WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Frustrated by deadbeat foreign diplomats, the U.S. Congress has voted to cut aid to their countries by about the sum they owe in unpaid parking tickets.

At the urging of New York lawmakers, Congress tucked the measure -- to cut aid to countries next year by 110 percent of the amount their diplomats owe in parking tickets and penalties -- into the huge $388 billion spending bill lawmakers approved over the weekend.

New York City, which houses the United Nations, would stand to recover about $195 million from about 200 countries, New York's senators said.


http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/24/congress.diplomats.reut/index.html

These foreigners ! They live on US aid and don't even pay their parking tickets ! :(

LOL, deadbeat diplomats, thats good

Finally, these "deadbeat diplomats" are going to have to answer to someone about their bad parking habbits. I'd hate to be a diplomat and have to explain why their aid from the U.S. is cut in half because they don't know how to feed a parking meter.

Well, that's one way to reduce the deficit...

thats some serious parking tickets to drop the aid from our government to theirs by half. unless of course we are talking about the diplomats from Lichtenstein