Defunding The U.N.
January 24, 2011
Investors.com 
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/560753/201101241859/Defunding-The-UN.htm
Accountability: The new GOP Congress is preparing to cut U.S. funding of the United Nations and the latter is hollering. But with the U.N. doing all it can to undercut its top donor, we fail to see why Congress shouldn't cut.
The biggest disconnect of all time must be between the U.N. and the donor that funds nearly half its budget: the U.S.
For two years, the Obama administration has paid obeisance to the U.N., sending it far-left Ambassador Susan Rice and all the funds it's asked for, while heaping it with presidential praise.
As China's leaders make extravagant claims about surpassing the U.S. in economic might, as they did last week, the fact remains China pays about 2.1% of the U.N. budget while the U.S. pays 41%.
What the U.S. gets in return for the billions it pays is an ever-more bloated, corrupt, insolent bureaucracy carrying on as it always has, stuck in an entitlement mentality.
To add insult to injury, U.N. agencies, like the Human Rights Council, led by top human rights violators such as Cuba and Libya, have stepped up attacks on U.S. allies such as Israel to cut the U.S. down a peg. They know enough about the wrath of the U.S. taxpayer to not go after the U.S. directly, so Israel makes a convenient proxy.
Now with a new Congress in Washington, the gravy train is about to end. House Republicans, led by Foreign Affairs Committee chair Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, want the U.S. to withhold some of its funding, including 82% of the operating budget. Ros-Lehtinen will hold hearings Tuesday about why the White House hasn't removed the kick me sign from Uncle Sam's back.
The majority of our members are on board to reform the corrupt and mismanaged U.N. and get a much better return for our dollars, the Florida Republican told the Washington Times, calling the U.N. a monster and a beast.
U.N. chief Ban Ki Moon is scrambling to meet the congresswoman and show all the reforms he's done and lay the claim that the U.S. owes the U.N. It's absurd. The U.S. owes this group nothing, because it's a sovereign state. As the one member doing all the heavy lifting, it has a right to insist on results for all the cash it doles out.
In holding the hearing, Ros-Lehtinen is doing the work Congress is obliged by law to do, and the work the taxpayers sent her to do.
Her committee can't explicitly target the hideous Human Rights Council, which has targeted Israel in 35 of its 45 passed resolutions, but it can still send a statement by cutting from the broader budget. If it doesn't, it makes the U.S. as complicit in the problem as the lunatics running the asylum over at Turtle Bay