Sign the Petition to Slash UN Funding

From the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste:

Our politicians continue to pour your tax money into the United Nations.
When will they learn that the American people are sick and tired of throwing billions of dollars into this black hole of waste, fraud, and abuse?!

Please sign the National Petition ordering Congress to slash U.S. funding of this wasteful, bloated, anti-American bureaucracy. Washington needs to hear from you right now.

The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste has been battling out-of-control spending and taxes since 1984. But nothing gets on our nerves more than the federal government wasting billions and billions of our tax dollars to prop up the UN.

This den of bureaucrats, crooks, dictators, and thieves doesn't deserve a single penny of your hard-earned money, especially given the recent anti-Israel vote in the UN.

And yet, every year the politicians give in and fork over more and more American tax dollars to an organization that runs programs contrary to the interests of our country.
It's time to change that.

With fiscal conservatives now in control of Congress and the White House, we have an unprecedented opportunity to drastically slash U.S. funding of the bloated and wasteful United Nations.
But we need to make sure Congress' newly elected leadership and President Trump knows that this is a top priority for American taxpayers, which is why I need your signature on this petition right now!
Just click here to sign our National Petition to Congress. If we don't act quickly, Congress is going to send yet another giant check to the UN so that it can continue to bash America and undermine our interests.
Right now, Americans are paying $1.2 BILLION per year in DUES to the UN. We also pay $2.3 BILLION, or 28 percent, of the UN peacekeeping budget. Then there are the "voluntary payments" for special UN programs and funds. In one recent year, we gave the UN a record total of $7.7 BILLION.

America's taxpayers pay 25 percent of all UN expenses! And this is at a time when our own government is still running a deficit of nearly half a trillion dollars! This nonsense must stop. Please sign your Petition now.

Here is what your money is paying for:

•The UN is planning to construct yet another spectacular building in New York at a cost of as much as $2 billion.

•Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has admitted that "perhaps half of the UN workforce does nothing useful."

•Third World dictators routinely fly to UN headquarters in New York to attack our great country and undermine our national interests.

•And UN-funded "peacekeeper" troops have abused the people they are supposed to be protecting and created a deadly and costly cholera epidemic in Haiti!

Congress must slash funding for the UN. American taxpayers should not be paying for this waste and abuse.
Sign your Petition right now. This is really important.

The new leadership in Congress and President Trump need to know that this issue is of the utmost importance for the American people. Especially right now, as our government continues to run massive deficits and the UN is working against our allies in the Middle East. Just click here.

And please, please ask everyone you know to sign this National Petition as well.

If we don't stand up now, Congress will continue funding the UN year after year and wasting our tax dollars supporting our enemies abroad.

That's how things work in Washington. And it's got to stop.

Sign your Petition. Tell Congress to stand up to the wasteful status quo and slash funding for the UN.
Thank you for all of your help.

Some things from Freedom Works

From Freedom Works:

Starting this year, the IRS will begin silencing grassroots conservatives.
The Obama administration proposed new rules that will make it illegal for non-profit groups like FreedomWorks to help citizens hold government accountable.
Before enacting these rules, the IRS is required to accept comments from the public. That means THIS is your opportunity to tell DC bureaucrats to stop silencing conservatives!

Watch the video and learn how to submit a comment to the IRS.

The proposed IRS rules are a direct attack on your freedom of speech. They will limit the ability of concerned citizens to contact their elected officials. They will make it harder for small tea party, 9/12, and school choice groups to organize. And they will make it easier for the IRS to silence conservatives across America.

It’s because of patriots like you that members of Congress are holding the line on issues like spending, ObamaCare, and NSA spying. Just as the IRS illegally targeted conservatives, now the agency is trying to silence our voice.

Free speech is a constitutional right. These new IRS rules will make it harder for grassroots conservatives to come together and hold their government accountable. They must be stopped.

We need to take the fight to the IRS directly. This is our government. We won’t be bullied and we won’t let THEM silence us!

To comment about IRS situtation

Onto other things:

It’s 2013 – do you know how your Congressmen voted last year?

Did your Senators stand with Ted Cruz in the fight to stop ObamaCare? Did your Representative join Justin Amash and vote to defund the NSA?

If you don’t know how your Congressmen voted, you can look it up on the FreedomWorks Score Card.

Last year saw plenty of big votes on ObamaCare, the national debt, the Farm Bill, and civil liberties. FreedomWorks kept careful track of every Congressman and Senator's votes in 2013. We compiled all the information on our Congressional Scorecard. And now, you can see if your representatives in Washington are as conservative as they claim!

The FreedomWorks Scorecard is your one-stop portal to see if your lawmakers were freedom fighters or Big Government stooges.

How they voted

Start Ending Government Waste in 2014

It’s a new year, and that means Sen. Tom Coburn’s released another edition of his Wastebook. Every year, the Oklahoma Senator documents 100 cases of inexcusable government waste. The list runs from pork-barrel projects for political cronies to projects that are downright silly and unnecessary.

Some of the most wasteful spending approved by Congress in 2013 included:

•$65 million spent on tourism during the Hurricane Sandy cleanup.
•$1.5 billion wasted on maintaining buildings the government no longer needs.
•$1.5 million given to Hollywood to help establish “authenticity.”
•$914,000 spent on studying romance stories on the internet.
•At least $379 million spent promoting ObamaCare, including the broken website.

Our federal government spends billions of taxpayer dollars on unnecessary programs like these every year. At a time when millions of regular Americans are cutting back, the federal government should to!

Sen. Coburn has already started fighting one wasteful project. He has co-sponsored a bill that puts a limit to spending on Congressional portraits. Some of these paintings cost as much as $50,000 – thats more than most Americans make in an entire year!

Contact your Senators and urge them to support the “Responsible Use of Taxpayer Dollars for Portraits Act.” This is a bipartisan effort to curb wasteful spending. And we can start the year off by saving taxpayer money!

Tell your Senators to support the “Responsible Use of Taxpayer Dollars for Portraits Act.”

End wasteful spending