Deadbeat Nation
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon calls the UN’s largest donor nation a “deadbeat.” 192 member nations, and one nation … ours … pays just under one-quarter of the $5.5 billion tab. Just not fast enough.
I spent the last 10 minutes or so trying to come up with something clever to say about that, but I’ve got nothing.
White House Press Secretary Gibbs calls the choice of words “unfortunate.” Moon, apparently aware that this was a stupid thing to say, issues a statement saying the U.S. “generously supports the work of the U.N., both in assessed and voluntary contributions” and he has “an excellent working relationship with the United States and appreciates the many ways that it supports the United Nations.”
It’s unfortunate all right. OK, I’ve got something. Let’s make it unfortunate for Moon. Maybe he’ll better appreciate the many ways our tax dollars and future debt support his America-bashing, dictator-supporting, faux science-touting, child rape-enabling organization after he has to lay off a few do-nothing employees. Or a lot.
Yeah, I know. I still got nothing. Like any of that’s going to happen.
Surber’s got something. With haunting art, Surber notes Ban Ki Moon is a South Korean with a lot of gall. Deadbeat nation coughed up 36,000 dead and $50 billion so he wouldn’t have to be a commie, plus maintaining a couple divisions’ worth there for the past, what is it, longer than I’ve been alive, 56 years now)
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:02 pm on Thursday, March 12, 2009
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March 13th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
We’ve got the name, let’s get the game. Stop funding the UN altogether.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Well said Jules. Maybe the UN could move their headquarters to Caracas or Havana. I susepct the Delis in those towns arent that great though.
i gave you a shoutout on this one.
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