[QUOTE="Bownse"] X-No-archive: yes You're quoting misinformation from sources with questionable motives.[/QUOTE] Yeah, it's all a conspiracy...isn't it? [QUOTE] That "contribution" ONLY accounts for the money funneled through a single UN program. It doesn't consider all the other contributions the US makes (either directly, through other programs, or via private contributions). [URL]http://www.heritage.org/Research/TradeandForeignAid/wm630.cfm[/URL] "Data from the OECD reveal that the U.S. gave nearly .5 billion in emergency and distress relief in 2003.[6] All other countries combined gave .4 billion, including 5 million from France and 0 million from Norway. Moreover, the U.S. contributed nearly 70 percent of all food assistance." "The United States is a major donor to international relief organizations, including the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which Egelund oversees, to which the U.S. is second largest donor (nearly 14 percent in 2003).[7] America is the largest contributor to the U.N. budget at 22 percent, or 7 million, in 2004. It gives over 56 percent of the World Food Program budget and million and million to the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization, respectively.[8]"[/QUOTE] Wasn't it the United States (no, George W. Bush) who got up in front of the entire world and declared the UN as being "irrelevant and outdated"? It's nice that it now "serves a purpose".... Besides, we're not talking about "private" donations or "other programs". I can give 0billion to the Scottish Rite Hospital here in Dallas...but it doesn't do crap for the American Heart Association.