Dear Friend,

I want to urge you in the strongest terms possible to click here to sign the
CITIZEN'S DEMAND TO SLASH U.S. FUNDING OF THE UNITED NATIONS.

1.8 BILLION TAX DOLLARS -- $1,800,000,000.00!

That's how much we spend each year in annual dues payments to the United Nations.

What's worse, there are also the "voluntary payments," which in some years exceed our dues payments. Between 1992 and 1997, we gave the U.N. an additional $11 BILLION. In total, we pay an estimated 25 percent of all U.N. expenses.

And what do we get for these tens of billions of dollars?

We provide a platform for nations who despise us! We are giving a voice to nations that oppose our American values of democracy, justice, free enterprise, privacy and private property rights!

In short, your tax dollars are paying for a rag-tag collection of dictators and socialists to propagandize and work against our security and economic interests.

What is the thanks that we get for the generations of Americans who fought in the trenches of France during World War I and stormed the shores of Normandy, as well as died to defend freedom in countless other places around the world?

The thanks we got, as we prepared to disarm a dictator who had invaded his neighbors and murdered thousands of his own citizens, was blistering criticism, NO votes, and multiple veto threats!

The U.N. not only won't stand behind their own resolutions, they fought against having us do that for them!

In addition to spending our tax dollars to thwart American interests around the world, the United Nations is ripe with waste, fraud and abuse. Let me give you just three examples of the massive waste of our tax dollars:

• In Somalia, $369,000 was paid for fuel distribution services the contractor never provided.
• A project director of the UN Relief and Works Agency, which helps Palestinian refugees, kept $100,000 of agency money in his private bank account.
• In Nairobi, a member of the UN Center for Human Settlements arranged loans worth $98,000 for a company of which she had been a partner and with whose director she was "closely associated."

The list goes on and on! By slashing our U.N. funding, we could improve America's security at home and abroad, reduce the soaring federal deficit, pay for tax cuts to stimulate the economy, or wire the funds directly to Baghdad to pay for the reconstruction of Iraq!

If you agree that the U.N. is nothing more than a paper tiger intent on biting the hand that feeds it (the United States of America), I urge you to http://www.ifr-ors.com/lr.cfm?A=991&F=1

click here to sign our CITIZEN'S DEMAND TO SLASH U.S. FUNDING OF THE U.N. today.

We will tabulate these CITIZEN'S DEMANDS and publicize them nationally as concrete evidence of the growing demand among Americans for dramatically restructuring our relationship with the United Nations.

Your voice urgently needs to be heard in Washington and this CITIZEN'S DEMAND is the most powerful way you can make a statement. Please sign it today.

Sincerely,

Tom Schatz President, Citizens Against Government Waste

P.S. Columnist George Will recently wrote, "The U.N., a collection of regimes of less than uniform legitimacy, has anointed itself the sole arbiter of what are legitimate military actions. And it has claimed a duty to leash the only nation that has the power to enforce U.N. resolutions. How long will that nation's public be willing to pay one-quarter of the U.N.'s bills?"

You can answer that question by clicking here and signing our CITIZEN'S DEMAND TO SLASH U.S. FUNDING OF THE UNITED NATIONS today.