Nikki Haley ‘taking names’ at the UN
Fox News reports former South Carolina Governor and current American Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley warned when she took the office she’d be “taking names” of countries that do not have “our back.” Now, a recently released State Department report on voting records at the UN tells her who exactly are America’s friends and foes.
The report revealed that U.N. members voted with the United States only 31 percent of the time last year– down 10 percent from last year. Haley stated this is not an “acceptable return” on the United States’ investment and suggested this could factor in future foreign aid decisions.
Haley emphasized that U.S. taxpayers pay for 22 percent of the U.N. budget – more, she said, than the next three highest donor nations combined. Haley noted that the U.S. cares more about “being right than popular and are once again standing up for our interests and values” but said:
“Either way, this is not an acceptable return on our investment. When we arrived at the UN last year, we said we would be taking names, and this list of voting records speaks for itself. President Trump wants to ensure that our foreign assistance dollars – the most generous in the world – always serve American interests, and we look forward to helping him see that the American people are no longer taken for granted.”
According to the report, the country that voted least with the U.S. was Zimbabwe – having voted zero times with America. According to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) foreign aid explorer website, Zimbabwe received $58 million in aid for this year.
Rounding out the bottom 10 nations not aligned with the U.S. were: Burundi, which received $2.9 million in U.S. aid; Iran (no U.S. aid); Syria ($72 million); Venezuela ($230,000); North Korea (no U.S. aid); Turkmenistan ($200,000); Cuba ($115,000); Bolivia ($115,000); and South Africa ($100 million). All figures are from the USAID explorer website.
According to the report, the country that voted most with the United States in the U.N. General Assembly was Israel. The other nine on the top 10 list were U.S. allies Micronesia, Canada, Marshall Islands, Australia, United Kingdom, France, Palau, Ukraine and the Czech Republic.
Martin Edwards, a professor at Seton Hall University’s School of Diplomacy and International Relations in New Jersey, told Fox News that the report provided a “nice grandstanding tactic” for Haley but said it raised more questions than answers.
“It’s unclear what this will mean for current foreign aid recipients — are we really going to give less humanitarian aid to South Sudan? How does that advance our interests?” he said.”
Well Martin, other than enriching corrupt bureaucrats, exactly what are our interests in South Sudan, and why should we provide them, or any of the other’s on the hit list, with hard earned American tax dollars?
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Hmm, a little quick math shows me that we could save about $235 million pretty damn quick!
That’s an awful lot of our money thrown at other people’s problems for zero benefit. As a taxpayer, I’m pissed.
Iran no aid? MY ASS! obozo the freaking perverted muslim gave them what 150 billion in cash?
Cut foreign aid for 1 year we’d have 2 walls funded. Let’s do it.
Because we need a wall along the Canadian border too! Yeah! The Canadians treat us very poorly.
Hey, given how Trudeau is kissing up to the muzzies, I don’t think that bad idea at all, especially a Border Wall with Quebec!
Whiskey 2, sarcasm is not your strong suit. Go back to your pink cave and watch another season of Madam Hitlary.
And yes, all our borders should be fenced. Good fences keep good friendships.
What a man you are. Thanks for putting me in my place. I am so ashamed. You yappy little lap dog.
Glass houses
As a matter of fact, W2, just a few days ago the Trudeau government was crying about the number of foreigners who enter the US on tourist visas, then walk across our northern border and claim refugee status in Canada, which per Canadian law means they can’t be deported without a court hearing and investigation. Those courts are backed up an estimated four years.
I listen to NPR — just to know what the enemy are thinking. (^_^)
According to the news a couple of days ago, a large number of the illegal immigrants coming from the US are Haitians who just lost their Temporary Protective Status.
But Canada needs them. According to a Quebecois business owner, they lack low-skilled workers due to Canada’s immigration policy which places emphasis on higher education & commerce (great policy). They are crying for broom-pushers, dish washers, etc.
At least the Haitians speak “Quebecois.”
They probably didn’t mention the part where Canada’s laws evidently mandate free housing from the Canadian government for alleged refugees awaiting their hearing, and that little welfare program is rapidly bleeding both their central and provincial governments dry, hence the wailing and gnashing of teeth.
NO ,cut it completely, permanently and start with the thieving U.N.! imho
I work in a place with a large and growing USAID presence (Burma). All of the USAID work is done by beltway contractors. 60-80% of the money never leaves the US, as it’s eaten up in overhead. Of the remaining money that arrives in Burma, 80% off the top goes into contractors’ overhead: housing, cars, salaries, etc. USAID contractors in Burma live pretty well, much better than private sector businessmen (like me) can afford to live.
So not very much of what looks like a lot of money actually makes it into no-shit projects for the people it’s supposed to benefit. You can sort of excuse them for not giving a shit about anything Nikki Haley has to say when in many countries it’s actually China that’s stepping in and doing worthwhile projects. (Here, China really is doing a lot, as are Japan and Korea).
