Hat tip NoThreat2U
Here is something you would not expect to see written about a county with a leader, also called the President, claiming that financial Armageddon awaits, should they fail to expand their debt beyond $14 Trillion. Yet there we are, a scant one day past Barack Obama’s holier than thou speech in which he gave one of his famous tongue lashings to the GOP Leadership. He told us all, like we did not know without his help, valuable as it is, that our problems were serious. He complained that we were trying to politicize the problem by not just acceding to his view of what should be done. He told us in a somewhat sarcastic manner that we should, “Eat our peas.” Then, a friend posted this little gem referenced in the link above.
The U. S. State Department yesterday announced that the Obama Administration has agreed to contribute $4 billion to the United Nations Global Fund to fight AIDs, Tuberculosis, and Malaria from 2011 to 2013.
The $4 billion represents a 38% increase over the previous U.S. commitment to the fund.
This means that over one-third of the money will come from the pockets of US taxpayers.
In addition to the annual gift of $1.33 billion to the Global Fund, President Obama has agreed to provide billions more for UN projects.These allocations are set forth in a 28 page document as follows:
- Funnel $63 billion to the Global Health Initiative during the next six years
- Make $1 billion annually to education programs
- Give $475 million to the Global Agricultural and Food Security Program’
- Provide $800 million from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa. An additional $3.2 billion will be provided by private equity capital sources to these Muslim nations
- Shell out millions more available through USAID for developing tech hubs in Uganda, Kenya, Cameroon, South Africa, and Senegal.
- Dole out $80 million through the Overseas Private Investment Corporation for small to medium enterprises in the Middle East and North Africa.
- Cough up $2.5 billion annually to 90 countries to “strengthen governance and democratic institutions.”
- Make available $30 billion through the Obama’s Climate Change Initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, $100 billion a year will be provided through taxpayer and private resources to deal with the alleged threat of global climate change.
The United States is assessed at 22% of the U.N. regular budget and more than 27% for U.N. the peacekeeping budget. Mr. Obama has requested $516.3 million for the U.N. regular budget and more than $2.182 billion for the peacekeeping budget for 2011.
The United States also provides money to the U.N. through the State Department, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, and other agencies.
Putting aside for the moment the entire argument about the value of the U.N., (we’ll get back to that soon enough,) is this pledge for increasing our funding of this organization by an amount that is no where near the neighborhood of negligible, what a sane leader of a nation on the brink of financial collapse would be doing? An open question for President Obama, or one of his supporters: What is the truth here? Ar we facing the end of our fiscal lives as we have known it, or do we still in fact have money to throw away on an organization which has never fed any hungry children, cured or even treated any disease or affliction anywhere on the planet, or even succeeded in preventing a single hostility anywhere on the globe? I personally do not like being talked to like I am Five years old. I especially do not like to be lectured by the likes of an arrogant, vacuous ass. This man who administered the tongue lashing from the press room in the White House is the least qualified person in any room he enters. He, and his party during their Four years in control have failed to pass a single budget, or even for that matter present one for consideration. When the President’s party controlled the White House and both chambers of the Legislative body, they did not even bother with a budget. The only possible reason to avoid it then was that they feared the political repercussions of their voters should anyone realize what on Earth they were up to. So, Let’s do a little basic math here. Let us pretend for a moment that Barack Obama gets his, “Airplane loophole,” closed. Let us further pretend for the moment that nobody alters their behavior as a result of the new tax. If we went back in time to the birth of Jesus, (apologies to my Christian friends, but I felt a reference point people could identify with was in order,) and instituted this tax with today’s airplane flying jet set, we could have by now covered one half of one year’s Obama shortfall.
We do not have a revenue problem. These piggies should be able to get by on $2.5 Trillion. We have a spending problem, which apparently Obama is clueless about, since he just committed $.1 Trillion per year more to the U.N., all of it by the way, money we do not have.
Now, on to that U.N. discussion. Our Jizya paid to the U.N. represents about a quarter of the Organization’s operating budget. The humanitarian aid stations and hospitals established in the Congo actually became the largest houses of ill repute in the world and served as a jumping off point for thousands of young ladies sold into slavery. The money collected on behalf of UNICEF every year is in fact handed over blindly to Hamas and Fatah and used to build rockets and suicide vests and to fund the intifada. Libya, the place where we had to remove the thuggish dictator due to the generally rotten way he treated his own people was the head of the Human Rights Council. Iran, the place where women are stoned to death if they are caught speaking to a male who is not a family member is the head of the U.N. women’s rights council. Anywhere people are actually suffering at the hands of thuggish despots, you can count on the U.N. to be silent, (Sudan, and Tibet.) Anywhere a society is actually free and open, you can count on U.N. condemnation, (U.S. and Israel.) We should be cutting our funding to the U.N. to a level commensurate with our population, and deduct our rent for prime NYC real estate to boot.
Now, for the next question, has the agenda by cliche worked? During the campaign of 2008, we heard that we needed to address our standing in the world. The rest of the world hated us, or so we were told. Yesterday, I saw a picture on my T.V., which put that nonsense to rest, (for me at least anyhow, and probably for anyone who has at least one functioning brain cell as well.)
The image, is the new President of a brand new country, South Sudan, wearing a cowboy hat to honor George W. Bush. That right there should say it all. A new country formed as the result of someone who was hated by the U.N., in a place that caused much hand ringing and zero action by the same lefties who said they hated us, and the leader of that country gives credit to who, President Bush. Hillary’s reset button did nothing to help bring this about. In his speech, he mentioned President Obama exactly zero times. In Obama’s speech, in which he took credit for the new country, he gave no credit to Bush. Therefore, I believe the image, being worth a thousand words is worth another peek.
So, I guess the score stands at President Bush 50, smart diplomacy 0.
Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Tags: Budget Crisis, United Nations
