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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Kstar, the fact that we "owe" the UN money doesn't mean we're not giving it any. The US donates manpower, equipment, weapons, ships...while most other countries get reimbursed. We're also the largest donor to UN agencies like UNICEF.
Say you started a group which benefits you little, but others a lot. You allow the group to meet at your house. Members in the group even start doing things that are bad for you. They disrespect your house, and get away with it. All while you pay a quarter of the bills for the group, while other wealthy people, who benefit from the group 1000 times more than you, pay a much smaller fraction of the costs...= the UN
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The idea is that the UN benefits everyone in the world, it might not be directly, but the whole world benefits from the UN. And if anyone has a problem with showing respect, it is the US. We, as a nation, disregarded the UN and didn't let UN weapon's inspectors do their jobs, instead starting a war with another member state. A war that was started on "faulty intelligence" remember?
Where did I state or imply that we haven't paid anything? As the richest nation in the world, we should have to pay more than others. I think it's deplorable that we're in arrears while nations that are broke pay an extremely high percentage of their national budgets to be members.
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