COMMENT ON: How Much Discretion? U.N.’s Anti-Poverty Program Wants Unlimited Spending Power

Economic globalization at it’s worst!

Along with it’s other countless reprehensible actions and disgraceful behavior, can we really expect the United Nitwits to handle our (The United States Taxpayers ) moneys correctly.

Beware of this Bipartisan bill:

A nice-sounding bill called the “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations.

The legislation would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the U.S. already spends.”

The bill, called the Global Poverty Act, is the type of legislation, “We can – and must – make … a priority,” said Obama

It would demand that the president develop “and implement” a policy to “cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015 through aid, trade, debt relief” and other programs…

Obama wants us to support the world. I wonder how they intend to eliminate poverty. Most of the money always winds up in some dictator hands and in the U.N. coffers.” Just check out Kofi Annan’s family bank account.

What the U.S. Pays the U.N. Already

US contributions to UN Regular Budget

The United States has the maximum assessed contribution to the UN regular budget — 22%. In 2005 the assessed amount is $439,611,612. The minimum assessed contribution is 0.001%. The scale of assessments for each UN member for the required contributions to the regular budget is determined every 3 years on the basis of Gross National Product (GNP).

Only nine countries (starting with the largest contributor: United States, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Canada, Spain, China) contribute 75% of the entire regular budget. Cuba, which accounts for much of the behavior of the UN Human Rights Commission and its Sub-Commission, contributes .043% of the regular budget. Oil-rich Saudi Arabia contributes .713%.

UN members also make voluntary contributions to UN specialized agencies and subsidiary organizations. The administrative costs of such bodies, though, are met from the regular budget.

In addition to their contributions to the UN regular budget, member states contribute to the peacekeeping operations budget and the cost of international courts and tribunals. The level of these contributions is based on their assessed contributions to the regular budget plus variations which take account of permanent membership on the Security Council.

UN members also make voluntary contributions to UN specialized agencies and subsidiary organizations. The administrative costs of such bodies, though, are met from the regular budget.

U.S. contributions to the UN in 2005 totaled: $5,327,276,000.
(Regular budget, extra budgetary contributions, in-kind contributions)

The fact is that if you just keep throwing people fish, the fish pile up and rot!