Multilateral Brainstorming – UN Style!!

Well at least we can visually begin to acknowledge where more than 300 billion dollars a year of our hard earned - well allocated funds are being sent to disappear. Doesn’t anybody else find it odd or perhaps even a bit disturbing to know that every year the United States of America willingly funds and assists this hideous conglomerate to the tune of $8,219,178.08 a day? Yes that’s right, and if that number didn’t do the trick take a quick gander at the most recent US State Department figures through the 2003-2004 fiscal calendar year.

$362 million for the UN regular budget
$400 million to assist with UN “specialized agencies”
$1.1 billion (yes b as in boy) for “peacekeeping”
$72 million in support of international war tribunals
And nearly $6 million for “preparatory work relating to the UN Capital Master Plan”

All of which amounts to the United States serving as the single largest donor of ill-adviced, largely unsuccessful, attempts of an intercontinental ferver. After all the US is solely responsible for:

48% of the UN's World Food Program Budget
17% of the UN's Children's Fund Budget
31% of the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees Budget

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I sure feel much better having now seen, with my own two-eyes, this well articulated and highly informative list of universally funded mandates. All of which mind you, have been discussed and agreed upon by an un-elected deeply un-democratic delegation, whose sole purpose has now dwindled from that of universal gatekeeper and protectorate to nothing more than global procrastinator and/or corruption filled enabler.