Foreign aid money spent on UN ceiling art

United States
November 18, 2008 5:46pm CST
Yep you heard me right. The UN human rights council spent 23 million dollars to get a fancy mural on their ceiling. THey spent money that should have gone to foreign aid on it ,well about $600,000.00 dollars of it did. The rest was paid for Spain's taxpayers. WHy are we giving the UN money. They just waste it. I mean really, that money was suppost to go to starving people and people displaced due to war. Not to make their ceiling look good. Anyone else outraged by this? If you want the full story you can read it here http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,454191,00.html What should be done about it?
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@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
18 Nov 08
What should be done?The same thing I have been lobbying to get done for a while. Pull our membership, our military support, or financial support, aresst any U.N. dignitary that has commited a crime on our soil and gotten off on diplomatic imunity, callin all parking tickets acrued by the same stupid law and toss the useless, holier-than-thou bums off our soil and turn the U.N. building in to a apartment center for displaced families put out by the housing crunch. Sounds simple to me, but what do I know, I'm just some right wing conservative extremist who voted for a right wing extremist conservative candidate who would have done all that.
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• United States
19 Nov 08
The more I see of our elected officials and the UN the more I think you have to lack common sense, have no conscience, and be a corrupt crook to get there. I agree, we need to pull out of the UN and kick them out.
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• United States
19 Nov 08
This is just disgusting! And to make it worse -- take a look at that art!! A monkey could have spray painted the ceiling multi colored, and even got the stalagmites or -tites whichever they are!!! I'm sick of this all -- I can allow for some festivities by our leaders, but I'm sick of the extravagance, and wastefulness while people are starving in the US and overseas. The cost of that election night celebration, the cost of the inaugural ball which I had heard was going to be enormous, altho now everything is silent about that, this UN ceiling, the UN building in NY that someone here just mentioned. It's just too much, on top of all the suffering in the world -- and socialism, which seems to spread the wealth of everyone BUT the leaders and their friends. The UN is useless. It's a pretty idea that has no place in the world at this point. I wanted us out of it years ago, and I still want us out of it!
• United States
20 Nov 08
I agree completely. We need to pull out the UN and then kick them out of the country.
@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
18 Nov 08
OMG that is a crime, unfortunately this is the sort of thing that has made me stop giving to large charities, I resent giving to charities when they are paying high wages to the the staff and collectors, once upon a time people volunteered to do the jobs that today they get big wages for, so I give only to charities mainly animals socities these days that are run by volunteers...this sort of thing is disgusting while people out there are starving.
• United States
18 Nov 08
I think we stop aid to the UN until they clean their act up.
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@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
19 Nov 08
Good grief when are we going to wake up and realize that we need to drop out of the U.N. Now if the nuts in Spain want to keep funding these non sense then let them. I am sick and tired of hearing stories like this how the U.N is spend our taxpayer money.
• United States
20 Nov 08
I know what you mean. I am sick the UN too. When was the last time they actually accomplished anything good?