UN Sec. Gen.: US Is A “Deadbeat”
WASHINGTON - The White House objected Thursday to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s description of the United States as a “deadbeat” donor to the world body.
Ban used the phrase Wednesday during a private meeting with lawmakers at the Capitol, one day after he met with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Ban’s “word choice was unfortunate,” given that the U.S. is the largest contributor to the United Nations.
The United States pays 22 percent of the organization’s nearly $5 billion operating budget but is perennially late paying its dues.
Asked whether Ban should retract his comment, Gibbs said some recognition by Ban of the U.S. role would be appropriate.
“I think given the contribution that the American taxpayer makes, I do think it would be appropriate to acknowledge that role,” Gibbs told reporters at his daily briefing.
Ban, apparently concerned about his choice of words, issued a statement late Wednesday saying the U.S. “generously supports the work of the U.N., both in assessed and voluntary contributions.” Ban also said he enjoys “an excellent working relationship with the United States and appreciates the many ways that it supports the United Nations.”
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UN out of the USA right now. these do-nothing bastards want to call us a deadbeat even though we allow them a base on our soil only blocks away from ground zero and pay a quarter of the entire budget? we shouldnt keep taking this.
We do need to get Bunky Moomoo out of our country along with the U.N., but it seems the senate is wanting to play ball with them.
This story was on foxnews.com for a little while earlier today (3/12/09), but it’s now buried.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/12/lost-found-senate-moves-ratification-un-treaty/
Senate Moves Toward Ratification of U.N.’s ‘Law of the Sea Treaty’
Scoot
thanks for posting that. i had never heard of this treaty before. cant understand why the US would sign onto it but then again, i cant understand why our government does alot of what they do.
hope it sinks to the bottom
“”The thing is about 150 pages long — meaning there are exactly zero people in the Senate who have read it,” said Groves.”
Exactly. We can’t get our elected representatives to read ’stimulus’ bills, we can’t get them to read the Constitution (which is much shorter than 150 pages, btw), how can we expect someone to read this?
So, in other words, we’re doomed. I’m fit to be tied every time I read about something else the UN has said or done.
Fuck you moon-bat.
Words cannot express how much I hate the UN.
Our tax dollars at work……at work against us. Send the UN Packing if you ask me.
Worthless POS obviously cant read statements.Coming from an asian ass he has a lot of nerve,they are the least giving ethnicity on the planet.
The ArchInfidel’s masterful combination of linguistics and visual imagery pretty much sums it up.
Well said, sir.
I’ve no problem being a dead-beat with the UN. Fuck’em and cut off the money, all of it(with the emphasis on(.)
How many US Military Personnel have died enforcing UN actions? I would say that is payment enough.
The UN can go Fuck Itself.
UN = evil
evil = UN
evil+ UN = US screwed.
The UNgrateful, money-sucking, self-righteous bastards need to be kicked off US soil, and set up in Venezuela or some such place where they have more in common with the commie-socialist government.
If the US cut off all relationship and financial aid, the UN would collapse like a house of cards, and we would be rid of them for good 
Maybe he really just wanted to just call us something like, a nation of cowards, but that one had already been used.
Go home 
First order of business when we take America back from Barry Sotero is to remove the UN from our soil.
It is a shit-stain.
I should say the U.N. is the deadbeat. How many military interventions have they screwed up? How many people suffer because the U.N. lacks the competence to deal with the people scamming the various relief efforts?
Death to every fukin Piece of Shit that works at the UN. If the UN passes the Law of the Sea or the Anti-Blasphamy Rules, Please Pat let this be the call for the Revolution
FUCK THIS GUY!
We keep being told that if we toss all the diplomats/spies out on their asses we would lose prestige and power in the world. I think that if we toss these lunatics, despots, and terror-states out and rename the building, say, Free United Nations or something similar League of Free Nations, whatever, NOT being a part of that would be losing prestige. Switzerland can continue to be a conduit to the scumbags, I don’t care, but it is time to shun rogue states.
As for dingbat there, you are either an idiot or a boldfaced liar, or both. Either way, I don’t believe your “apology”.