Oh Great – US Will Continue To Pay One Fifth Of UN Budget

"The US taxpayers should start wearing signs on their backs that says, "SUCKERS!" If we had any brains we'd send the UN a bill for all expenses to the US since 1945. Then give them 15 minutes to evacuate their New York headquarters before bulldozing it into Turtle Bay. It's time they all packed up to go home to their respective countries. No where in the world does any other country pay so much for an entity that does so little for the host country. Why do we pay any money to the UN? Problem is it is not the American people who approve of these payments to the United Nations, it is our Traitorous Politicians that approve of these payments. We need to get these Traitors out of office in both the Republican and Democratic Parties. It's bad enough they have their headquarters here and everyone that's part of them can break the law here with impunity. That should be more than enough in compensation. How do they figure we have the money to give them? We're broke. If they don't know that much about what's going on in the world then why do they even exist? Screw them! They should be paying us money to have their headquarters here. The UN should be shut down and their Communist butts sent packing! Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US". MC

The United Nations has almost 200 member nations, yet the United States pays more than one fifth of the group’s budget. This, even though the UN constantly works to undermine the US. Good grief.
Worse yet, our UN representative is quite pleased that we will continue to shoulder this burden for another three years.

In one of its last actions of the year, the United Nations General Assembly on Christmas Eve agreed to
extend for another three years the formula that has U.S. taxpayers contributing more than one-fifth of the world body’s regular budget.

No member-state called for a recorded vote, and the resolution confirming the contributions that each country will make for the 2013-2015 period was summarily adopted. The assembly also approved a two-year U.N. budget of $5.4 billion.

The U.S. has accounted for 22 percent of the total regular budget every year since 2000, and will now continue to do so for the next three years.

The U.S. representative for U.N. management and reform, Joseph Torsella, expressed satisfaction that the U.S. contribution had not been raised above that level.

“The United States is very pleased to have maintained the critical 22 percent ceiling for U.S. contributions to the U.N. regular budget, protecting U.S. taxpayers from the additional bills – estimated to be at least $300 million annually in both the regular and peacekeeping budgets – that would have resulted from an increase in the U.S. ceiling level,” he said.