Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Your UN dollars

Joe Malchow is a student at Dartmouth and publishes Joe's Dartblog. Today, he has an excellent article on the 1.6 billion dollars that the UN wants to spend to renovate its current buildings. Yes, that's $1,600,000,000 -- of which the United States contributes 25%, or $400 million. And not for new construction, just renovating and updating existing structures.

The article details how Donald Trump testified before the US Senate that the project was grossly bloated - and how the UN is pushing to spend its money on the project. Correction - it's pushing to spend OUR money. Just like "federal funds" are actually our own taxes coming back after a wild night on the town in Washington, DC, UN expenditures are just the levies that they get from member countries.

Read the whole story HERE.

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