What Does the US Get from the UN?
Can you say a poke in the eye, bupkiss, or an extended maintenance plan that always expires just days before the thing ya bought goes Tango-Uniform! (ok, T-U was often used on the flightline - sorry folks, tits-up, busted, not goin’anywhere, dead)
Uh-huh, that’s right. What’s the deal, we pay and pay and they vote against us and tell us that we are too big for our britches. The EU takes every opportunity to trash the United States. Tin horn dictators love to tip their huge buckets in our well, and then spit in it for good measure.
Let’s see what’s out there at NewsMax in their special report out today:
U.N. Report Card: Handful of Nations, Including Israel, Stand with U.S.
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“NewsMax examined 12 key General Assembly votes taken on issues of critical importance to the U.S., and found that only four countries - Israel and the Pacific Ocean nations of Palau, Micronesia and Marshall Islands sided with the U.S. on most of the issues.”
“The rest of the U.N. members voted against the U.S. position the vast majority of the time, and dozens of countries voted along with America ZERO PERCENT of the time.”
“These nations include some of the biggest recipients of U.S. foreign aid…”
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So, here’s the cash that goes out, and the support that goes in:
- Turkey GETS $1.007B/yr (excludes military support) WE GET 12 key issues Turkey votes with us 0%
- Ethiopia GETS $594M WE GET another 0% support
- Colombia GETS $524M WE GET another 0% support
- Egypt GETS $460M WE GET another 0% support
- Jordan GETS $224M WE GET another 0% support
- Peru GETS $229M WE GET another 0% support
- UN GETS US pays 22% of total UN Budget WE GET pressure to lift Cuba embargo, slap Israel, and nuclear disarmament
“Even some of America’s closest allies voted against U.S. interests. France, Germany, Italy, Japan and South Korea, for example, all sided with the U.S. on just 8 percent of the votes.”
Here’s the NewsMax feature called “The U.N.’s Great Follies”:
- The U.N. voted to remove its forces from Rwanda in the early days of tribal conflicts there. Result: More than 900,000 Tutsis were slaughtered in April 1994.
- The Iraqi people were defrauded of at least $1.8 billion in revenue from the oil-for-food program designed to alleviate civilian suffering resulting from sanctions against the Saddam Hussein regime. Alleged wrongdoers included the U.N. secretariat.
- Sudan won re-election to the U.S. Commission on Human Rights in 2004 despite potentially genocidal atrocities in the Darfur region.
- U.N. peacekeepers in the Congo allegedly used food and money to pay for sex with girls as young as 12.
Sheesh. Wanna know where all your tax dollars go? Do you think we are spending too much on the US Military? Do you think we fund big oil? Is it your opinion that we don’t spend enough on schools?
Actually, about $3 Billion is listed right there, a couple of paragraphs up, did ya realize that?
TAGS: Fix4RSO, Milblog, Military, UN, Dishonor, Waste, Scum
