Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Tyrants and dictators, shady international arms dealers, brutal leaders of broken, basket case nations like President for Life Robert Mugabe, will be celebrating today; President Obama just transferred $500 million of US Taxpayer’s money into the new UN Climate Fund.
According to The Guardian;
Obama administration pays out $500m to climate change project
The first chunk of a $3bn commitment made at the Paris climate talks ‘shows the US stands squarely behind climate commitments’, the State Department said
The Obama administration has made a first installment on its $3bn pledge to help poor countries fight climate change – defying Republican opposition to the president’s environmental plan.
The $500m payment to the Green Climate Fund was seen as critical to shoring up international confidence in Barack Obama’s ability to deliver on the pledges made at the United Nations’ climate change conference in Paris in late 2015.
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Administration officials said the initial $500m payment to the Green Climate Fund demonstrated that Obama would follow through on the promises of last December’s Paris climate agreement – despite February’s setback at the supreme court and threats by Republican presidential candidates to dismantle Obama’s agenda.
“Today, the United States provided a $500m grant to the Green Climate Fund,” a state department official said. “This grant is the first step toward meeting the president’s commitment of $3bn to the GCF, and shows that the United States stands squarely behind our international climate commitments.”
$500 million is only a drop in the ocean, compared to the FY 2016 $22 trillion total US public debt. However, given the severe and rapidly worsening state of US government finances, a more productive use of the President’s remaining time in office, might be to find ways to cut expenditure, instead of thinking up new ways to give federal money away to people who hate America.
UPDATE by Anthony: Uh, oh.
State Dept defiant on $500M to UN climate fund: ‘Did Congress authorize the Green Climate Fund? No.’
Asked by Senator Cory Gardner if Congress approved the US State Department to divert $500 million to the United Nation’s Green Climate Fund, Deputy Secretary Heather Higgenbottom says: “Did Congress authorize the Green Climate Fund? No. […] We’ve reviewed the authority and the process under which we can do it, and our lawyers and we have determined that we have the ability to do it, and I pledge to you and to other members we’d be happy to provide that legal analysis and the additional details.”
Senate Foreign Relations Committee March 8, 2016
Like I said at the beginning of the Obama Administration, Putin and China would be falling over themselves playing Obama like a fiddle. Examples that played out to date include Crimea seizure by Putin, militarized island building by China, and the Iranian agreement to do whatever they want. I would be worried if my national security depended on alliance with the U.S. for anything.
I heard a while back that 900 bridges need replacing in the US, in the next ten years. These Green slush funds could have made a start on that, but it looks like Obama does not mind if the infrastructure crumbles.
Crumbling bridges is the catalyst for another shovel ready stimulus authorization that will be misdirected to the uses at the last minute. They laugh about such deals afterwards. The point is that orderly funding for infrastructure does not fit with misdirection plays with huge pots of crisis-related stimulus and related lapses in policy judgement.
“$500 million is only a drop in the ocean, compared…”
In all due respect I beg to differ. In Illinois, the state Obama chose to foreplay his political career, Grand Theft starts at $3,000.00. (My older sister learned this the hard way – just kidding.) I believe that is a class 3 felony. I believe Grand Theft elevates to a class 2 felony at $10,000.00. $500,000,000.00 divided by $10,000.00 is equivalent to 50,000 class 2 felonies.
I believe that is the proper way to look at this.
Ok, so now re-run the GCMs with that $500 mil transferred. Results any different? Nope.
According to the Feeding America website, $1 equals 11 meals for the needy.
“AG Lynch: DOJ Has Discussed Whether to Pursue Civil Action Against Climate Change Deniers”
“(CNSNews.com) – Attorney General Loretta Lynch acknowledged Wednesday that there have been discussions within the Department of Justice about possibly pursuing civil action against so-called climate change deniers.
“This matter has been discussed. We have received information about it and have referred it to the FBI to consider whether or not it meets the criteria for which we could take action on,” Lynch said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Justice Department operations.”
Read more at;
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-hunter/ag-lynch-doj-has-discussed-whether-pursue-legal-action-against-climate
That makes the Great O both a liar AND a thief.
“Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.”
Ben Franklin
Behind every left wing politician is a frustrated dictator.
Everytime Obama opens his mouth about the U.S. it seems he hates the place.
$500 mil would also buy a lot of golf courses.
