"Nexie" wrote in message and badger while agreeing, nevertheless yielded
to
the pedant inside and was forced to add
<various trollings snipped since some correspondances are now ended>
> I believe most call the UN (although some prefer the Ghostbusters).
> America usually only gets involved when it's caused the problems in the
> first place. Granted Britain has thrown in it's lot with America rather
> than Europe, and also granted that America is a member of the UN and
> contributes accordingly, but that doesn't make you saviours of the
planet.
(all these figures have been taken from published UN do***ents and are
easily verifiable if anyone wants to check them)
"U.S. arrears to the UN currently total over $1.3 billion."
"USA's aid, in terms of percentage of their GNP has almost always been
lower
than any other industrialized nation in the world ...(Only in 2004 did
they
move up from last place by one.) "
"Overseas development aid as GNP Percentage 2004
norway 0.85 %
france 0.42 %
united kingdom 0.36 % (not exactly saints ourselves are we ?)
united states 0.16 %"
Source: OECD Web site
(the target set by the UN in 1970, yes 1970 ... was 0.7 % by 1975 !!! only
norway, sweden, denmark and holland have yet reached this figure)
"The US recently (2003-2005) increased its military budget by some $100
billion dollars alone"
badger XXX
(now officially given up trying to be funny)
p.s. the lowest net contributor is italy with only 0.15 % of GNP being
given
in ODA in 2004
which makes the US (as Lister once said) "somewhere on the evolutionary
scale between rats and italians"
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