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Bill Gates, There’s an Easy Fix for that WHO Problem
Bill Gates says Donald Trump is dangerous for cutting $500 million in funding to the World Health Organization.
- The World Health Organization is a disgrace. Their inaction, political correctness, and sucking up to thugs and murderers like the Chinese Communists has caused many good people to die around the world.
- The United States is broke.
- If there was only someone with enough money to donate $500 million to the World Health Organization… Bill Gates has historically been just about the richest person on the planet. If he wishes to send $500 million to the World Health Organization, he is free to do so. Jeez, what a complainer!
Gates can give his money to WHO. I have no desire to have my hard earned money removed by force via taxes to go to them.
It amazes me how often people who demand the government spend money on something don’t spend their own money on that thing, and seem not to understand that they could use their own money for what they claim government should do. This is especially true of rich people who say the government should tax them more. Well, they could donate to the government the money they think they should be additionally taxed. But somehow they only seem to want it if other people are forced to share in the demander’s priorities. The demanders (like Mr. Gates) covet other people’s money for their own priorities.
Most international busybody organizations are a waste of money and effort, but otherwise generally harmless (i.e., useless).
But the World Health Organization has shown itself to be worse than useless, to be actively harmful to world health. I don’t see why an organization that is harmful to the health of people across the globe should continue to exist.
The whole point of funding international organizations out of taxpayer funds is so the taxpayers can cut the funding off (by voting for someone like President Trump) if the organization doesn’t perform according to expectations. If billionaires fund the organizations privately then there’s little way to cut off the funding.
Don’t stop there. Maybe it’s time to pull the plug on the whole UN. We could claim that it’s unsafe to allow the ambassadors into the country, and we have to convert the building into hospital beds.
The CoronaVirus is hardly the biggest cause of corruption and disease in New York City . . . .
Didn’t Gates just donate $100 million to WHO’s Wu Flu effort in February? Pony up the remaining $400 million if you feel so strongly about it.
Defund the WHO and the UN, sure.
But would someone please explain to me again how a President has authority over some appropriations? Where does the Congressional power of the purse end?
The current pandemic shows us all that WHO has not done a good job. Why should the US pay money for a bad job?
Yes, I know we do it all the time. We pay Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer’s salaries, for example. But paying for poor work is not a goal to which we should aspire.
If he does, China will make him head of the WHO . . .
Congress appropriates, the Executive spends. The money is still appropriated whether or not it actually gets spent. If Congress doesn’t think the Executive is spending the money “faithfully”, they have the option of impeachment. Congress has no other power to force the Executive to do anything.
The WHO cheerleaders argue that it’s because the WHO is the only organization available that can coordinate global response to pandemic. In other words, you pay for a bad job when the party you’re paying enjoys a monopoly.
The cheerleaders’ argument begs a number of questions, of course.
He doesn’t want to be the head of the WHO. The head of the WHO is a puppet. Bill Gates doesn’t want to be a puppet. He wants to be the puppetmaster.
We spent more than half of the twentieth century openly contesting the worldwide communist movement. The communists have for many decades now been in a process of shifting tactics away from an open and aggressive propaganda campaign touting communist philosophy to a much more subtle approach to undermine individual liberty by hijacking American productive capacity through political maneuvering, i.e. globalism with China as a central player.
I enjoy every move now that diminishes this global mindset. The last thing humanity needs is a single government with no other choices in life.
Afternoon Cloaked,
Sorry in advance.
Bill Gates can give to the WHO.
Bill Gates is a fan of The Who, why does The Who need support?
Not The Who, WHO.
Who?
Yes.
Bill Gates is a fan of Yes and giving to Yes.
No!
You want me to Guess Who?
No, I am just telling you it is WHO.
Ok, ok, we are not getting anywhere so Who’s Next.
I believe that organizations such as the two you mention get their money out of a bigger pot that Congress authorizes, i.e., foreign affairs, foreign assistance, etc., and the administration has a good deal of discretion in how it is spent within that bigger pot.
Are you Abbott or Costello?
Afternoon Bob,
Unfortunately, I am not as talented as either one, I, weakly, tried to steal their bit.
So, who cares who heads WHO?
Or, more importantly, who cares who at WHO coordinates with who about who has Wuflu?
But, we can feel free to ignore billionaire-funded organizations because we have no stake in them. Taxpayer funding creates an imprimatur of authority to which we feel obliged to listen.
I think WHO left and is now on First…:)
There is also the power of Congress to defund the President’s pet projects. But government budgeting can only be ratcheted one way these days, it seems.
If a President can unilaterally withhold appropriations for anything, it surprises me that doing so is not more common. Aside from the back-and-forth funding of abortions in foreign operations, one doesn’t often read about it. Maybe as Democrats and Republicans become less chummy that will change.
Heavy is the head who heads the WHO.
Yes. Wait until Horton hears about this!
Of course, it’s probably a good thing that no one at WHO is infected. Otherwise an internal investigation would be required to find out who at WHO is responsible for who at WHO coordinates with who at WHO about finding out who at WHO has Wuflu. (I mean if you were at WHO what would you do?).
The USA is the biggest contributor by far – disproportionately so-to a number of international organisations, including the WHO. This never seems to be recognised until that funding is cut or withdrawn.
The WHO is a mess of special interests. Private donations allow the donor to select what project they want to see funded. If the US taxpayer is the largest donor then we get to run the organization, if not then we stop government funding of the WHO. It’s rather tiresome to see a parade of third world malcontents who support other third world malcontents calling the shots, and yes, China, and Russia are third world nations.
It seems one of the most effective things our government does is fund people that hate it and its citizens.
Won’t Be Fooled Again!!
Who are you? Who, who?