How to Save the Federal Gov't $400M

The UN wants to renovate it's buildings, with a price tag of $1.9B. And they want the US to fork over $400M of our hard earned taxpayer's dollars.

The price tag on a long-stalled renovation of the landmark United Nations headquarters has soared to $1.9 billion from the 2002 estimate of $1 billion, when the project was first envisioned, according to new figures released on Thursday.

The U.N. General Assembly's budget committee called for the 192-nation body to adopt a draft resolution setting a budget of $1.878 billion for the project, which if approved would finally get off the ground next year.

The assembly is expected to approve the measure on Friday.

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The money would be raised through increases in the dues paid by all U.N. member nations on a sliding scale. Governments would have a choice of paying their share all at once or in five yearly installments beginning in 2007, the draft says.

That would put the poorest nations' share at a little under $2 million each. The United States, the world's biggest economy which picks up the tab for 22 percent of the regular U.N. budget, would pay over $400 million.

That $400M can be better spent here in the US, rather than renovating a building full of crooks, cowards and Jews Haters. And if the US doesn't dish out the dough, then maybe the UN will have to move somewhere else. It's a win-win situation, we save money and the UN moves, it doesn't get any better than that.


Mr Minority