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The United States contributes 22% of the United Nations budget. Why? Use that money for our economy.
I think every nation should leave it. If nations need to resolve something then they should just meet then. Why is a multinational powerless money wasting bureaucracy a good thing again?
What do they need all that money for anyway?
If the only consideration is money you're drastically overselling the amount of money we contribute to the UN budget by using only a percentage. This is commonly done in reverse as it relates to our spending on foreign policy and aid initiatives. The actual percentage of our overall government operating budget for pure foreign policy aid and discourse is infinitely smaller than people think it is as a result.
The greater questions are not the pure financial costs involved but the questions of its effectiveness (at present especially) where there are various multi-lateral organisations that could easily be judged as more effective in the international stage both for economic arrangements and to resolve territorial and domestic disputes (G8/G20/IMF/EU/Red Cross/WTO/non-aligned states/NATO/OAS, etc). In otherwords, this is more about its overall value and not its cost, which is in fact a pittance to us.
Also, we do not "contribute" 22% of the budget. That's how much we're supposed to be paying as assessed by the UN. Not how much we actually contribute.
I'm sure we pay the amount though.
Nope. We actually owe about 2/3s of it most years.
To be honest and factual about the United Nations, it is the most impotent body politic that has ever been invented by mankind.
The impotent U.N. is directly responsible for the two Korea's, Viet Nam, most of the unrest in the middle east, the Kosovo ethnic cleansings, and don't get me started on the African Continent debacles.
The U.N. is filled with more corruption, illegal international activities, and graft than one can ever imagine.
Why is this, you ask? For the one simple reason that the U.N. answers to absolutely no one! There is no way to control it, guide it, just throw money at it and watch it waste that money in grand style.
My answer to your question – if you haven't guessed by now – is a resounding YES.
That is just my not-so-humble opinion.
I'm afraid its not that easy, we can't just leave.
Yes, it wouldn't be easy but I think we should. The UN has proven itself pretty much a useless waste of time.
I heard useless, wasteful and powerless. While the first two are true, powerless they are not. You could also add evil and intent on world domination. Search "Iron Mountain Report"
Mike is right- useless, wasteful, but not powerless, far from powerless.
I don't see why the US should 'owe' money to the UN at all. I'm rather curious, I haven't managed to find anything regarding it- what exactly is the UN? And if we were to get out, how would we go about it?
Another thing- why in teh world does the UN want our monopoly (er, I mean, Fed) money anyway? It's not like it's worth anything.
The UN and the fed are interwoven like a rug and folks like Rockefeller and Rothschild are the rug weavers. Search: Bilderberg, Council on Foreign Relations and The Trilateralist Group for starters.
Why not? What would happen? It's not like the UN actually does anything ever, so if we leave what will happen? They'll pass a non-binding resolution that the USA is a bunch of poopie heads?
Hell yea. Why should the US spend AMERICAN money on matters that don’t even affect the average AMERICAN? Since your involvement in the UN in the 1940′s, American debt has skyrocketed (which, as the world economy depends on Wall Street, isn’t good). I’m not an American citizen, but in times like these, I would focus on getting my own country back on track than blowing money to useless purposes.