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Posted By: RockyTCB, 3/9/2026 8:36:34 AM

The United Nations is having a budget crisis. It might have to lay off part of its staff. No one should be brokenhearted over this. It should instead be cause for celebration. The U.N. is nothing more than a parasite leeching off the American taxpayer while propping up dictators, terrorists, and every left-wing crackpot scheme ever dreamed up. It should be dissolved. Earlier this year, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres “sent a dramatic letter to” member states to warn them “about the ‘imminent financial collapse'” of the organization, says the Global Policy Forum of Europe. “The letter

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Reply 1 - Posted by: felixcat 3/9/2026 8:47:05 AM (No. 2077974)
We don't fight wars today with the equipment and tactics from World Wars 1 and 2. So lets update our approoach to achieving "world peace."
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Reply 2 - Posted by: treecat 3/9/2026 8:50:18 AM (No. 2077976)
Since 1960 i have felt America should withdraw from the un
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 3/9/2026 9:06:04 AM (No. 2077986)
I foresee fancy Trump condos in Turtle Bay.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: padiva 3/9/2026 9:07:37 AM (No. 2077989)
Move the UN to Somalia, Gaza, or Iran.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Strike3 3/9/2026 10:00:23 AM (No. 2078017)
A crisis for some is good news for others. The only benefit that the UN provides is to the prostitutes of New York City. Guterres will not be taking a cut in salary anytime soon.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: laurenc 3/9/2026 10:10:51 AM (No. 2078022)
If the UN totally disappeared one night, would you notice? No, but the media would be screaming at the top of their lungs to make you notice.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 3/9/2026 10:19:49 AM (No. 2078028)
Like the European Union the worst thing about the United Nations is its "staff." They should all be fired except those directly responsible for staging or guarding the circus on Turtle Bay.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: JHHolliday 3/9/2026 10:20:23 AM (No. 2078032)
I have viewed the UN for 40 years as more grifters on the take than actually doing any good. Just the opposite...a smug costly bunch of anti-American and useless bureaucrats. The employees will have to give up their posh sinecures...Broadway tickets, expensive restaurants and apartments. Every perk you can think of. They have leeched off the US for years to the tune of billions, our billions and it's time to end it. Move it and donate only as much as other countries. They have gotten away with this for at least fifty years and now we have a President who sees them for what they are and will not allow them to continue get away with this larceny at US expense...Don " The Hammer" Trump. As someone said, Somalia is nice this time of year the cost of living very attractive.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: JimBob 3/9/2026 10:23:58 AM (No. 2078034)
The UN is not being supported (by the American Taxpayers) in the manner to it's Champaign and Caviar taste? Gee, my Give-A-Dam's Busted!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: cor-vet 3/9/2026 10:27:34 AM (No. 2078035)
I agree with poster #4. And then we'll find out how effective 'diplomatic immunity' really is.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Venturer 3/9/2026 10:42:34 AM (No. 2078054)
The UN was created with great ambitions, but it has turned to a useless and expensive troll.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: mobyclik 3/9/2026 10:57:28 AM (No. 2078068)
If it's bad for America, the leeches at the UN are all for it. GET OUT!
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Reply 13 - Posted by: paral04 3/9/2026 12:26:57 PM (No. 2078104)
Maybe if they UN had done anything useful in the past 70 years there would be more support for them. Where were they in during the 7 day's on Israel in the 60's, Vietnam in the 70's Iran's holding our hostages for 4 years,? And more recently, Russia's invasion or Ukraine and the October invasion of Israel on October 7th? I would hazard a guess that they were "conferring" at some luxury resort drink the finest wine and eating the best food.
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