| I don't care how much or how little the U.S. gives, that is none of business, and I am just happy that they give at all but that being said.
For the sake of argument lets look at this article:
Whopdy freaken do, so they pay about a quarter of the U.N. total budget. Do we know why the U.S. does that?
They do that because it is a direct reflection of how much of the worlds GDP the U.S. owns. That is how the U.N. was set up. The U.S. makes up about 25% of the worlds GDP, therefore, they pay about 25% of the U.N.'s total bills(that is when they actually pay up).
As for the the donation money the site doesn't break down where that 2.4 billion goes to. Does that include "aid" money they send to Israel, Egypt, Pakistan and so on?
Also, the U.S. being the richest country in the world, you would think that it would have the most money to give, yet a few much smaller, or not so rich Nations have donated just as much or more than the U.S.
It is obvious this arcticle has a huge bias, worse than normal. It's almost as bad as some of the crazy left wing websites out there. You could easily find another site that demostrates just how little the U.S. gives in comparison to its GDP to actual development funds compared to other Nations. |