Re: Picture of the Year
  By: John Massey to Daniel Prather on Mon Dec 31 2007 08:36 pm

 > The ENTIRE U.N. Depends on the U.S.
 >
 > With out our money and support the U.N. would go out of business.

Also, just another point of information.  This is flawed, because of the
following reasons:

 * The US provides only 22% of total UN funding
 * The US is overly late on all its UN payments for this year.
 * The US is currently responsible for 50% of all monies owed to the UN.

That said, do you have any idea what the UN budget is?  Not including special
programs that have their own, voluntary financing structures such as UNICEF and
UNDP, the estimated UN operating budget for 2007 is just under $4.2 billion.
That's 10 days worth of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.  That's $14 per US
citizen per year.  If you think the UN can't exist without that funding from
the United States, think again.

-- Daniel
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