What a scumbag! Get a job!

AP

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
A day after his White House meeting with President Barack Obama, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the United States a "deadbeat" donor to the world body while making the made the rounds on Capitol Hill.

Ban's criticism Wednesday of the U.N.'s single biggest backer irked some members of the House Foreign Relations Committee. They were generally supportive of his leadership but voiced concern about U.N. efforts in areas from Sudan to Somalia.

"He used the word 'deadbeat' when it came to characterizing the United States. I take great umbrage (over) that," Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the panel's senior Republican, said after an hour-long, closed-door meeting. "We certainly contribute a whole lot of U.S. taxpayer dollars to that organization. We do not deserve such a phrase.

Interviewed after the session, Ban said he had wanted to draw attention to the fact that the U.S. agrees to pay 22 percent of the U.N.'s $4.86 billion operating budget, but is perennially late with its dues -- and now is about $1 billion behind on its payments.

That figure is "soon to be $1.6 billion," Ban emphasized. Asked if he'd used the word 'deadbeat' during the meeting, he replied, "Yes, I did -- I did," then laughed mischievously.

Ban also urged Congress to adopt climate change legislation to boost chances for his top goal this year: clinching a global climate deal. The hope is for accord at a U.N.-sponsored conference in Copenhagen in December.

"I believe for the United States it's a necessity. It will have a very politically important impact on the ongoing negotiation," he said. "We need the U.S. leadership at this time. Whole world is looking at U.S. leadership."

Ban generally got a "very respectful" reception from the House committee, said Rep. Bill Delahunt, D-Mass., who chairs a subcommittee that oversees U.S. participation in the United Nations.

"Clearly they have an interest in the United States meeting its responsibility. In terms of peacekeeping, we're about $670 million behind, and I think the argument is well-stated," Delahunt said.

He noted America backs U.N. peacekeeping operations -- and said it loses credibility if it doesn't provide financial support. "And at the same time, we have to recognize that there are no American troops involved in the 17 different venues where there are peacekeeping operations," Delahunt said.

Ban was also meeting with Sen. John Kerry, D-Calif., the Senate Foreign Relations chairman, and other committee members.

During an Oval Office session Tuesday, Obama pledged to work to help bring peace to Darfur and called it "not acceptable" that Sudan's president has been kicking out humanitarian aid workers from the region of western Sudan. President Omar al-Bashir was charged in an International Criminal Court arrest warrant with war crimes and crimes against humanity for targeting civilians.

Ban told Obama his support for climate legislation is "encouraging", but said 2009 is a "make-or-break" year for the U.N. and its member countries on global warming, Darfur and other prominent conflicts.

"It's the beginning of the establishment of a close relationship between the two," said Peter Yeo, a vice president for the U.N. Foundation, launched by media mogul Ted Turner's $1 billion donation in 1997.

Yeo, a former House Democratic staffer and foreign policy adviser to both the Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigns last year, said Obama's budget proposal also is a hopeful sign for the U.S.-U.N. relationship.

Obama seeks a 9.5 percent increase in international affairs spending, which Yeo said would be enough to cover not only next year's U.S. dues to the U.N., but also $1 billion in arrears.

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Ban also urged Congress to adopt climate change legislation to boost chances for his top goal this year: clinching a global climate deal. The hope is for accord at a U.N.-sponsored conference in Copenhagen in December.

"I believe for the United States it's a necessity. It will have a very politically important impact on the ongoing negotiation," he said. "We need the U.S. leadership at this time. Whole world is looking at U.S. leadership."

Seems like they're getting desperate. Keep pushing us assholes, this deadbeat might rescind all those billions and you might end up being a deadbeat.

I say we close up shop on every korean grocery store with the owners necks slice. Leave a message saying that Ban thinks we are deadbeats. Will his compatriots are now deadmeats. Plus close up shop in south Korea. Fuck them. I will not see one American die for the blue. We don't need another blackhawk down.

i am sure that the well educated members of this board know that the UN is voting on a binding resolution to make blasphemy a crime, yes? As for this guy, define "deadbeat". Swanning around while you neglect your northern border may be a definition.

Fuck the UN.

Oh dear, oh dear. We got to make that up. Since the UN is sitting on some prime real estate, I think it's time to up the rent until our debt is paid off.

If we are giving the UN use of the land and buildings gratis then tough economic times will require us to begin charging rent. So good of that doggie eating Ki-Moon to bring this to our attention. I say we get right on it.

UN should fucking be abolished and its members deported or hanged.

The next thing we know, illegal aliens will be calling us deadbeats for not handing out goodies to them.

192 members of the UN and the US pays 22% of the tab.

And HQ is on a piece of NY real estate worth mega billions.

That's fair.

Lets move the UN headquarters to Zimbabwe. Bet he'd shut the fuck up really quickly.

UN calling ANYONE a "deadbeat" is a fucking joke



HEY UN ASSHOLES! PAY YOUR FUCKING PARKING TICKETS!!!!

This comment, comming from the un, doesnt shock me at all. That's the sad part. What's even sadder is that you will not hear a peep about it on the msm. If the avaerage American heard that comment, as well as the other crap and otrocities that the un commits, we would gain support to close them like they should be closed.

fuck the un... they are as worthless as france.

Get the fuck out of our country then, bitches!

Another buddah wing nut.

Only 1 vote and we pay nearly 1/4th of the dues?

syscom3 wrote:

Only 1 vote and we pay nearly 1/4th of the dues?

Dont forget we get to be thrown under the bus on all occasions, as well as police the world on our dime, get degraded by the likes of lunkhead and other serfs.

The US should stop all foreign aid except to true allies, if any. Stop the policing and protection for a year, then let's see what happens.

FUCK the useless nations ...stop paying them and kick them out of the US now.

Ki Dik Wong Fuk, or whatever his name is, can eat shit. Why we give any money whatsoever to the UN is beyond me. Nobody can sit there and act all sanctimonious while pissing away or embezzling money better than the UN. The UN is even more useless than the damn French. If it were up to me the UN building would be used as a missile test site with everyone in it.

If funding the Useless Nations was put to a vote, the majority of Americans would toss that relic into the Atlantic.

Fuck the UN. Why should we pay any organization that has done nothing for us, except talk shit and make us out as the bad guys?

Ban also urged Congress to adopt climate change legislation to boost chances for his top goal this year: clinching a global climate deal. The hope is for accord at a U.N.-sponsored conference in Copenhagen in December.

Any republican senator who votes for any climate change legislation should be dragged out of his or her house and fed to wild dogs.

Shine on, Banky Moon, we gonna love you long time.

Unilaterally slash our funding for the UN to the average of what the other 5 permanent members of the security council pay (they pay a combined 15% of the budget so you do the math), inform them that it is not our responsibility to clean up every third world shithole, tell them to fuck off and that we do not care to shackle our industries with some ridiculous Gaia worshipping BS about carbon emissions (but other countries are free to commit economic suicide if they wish) and on last thing......GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR COUNTRY. You cocksuckers have 1 month to clear your shit and get out.