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With America $17.5 Trillion In Debt Obama Calls For Increasing U.S. Contributions To The United Nations By 33%… (While he slashes the military’s…
H/T Weasel Zippers
Via CNS News:
When U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday,the panel will consider a budget request for international organizations that is 33 percent bigger than last year’s, including a 43 percent hike in U.S. contributions to peacekeeping missions.
The administration’s fiscal year 2015 budget request for the U.N. and other organizations is $4.036 billion, up from $3.031 billion in FY2014. For contributions to peacekeeping missions, it is asking for $2.518 billion, up from $1.765 last year.
The $2.518 billion for peacekeeping amounts to 28.36 percent of the U.N.’s total peacekeeping budget. The U.S. also provides 22 percent of the separate U.N. operating budget. The U.N. has 193 member states.
According to Heritage Foundation scholar Brett Schaefer, President Clinton in 1994 signed a law setting a 25 percent cap on U.S. contributions for U.N. peacekeeping, which at the time were running at around 30 percent.
Source: http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/with-america-175-trillion-in-debt-obama-calls-for-increasing-us-contributions-to-the-united-nations-by-33-while-he-slashes-the-militarys-budget
point of order, America is not in debt, the corporation known as the UNITED STATES is in debt!