time to Defund the United Nations |
| 2017-12-28 |
| [Conservative Free Press] Sen. Marco Rubio hasn’t always been the most steadfast supporter of the Trump administration, but he ‐ like many Republicans ‐ was distressed by what he witnessed on Thursday when the United Nations General Assembly voted 128-9 to condemn the U.S. for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. In a tweet following that disgraceful vote, the Florida senator said it might be time for America to seriously think about pulling its investments out of the increasingly-hostile international organization. "Given its tendency to be a forum for anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism, reevaluation of US role as single largest donor to #UN is long overdue," wrote Rubio. President Donald Trump and Ambassador Nikki Haley have also said that the vote will weigh heavily when it comes to America’s relationship with member countries, to say nothing of the organization as a whole. "They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us," Trump said Wednesday. "Well, we’re watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We don’t care." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 Eliminate diplomatic immunity for the representatives to the UN. They aren't accredited to the US government. It's like giving diplomatic immunity to representatives to any trade group or industry regulatory body. That would shake up the group quickly but technically not hinder their deliberations. And think of the parking ticket revenues |
| Posted by: Blossom Hupager6063 2017-12-28 19:53 |
| #9 Rome wasn't built in a Day but the League of Nations disappeared about that quickly. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-12-28 17:07 |
| #8 When Lil Marco hired the known dirty tricks smearers at Fusion GPS, I stopped caring about anything turtle boy says. Here I think he's just jumping on the bandwagon. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2017-12-28 16:07 |
| #7 Send in the forensic accountants and expose just how deep the corruption has spread through the UN. Then slash our contributions by that amount. Every time that we threaten to do this the screams rise to the sky. |
| Posted by: magpie 2017-12-28 13:00 |
| #6 Rome wasn't built in a day and the UN won't be deconstructed in one either. It will die a slow, thousand cut death. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-12-28 09:14 |
| #5 Take Trump seriously not literally. I fully expect, now, that he will follow through on this just not quite as fast as we may like. E.G. the tax cut got done. UN funding has been trimmed but given the obstructionism of the "Never Trump" contingent it will all take some time. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-12-28 08:23 |
| #4 Defund? I want a Refund! |
| Posted by: Airandee 2017-12-28 07:00 |
| #3 While Jeff Sessions does absolutely nothing to bring Hillary Clinton (and even Obama, but we'll settle for Clinton...for now) to justice, here is more blah-blah-blah from the administration. True enough, the UN is a joke, but the empty words get tiresome. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2017-12-28 03:05 |
| #2 Better late than never. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-12-28 02:27 |
| #1 It's well past time to defend that cesspool. |
| Posted by: Chris 2017-12-28 01:28 |