Looks so.
By all means, scrap a biased report written by a kook who somehow keeps showing up on the UN payroll. But then again, who needs ESCWA to begin with?
After all, this agency, comprised of 18 Arab states, contributes little, if any, to humankind. Why, at a cost of $70 million out of the UN’s “regular” budget, keep it — or, for that matter, some other quite costly and unnecessary UN bodies?
The United States pays $5.4 billion, 22 percent, of the annual UN “regular” budget, much more than any other country. Additionally, US taxpayers fork over $8.25 billion for UN peacekeeping (28.5 percent of the total peacekeeping budget). Haley said she’s scrutinizing those budgets, starting with peacekeeping — a target-rich environment with quite a few defunct, redundant or bloated blue-helmet missions around the world. Other UN cuts were detailed in President Trump’s recently announced budget.
The trend is clear: America will significantly reduce its UN contributions and stop handing over blank checks to agencies controlled by US antagonists.
http://nypost.com/...-the-united-nations/
"In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway." T Durden
By all means, scrap a biased report written by a kook who somehow keeps showing up on the UN payroll. But then again, who needs ESCWA to begin with?
After all, this agency, comprised of 18 Arab states, contributes little, if any, to humankind. Why, at a cost of $70 million out of the UN’s “regular” budget, keep it — or, for that matter, some other quite costly and unnecessary UN bodies?
The United States pays $5.4 billion, 22 percent, of the annual UN “regular” budget, much more than any other country. Additionally, US taxpayers fork over $8.25 billion for UN peacekeeping (28.5 percent of the total peacekeeping budget). Haley said she’s scrutinizing those budgets, starting with peacekeeping — a target-rich environment with quite a few defunct, redundant or bloated blue-helmet missions around the world. Other UN cuts were detailed in President Trump’s recently announced budget.
The trend is clear: America will significantly reduce its UN contributions and stop handing over blank checks to agencies controlled by US antagonists.
http://nypost.com/...-the-united-nations/
"In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway." T Durden