Most, if not all of the USAID projects in this country are stuff the locals don’t want, don’t need, and did not ask for. If USAID dried up and blew away, nobody would miss them much.
Might as well keep the money here then.
In other words, foreign “aid” is much like domestic “welfare?” Most of it goes to bureaucrats with relatively little of it benefitting those who it is supposed to help?
Are you saying USAID is sort of like a money laundering scheme for the deep state?
Closer to an indirect bribe.
And how much of the “throughput,” if you will, goes to the actual project as opposed to simply lining some bureaucrat’s pocket in the recipient country? Yet another reason to call off this bullshit.
Well said all. Having done 7 or 8 HUMROs (humanitarian relief ops), mostly sub-Saharan Africa while on A/D I agree. USAID is a self-licking icecream cone. Saw more relief supplies going directly to the black market than to those in need. Because State Dept was in charge of all these it was easy to let USAID have the stick and they didn’t want to get their hands dirty. The times we could really make a difference was when the joint/combined militaries would get together “off the scope” and actually get things done
and then again, friend martin, you might also note that many of the nations on the list and receiving aid…..are also state actors and sponsors of actors against the US. in other words, they are attacking us after eating the food that we provide them. why in the blue fuck would I want to continue supporting that?
I say bring about a Pax Americana. one bushel of wheat for one barrel of oil. or whatever other commodity we seek; we need these things far less than they need the food or aid. and adopt the Roman view of immediate and painful destruction to those who would attack us.
I have no patience for those that would bite the hand that feeds.
NIKKI HALEY for President in 2028! That and SCREW the United Nothing, it has to be THE most corrupt entity in recent human history!
API,
I would argue that based on recent events, the US Deep State (FBI, DoiJ, State Dept, et al) are more corrupt than the United Nothing.
I respectfully disagree and say that they run a close second to the United Nothing when it comes to corruption.
If one measures corruption is terms of dollars misappropriated, it has to be the UN. Take the measure other ways and the UN may not even rate, compared to the Depts of Justice and State. I think we can agree all of those houses stink to high heaven and need a good cleaning.
Absolutely and Amen to that!
Amen. Many of us here in SC would vote for her with no hesitation.
The 72 million to Syria caught my eye. How does the money, in food and medical supplies get to those who need it? The estimate is that about 75% doesn’t! Makes sense. Why would a gov’t want to help those who would bring it down? It wouldn’t. ‘Here. Have some food. Take this medicine. This way, when you are feeling better, you can try and kill me.’
Maybe that’s the price of all the bombs we dropped last year?
One raid, maybe.
Tomahawks are expensive.
The Block IV BGM-109 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles are $1.87M a pop.
Have to ask why we HAVEN’T been doing this for the last 60+ years. How much money have we poured down the foreign aid rathole doing things like building mosques in countries who send people to attack us?
How much of that money gets skimmed off into the pockets of corrupt politicians and bureaucrats?
I believe what we do now was a stepchild of the post-WWII Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe. It just went from that, to this current mess.
If we cut the purse strings, and stop bumping up the UN’s tenancy on that plot of land, what would happen then?
Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations was not successful. This has been a costly experiment in “world view governance” and I use that term very loosely.
This is like watching squabbling siblings quarrel with each other over who gets the most cookies from the cookie jar.
It’s also reminiscent of how I used to bake gingerbread or a batch of icebox cookies. I’d get one piece of gingerbread or two cookies, and my sister would come out of her bedroom and eat the rest of it. Nothing left for dessert. She weighed 180 pounds by the time she was in the 8th grade.
After a while, I got smart and stopped making those treats.
What this list says is the top 10 countries that vote with our interests don’t need our help. So we’re sending money places to make friends and it doesn’t work. I’ve long said it’s condescending and breeds resentment.
Sounds a lot like our welfare system.
I believe there’s a VA health clinic in the South Pacific that needs a real overhaul. If vets there can’t get adequate medical services, they have to go to Hawaii, and the Arny base is not going to accept plain oild VA ID cards any more by October this year.
Some of that money that goes to places that don’t like us (Syria?) could be put to better use, could it not?
Let’s be honest. The biggest threat to the USA is not foreign aid to dipshit dictators in batshit crazy countries.
It is the $2.8 Trillion paid out domestically–two thirds of which is SS and Medicare.
For those who don’t know, more than half of all SS dollars go to those who never paid a dime into the system. That will grow over the next 20 years as the welfare demographic begins to reach age 67.
The estimated total obligation is higher than $270 Trillion and by 2050 these obligations will exceed the GDP of the US annually.
At that point it won’t matter what Burundi does will it?
Big brother social programs are the real challenge to national security. It poses an existential threat to all of our futures.
