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A Patriot’s view of the history and direction of our Country

countries do not pay a proportionate share – and sometimes none.

Our government, and the United Nations, asserts that there is a
significant benefit to this disproportionate budgeting to the United

States in the United Nations supporting the international interests
and programs of the United States. There is certainly some

international evidence that this is no longer true. Slowly the United
Nations has evolved from an international organization of five

superpowers of different governing and socioeconomic policies,
generating a sense of balance and world leadership. Consistent with

the natural bell curve, over decades the size of the United Nations
member countries has tripled, with the overwhelming member

countries falling in the middle of the bell, the five superpowers at
the top and a broader base of third-world countries along the

bottom. However, as to annual payments to the United Nations the
five superpowers – led by the United States – make up the body of

the bell, with the other countries almost footing the bill for the rest.
Like unions and other socialized efforts, the ‘fair share’ concept is

dependent on who is on the receiving end of the payments versus
the benefits; one is the converse of the other – but only one is fair,

or without bias.
As an added complexity to international socialism and our

Country’s excesses, the United Nations is nothing more than a
political albatross. The United States, we as taxpayers, provided

hundreds of billions of dollars to foreign countries in the form of

foreign aid and guaranteed loans. Patently the purpose is
humanitarian; latently the purpose is consistent with the domestic
policy – to promote socialism while maintaining the stick and carrot

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