I didn’t see anyone mention this last week, but the Secretary General of the UN has called us the biggest deadbeat donor in the UN, and complained that they can’t do their job unless we pay up.
I guess he missed the international financial crisis,…oh, and the fact that we pay nearly a quarter of the UNs budget.
I’m honestly not sure why we continue to subsidize what seems to be an entirely ineffectual organization.
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=44922
He should resign.
I thought we were a nation of cowards.
The black market is low on supplies , the UN needs to bring in a stimulus package .
Quick , print some money !!!
And yet the UN is still in NY. I wonder why they don’t move it to the Sudan.
It should be here in San Francisco, it was founded here. New York stole it.
Let them die.
Please don’t bring it West. The last thing I want to see is more diplomats.
It should be here in San Francisco, it was founded here. New York stole it.
Did anything good every come out of San Francisco? Y’all invented AIDS too…right?
If Obama had promised to remove us from the UN and kick their sorry butts out of our country, I’d have voted for him.
It should be here in San Francisco, it was founded here. New York stole it.
Did anything good every come out of San Francisco? Y’all invented AIDS too…right?
Other than the band Journey, San Fran has contributed nothing and further allows a climate of freakism that is viewed as pathetic by much of the rest of the country.
Other than the band Journey, San Fran has contributed nothing and further allows a climate of freakism that is viewed as pathetic by much of the rest of the country.
Why do you hate Huey Lewis?
good point. Huey is on the good list also got to add in the restaurants and nearby wine. Anything else of value come from San Fran?
Ansel Adams, Robert Frost, Jerry Garcia… Oh, and O.J. and Barry Bonds, too.
“The Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development compiles statistics on how much Official Development Assistance the world’s 22 wealthiest countries give each year. The organization’s numbers show that as a portion of Gross National Income (roughly equivalent to GDP), the U.S. now ranks second-to-last in giving, at 0.16 percent. (In 2004, Italy dropped into last place below the U.S.) The U.S. also gives much less than what the industrialized countries pledged to give at the 1992 Rio Conference, which was 0.7 percent of their GDP. U.S. development aid, at 0.16 percent of GDP, represents less than one-quarter of this promise.”
And yet, the United States contributions to the UN are well over 20%, even though the United States is only one of 192 member nations. We may not pay as much as some countries per capita, but we pay way more than our share based on the number of countries represented, and based on what we get out of the deal.
And yet, the United States contributions to the UN are well over 20%, even though the United States is only one of 192 member nations. We may not pay as much as some countries per capita, but we pay way more than our share based on the number of countries represented, and based on what we get out of the deal.
I would be interested to know too how much money the United States gives/donates/invests/funds (whatever verb you want to use) other countries of the world outside of UN mandate. The UN should just say, “Thanks,” and let the US go on. The UN is nothing more than a machine that was set up to redistribute the wealth of producing countries. But really, we seem to be doing that well enough on our own lately.
Bernie
And yet, the United States contributions to the UN are well over 20%, even though the United States is only one of 192 member nations. We may not pay as much as some countries per capita, but we pay way more than our share based on the number of countries represented, and based on what we get out of the deal.
Sounds an awful lot like our own current tax system.
** …set up to redistribute the wealth of producing countries. But really, we seem to be doing that well enough on our own lately.**
A minor point here, but we’re not spreading any wealth around. Debt, is what we’re currently redistributing.
But hey, at least that’s being spread equally, right?
**A minor point here, but we’re not spreading any wealth around. Debt, is what we’re currently redistributing. **
To be honest, I’m not sure. Economics is pretty strange to me and I really don’t understand it. I am fairly certain that the U.S. debt is less than our GDP. I am also pretty sure that this is how they arrive at what we “owe” to the UN.
My point being that we send aid all over the world in many forms. Sometimes it is money, sometimes it is innovative technology, sometimes it is an aircraft carrier, sometimes it is a guy and his wife to a missionary in India. I’ll bet a paycheck that this is not counted in the books at the UN.
Bernie