Yeah, okay, I paid into that system my whole working life and I want my effing money back. Got that? So I don’t give a flying fart in space if you think it’s a ripoff. It’s my fucking money and I want it back, as do the rest of the people who’ve been paying into it since it was started in the Depression.
Tell me: would you rather have Al Capone’s soup kitchens, which led to his underworld gambit called organized crime?
You have missed the point. Starting in 2050, no one is getting anything. At all. Ever.
Those who are younger must be told the truth. Promises were made that cannot be realized.
What cannot be paid, will not be paid.
Those of us who paid in all of our adult lives but are not old enough yet might see reduced benefits, but those who never paid in at all must be told the cold, hard truth.
And that truth is that the politicos made promises to get votes they never intended to keep.
Under the current system, all that can be done is kick the can a few years. Maybe to 2057…but not likely.
I may not be around in 2057, but my kids and grandkids will be. I don’t want an economic collapse because we could not figure out how to tell the truth.
No, I didn’t miss the point. The spending on wasteful stuff has to be curbed. The US commitment to the UN is one of those wasteful things. It hasn’t kept the squabbling down, hasn’t stopped anyone who wants to ‘rule the world’ from becoming a dictator (see Venezuela for reference) and hasn’t really brought world peace, has it? If Congress had not been allowed to raid the Social Security trust fund in the first place, you wouldn’t be griping about what may or may not happen. Since the people who pay the least into it are at the top of the economic ladder and get out of it by paying ordinary income tax (20%), instead of earned income tax (usually 32%, including SS/Medicare) – huge difference – they don’t contribute one cent to it, either. There’s your economic slacker. Change that – might not solve the problem but also might make a difference. State pensions in some states are offset by the amount of SSRI received when a state employee (civil service) retires. That should happen in all states and at all levels, including the civil service/federal level, which is the biggest money pit on the planet. Not saying there is a perfect solution, because there isn’t. But if, as you say, there will be zero cash in the cash drawer, then what is the justification in collecting a tax from people who will not benefit from it later? That has to be addressed NOW, not when someone facing re-election wants more votes. An answer to the depletion of the SS Trust Fund is to raise the taxable level of earned income above the current $118,500. If ALL earned income is taxed, it WILL increase the cash flow dramatically. That means that people like Mark Zuckerberg would be taking home somewhat less pay, but the remainder of the population will benefit, so who cares if he can’t buy that red Tesla roadster he was eyeballing? This is CNBC’s take on it. https://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/13/social-securitys-next-80-years.html You also have to remember that a lot of “migrants” come here, work a taxable jobs, pay into… Read more »
“hard earned American tax dollars” – make that confiscated American tax dollars. If Americans feel there are valuable interests in South Sudan, then they can give directly. Government confiscation of our earnings that are then gifted to a foreign country is NOT what the founders had in mind when they gave Congress the power to raise taxes.
I’d hit it.
Of *course* you would.
I’d move to South Carolina just to vote for her, WITH MY DICK!
Vote early and vote often!
That’s so inappropriate.
I’m just saying that I’d stand up and support her, is all.
I’m saying I’d knock the bottom out of her pelvic floor floor.
Then I’d do a surgical repair and knock it out yet again.
She’s so hot, I’d let her wipe off on my curtains when she was done.
I second that emotion.
You’d stand up and support her, you mean with “‘Ol Red”?
Jonn,
PleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOh
CAN WE HAVE A “Funny” Button?!?!?!?!?!
Ambassador Haley is married to an Army captain, now in the SC Nat’l Guard. They have been married since 1996 and have two children. I can appreciate the fantasies but sometimes it’s best to leave them unexpressed. Love, Dad.
Three way!
You WILL eat every lima bean on your plate and you WILL watch as your sister eats your ice cream.
only if she puts the ice cream in a cone….I can watch that all day
Thank God Micronesia is on our side!
On another note, I say we support Israel, Canada, Marshall Islands, Australia, United Kingdom, France, Palau, Ukraine and the Czech Republic. But no financial aid, just military.
Emphasis on Israel.
Because the UK and France has fucked up itself becoming Muslim annexes. Ukraine, Czech Republic need help to keep the Russians from re-claiming their republics.
I doubt much of our 22% contribution goes to where it’s supposed to.
Drop the UN and evict their sorry useless ass from our soil.
The rest of those countries can star a GoFundMe campaign.
I’m all for that. I heard that Micronesia is a beautiful island but the Country is SO small their Olympic Swim Team has to use the kiddie pool!
Turn the UN into low-rent housing, maybe?
Let President Trump get ahold of their HQ after he leaves Office on January 20, 2025 and let HIM redevelop it into something profitable and productive!
As dad used to say ‘time to kick ass and take names’
Long overdo IMO.
The UN has been worthless since it began. It has not shown any reason since why we should keep sinking $$$$ into it.