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Obama is trying to destroy our country by dwindling our military and overspending and leaving us so much in debt we can’t recover by giving everything we have two Muslim countries because he is pro Muslim and anti-christian there are rumors he told the leaders of un Muslim countries he would have the u.s. transformed into a Muslim country by the end of 2016 someone needs to get a leash on this Muslim traitor in the white house and keep him from spending our money without our permission this go It Alone crap can’t go on
Mark, do you really believe all this? Really? Would you genuinely vote and act on unlikely rumours or what someone or other told you down the pub?
I can’t say how pleased I am to be informed by US friends that most US voters have somewhat more insight into politics than yourself, and vote on the basis of good evidence, rather than fantasy. By the way, try looking at how to construct sentences and use commas. They would make your post much easier to read, though the content would still be somewhat dubious.
( By the way, I have a strong suspicion you are using satire?)
Gareth ….. “I can’t say how pleased I am to be informed by US friends that most US voters have somewhat more insight into politics than yourself, and vote on the basis of good evidence, rather than fantasy.”.
I get the jist of your comment …. regarding “rumors” … but don’t put too much stock into your US friends who allegedly have more insight or evidence ……
…. there is little “good evidence” to be had in the US political system. I mean, we elected Obama twice .. and I promise you it had nothing to do with good evidence.
Indeed Dr.Deanster, and Trump is a front runner and likely to be the Republican nomination. If he is ever elected, God forbid, it would be symbolic of the collective breakdown in rationale behaviour by a hitherto wonderful nation. Whole countries have previously acted in the same way.
It may have been mentioned above, but the Omnibus spending bill that the House passed this fall pretty much gave the President carte blanche to do whatever he wanted. Paul Ryan says that this will change next fiscal year, and the House will revert to the customary procedure of voting individual spending bills up or down. This is the way it has to happen, or the Legislature becomes irrelevant, as it has been for the past few years, under the threat of “government shutdowns.” The Republican Congress cannot a this point override a Presidential veto, so that’s why they have caved.
The question is whether Paul Ryan and company will do as he promises, and stand up to this imperial President, even at the risk of “shutting down” the government. In practice that is a hollow threat, and shutting down the monstrous bureaucracies might be just the tonic we need, if we could do it long enough.
The solution is to keep a Republican Congress and elect Ted Cruz, who will stop all the ‘green’ and ‘climate’ nonsense in its tracks. He’s the only candidate who has stood up to the enviro-nazis; he even held hearings recently on “Data or Dogma?” with Mark Steyn, Judith Curry, and John Christy testifying.
/Mr Lynn
Based on this article this Department was allowed to send all these tax dollars to the United Nations for Climate Control and Green Energy. Instead of stealing from the people’s taxes and giving it for some Socialistic BS. How about using our hard earned tax dollars towards lowering our national debt, creating jobs, lowering corporate taxes and lowering the high costs of government imposed regulations on businesses. This Administration stole so much money out of Medicare to establish Obamacare that even though you worked hard paying into Medicare and Social Security it’s not going to be there for long. This year alone hard working people that retired are now faced with the fact that although there was no Social Security COLA, but increases in the monthly costs of Medicare and a higher deductible. Plus what kind of BS lawyers does this group have. Their lawyers rulings have to be in direct opposite of what the Constitution of the United States stipulates, Congress has the power of the purse and must approve expenditures.
This is becoming a really interesting forum for right wing Conservatives in the US to discuss their ideas and rationales for their political beliefs.
All you Trump detractors here, please take the time to read this summery of his positions from his website and direct quotes from him and his official surrogates.
I am a Trump supporter. Most of the anti-Trump comments I read on this site are based on past statements he has made which are or seem to be in conflict with his current positions. Given that conflict, he is labeled as a con man, a liar, a mountebank, a moral cripple, a degenerate, someone who would complete the evisceration of the Constitution undertaken by Obama and his cohorts and, worst of all, Obamas alter ego. Most of those anti-Trump commentators claim they are looking for intellectual and moral purity in their candidate, someone who will restore the constitutional constraints which have been torn asunder by progressives starting with Woodrow Wilson, shrink the size of the Federal government, and realign the power relationships between the Federal and State governments in line with the framers intent. Almost all state that Trump has not put forth any policies, only platitudes garnished with hot air.
No policies? Oh really?
