United Nations Eyeing Your Family’s Money

WedNEWSday - February 18th, 2009

The World Bank and The UN are making a pitch to raid the bailout funds, under the grand illusion of “preventing 400 million Asians from falling into poverty.”  I’m sure you have no problems with your, your children’s, and your grandchildren’s money being in the hands of the upstanding members of the UN.

Whatever could go wrong?

In the case of the U.N., how about:

• The Iraqi Oil-for-Food scandal that Saddam Hussein used to generate over $10 billion in illegal revenue, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office;
• A huge corruption scandal in which over 40 percent of U.N. procurement for peacekeeping was tainted by fraud;
• Widespread incidents of sexual exploitation and abuse by U.N. personnel in Bosnia, Burundi, Cambodia, Congo, Guinea, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Kosovo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Sudan.

As for the World Bank, this article by Fox News is a damning indictment of how the Bank can be used by unscrupulous politicians to advance their personal interests at the expense of the Bank’s reputation and the hard-earned taxpayer dollars that fund the organization.

This from The Heritage Foundation - February 17th, 2009

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/02/17/the-world-bank-and-the-un-want-a-bailout-too/

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