On Dec 13, 8:28 am, harry krause wrote:
wrote:
On Dec 13, 7:36 am, wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:04:44 -0800, Calif Bill wrote:
And we pay most of the UN bills?
22% and at one time we were one billion in arrears. Other major
contributors are Japan (19.63%), Germany (9.82%), France (6.50%), the
United Kingdom (5.57%), Italy (5.09%), Canada (2.57%) and Spain (2.53%).

Special UN programs not included in the regular budget (such as UNICEF,
UNDP, UNHCR, and WFP) are financed by voluntary contributions from member
governments. In 2001, it is estimated that such contributions from the US
will total approximately $1.5 billion. Much of this is in the form of
agricultural commodities donated for afflicted populations, but the
majority is financial contributions.

From:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...United_Nations

Yeah, and there is another oil for food type issue coming up with
Korea, more corruption in the UN, We have no need for the UN, none at
all...

$1.5 billion? What's that equal to, the amount of money we waste each
minute on our military and private contractors and their continuing
misadventure turning Iraq into a democracy?- Hide quoted text -

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Uh, no, but you keep saying it and it will be true enough for TV news