While Trump has said that he does not have an answer for every problem facing the US today (does anyone?), he has taken the following listed policy postions and has also made it clear that in arriving at solutions to our nation’s ills, he will enlist the finest minds he can persuade to help in their identification. His stated positions, listed below, are spot on and warrant his being the Republican nominee and our next president.
Long ago he has called this global warming movement “Bullshit!”.
And YES, THAT’S A DIRECT QUOTE!
Prevent illegal aliens from crossing the border by supporting ICE officers in doing their job, enforcing the laws currently on the Federal books, ending H1B abuses, building a wall and establishing effective controls on future immigration which allow only those who will provide a benefit to the US to enter.
Rescind Obamacare immediately and in its entirety while replacing it with market based systems which reduce overall costs and increase the individual’s ability to select insurance policies which are tailored to their needs based on age, lifestyle and current condition.
Introduce competition into governmental drug purchases thus driving down costs and providing Yuge! savings to patients using those meds.
Destroying ISIS’s forces in the Middle East utterly as well as its ability to
renew itself and gain new adherents worldwide.
Revise the tax code to lower taxes for all catagories of individuals and corporations and incentivise the return of US corporation foreign held assests (dollars and manufacturing jobs) to the US.
Restore strength to all branches of the US Military by eliminating political
influence in purchasing equipment and services which benefit only the
politicians pushing those purchases but do not satisfy the stated needs of the military leadership.
Appoint supreme court and lower court nominees based on judicial philosophies which mirror those held by Justice Thomas and Justice Scalia.
Appoint an Attorney General who will enforce the law fairly and, if warranted, prosecute Hillary Clinton.
Evaluate the infrastructural shortcomings facing the nation at the Federal and State levels and focusing efforts and resources to eliminating those shortcomings.
Eliminating all Federal aid to Sanctuary Cities and taking action against those entities which defy the law.
Reviewing all foreign aid with an eye to modification or elimination based soley on its usefulness in promoting the commercial and geo political interests of the US.
Reviewing all global trade agreements and relationships to ensure that all participants are treated fairly. Free trade only works when all participants play by the same rules.
Renegotiate or rescind the deal with Iran.
Support Israel if attacked.
Sounds. Pretty. Damn. Good. To. Me.
So, all you here who keep attacking and slandering Trump for his style just might want to take a gander at his substance instead of doing the Leftists’ and Globalists’ work for them.
The Trump will tell you whatever you want to hear in order to make ‘the deal’. In this case, the deal is for the conservative Republican primary voter to vote for him. So that’s what his ‘policies’ are worth: snakeoil for the gullible.
If you believe him, I’ll sell you one of his bridges. No bridges? No problem. He’ll tell you he has plenty. Which one do you want?
/Mr Lynn
“Rescind Obamacare immediately and in its entirety while replacing it with market based systems which reduce overall costs and increase the individual’s ability to select insurance policies which are tailored to their needs based on age, lifestyle and current condition.”
But not their financial situation.
Trump will restore the God given right of every American to die from treatable illnesses because they can’t afford the insurance or can’t find insurance for their condition.
The only problem that there seems to be no available treatment for is the delusion that Donald Trump is a real and ethical politician. The fact that he is a Russian sleeper should also be taken into account. ( Why not? he tormented Obama for long enough on even more dubious ideas)
Felonious Maximus
And immortal….
“If the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) gave away a dollar an hour, it would take more than 114,155 years to get rid of $1 billion.”
Forbes 2016
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Any money going to the U.N. ought to need approval from Congress
By Don De
Whenever I’ve had to fire employees over the years, I’ve always made sure to control the event by securing everything this person had access to PRIOR to the dismissal to minimize or totally eliminate any potential negative consequences. Obama is in the Lame Duck session of his Administration as President. He’s being fired thru attrition. Yet, unlike any smart business person would do, our Congress, that THEORETICALLY controls the purse strings in our Government, is in absolute dereliction of their duty if Obama is still allowed to give away even a wooden nickel never less a HALF A BILLION DOLLARS. Congress had better enact a moratorium on his spending. His focus now, among other nefarious activities is the redistribution of American wealth. He has incurred the largest deficit in the history of our nation, more so than all preceding US Presidents. Unless he’s stopped now, he will continue to give away billions of US tax dollars to his cronies and despots around the world thru their primary cornucopia of funds, the United Nations, that basket of US wealth that keeps on giving. If Congress doesn’t stop Obama now, the negative consequences of his largesse and it effect on generations of Americans may soon be insurmountable.