BF2S Forums The selfishness of the USA

weamo8 wrote:

btw Kmarion, your computer is unbelievable - good on you.  If I had enough posts to give you karma, I would.

weamo8 wrote:

Where does our government get the gall to give away our hard earned money without our consent???

Last edited by Rosse_modest (2006-09-28 17:04:43)

TrollmeaT wrote:

We should be more selfish as a country, & not give alms out to beggars, give them jobs instead.

Kmarion wrote:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/unvote.asp

snopes.com wrote:

Of the 83 resolutions we surveyed for our informal tally, in ten cases the U.S. was the only Member State to vote against them, and in five cases only one other nation joined the U.S. in voting against them. In fact, in over half the total cases (42 out of 83), the U.S. was supported by five or fewer Member States in voting against a U.N. resolution. So it isn't just the Arab/Islamic states who consistently vote against the U.S. in the United Nations — pretty much the rest of the world does, too.

snopes.com wrote:

However, we also surveyed the U.N. voting records of several countries generally considered to be close allies of the U.S., and those results were none too impressive either. Only Israel consistently voted with the U.S.:

Australia--------44%
Canada---------51%
Israel-----------11%
Japan-----------58%
UK---------------40%
France----------46%

How much significance one should place in these figures is problematic, because most other U.N. Member States have records of voting against the U.S. that are equally as bad as the records of the countries named in the message above. U.N. votes on resolutions are frequently lopsided, pitting a single nation or a handful of nations against all the others, and more often than not the U.S. is the one nation at odds with the rest of the world. Of the 83 resolutions we surveyed for our informal tally, in ten cases the U.S. was the only Member State to vote against them, and in five cases only one other nation joined the U.S. in voting against them. In fact, in over half the total cases (42 out of 83), the U.S. was supported by five or fewer Member States in voting against a U.N. resolution. So it isn't just the Arab/Islamic states who consistently vote against the U.S. in the United Nations — pretty much the rest of the world does, too.

Last edited by KEN-JENNINGS (2006-09-28 17:23:57)

The_Shipbuilder wrote:

TrollmeaT wrote:

We should be more selfish as a country, & not give alms out to beggars, give them jobs instead.

But I thought conservatives had problems with giving jobs to beggars. Isn't that why they're working so hard to deport construction workers, farm workers, and assembly-line workers back to Mexico?

TrollmeaT wrote:

The_Shipbuilder wrote:

TrollmeaT wrote:

We should be more selfish as a country, & not give alms out to beggars, give them jobs instead.

But I thought conservatives had problems with giving jobs to beggars. Isn't that why they're working so hard to deport construction workers, farm workers, and assembly-line workers back to Mexico?

Anyone who doesn't recognize Mexico as the USA's new work force is sadly mistaken, we need to get the illegals into the system & paying taxes , after all bush just gave them access to our social security without contributing anything to it?!

Kmarion wrote:

The United States gives $13.3 billion tax dollars in direct Foreign Aid annually.

Kmarion wrote:

The United States is above and beyond the single most generous benefactor of the United Nations, donating $2.4 billion dollars of OUR money, to primarily third-world dictators.

Kmarion wrote:

This amount is 25% of the United Nations budget. In addition, the United States also gives another $1.4 billion tax dollars to United Nations' programs and agencies. The American taxpayers fund more for the United Nations than ALL of the other 177 member nations COMBINED.