by Tina Grazier
HR 2829
The UN has been a sink hole for American dollars for decades. This once noble body is now seen to be rife with corruption, fraud and waste causing many people in the US to support either removing the UN from our shores or defunding the organization… or both. Now a representative in Congress has stepped forward and introduced a bill to discourage corrupt practices and encourage reform. A new bill, The United Nations Transparency, Accountability, and Reform Act of 2011, has been introduced in the House by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. The bill would tie financial support, making it voluntary, to UN performance. If passed, Congress will have the ability to withdraw funding from specific UN programs when it’s found that they fail to uphold the values and ideals of the UN Charter, are found to be corrupt, or are seen as acting in ways that are detrimental or harmful to member states.
The corrupt UN Oil for Food program, exposed in 2004, is an example that demonstrates the necessity for this legislation. Every year American tax dollars are given to support the UN, a body that has increasingly become a political machine for social and environmental change more than a international forum for resolving disputes as was originally intended.
One specific area of concern is the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), a program designed to give aid to Palestinian refugees. In practice it has too often become a funding source for terrorist activities. Another troubling area of concern is The Durban Process. This yearly conference is nothing more than a festival of racism and bigotry with a heavy dose of anti-American, anti-Israel, and anti-freedom rhetoric.
Resistance to the bill is expected from the President and Senate but the need for reform, not to mention the need to better manage US dollars, is a subject worthy of consideration and debate. The United States should insist on full disclosure for how the funds we donate are used. We should not be co-conspirators in internationally corrupt dealings. And we should withdraw funding from United Nations programs if we find them to be corrupt or in conflict with the purpose of the UN Charter. If other participants fail to correct irresponsible and shady dealings we should perhaps consider withdrawing our support all together.
How about a bill that gets the US out of that POS organization.
Good question, Toby. I have a feeling that this is a first step in that direction. It has become an arm of one world, socialist, pols and thugs. If it fails to return to its charter there is no reason for us to be party to its impositions and criminal activities.
I think we’ve been sold out repeatedly by the UN, its worked against us for decades. It’s about time our billions upon billions in funding means something.
Since the UN has become little more than a hideously corrupt and ridiculous dictator’s club, why not let the dictator’s fund it?
Move it to Syria.
No, seriously, we should not disengage, just stop being the principle funding source of this international offal. When the bucks dry up, just watch how fast things change at the UN.
I just saw a head stating The UN has credible evidence Iran is building nuclear weapons. Isn’t how the whole WMD thing started in Iraq? The UN said it, the Clinton administration fully agreed with it but didn’t act, they just kicked it down the road. So my question is, what should we the USA do about it? We should have nuked Iran in the 70’s and this would be over. So what to do now? I figure Obama will just ignore it like he did his DUI, illegal alien uncle. Do you really see Mr POS prize winner doing anything?
WHY NOT SEND THE UN TO IRAQ? IRAN? AFGHANISTAN? HOW ABOUT SOMALIA?
These are ALL GREAT PRO-AMERICAN countries, right?
When John Bolton was there he was making a little progress in uncoveing the fraud and putting a lid on efforts to beat up the US and Israel. Someone like him as our UN Ambassador and serious defunding might do some good. The Islamists and Marxists are bent on becoming the big dogs in the world. I wouldn’t care except for that one little thing…tyranny…I kinda have an aversion to that.