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I will agree that the UN's functions as a public forum for the nation-states of the world are incredibly valuable. While I disagree with our involving ourselves in it from a legal standpoint ( that whole 'entangling alliances' thing ) I agree that, as members of the club, we have to play by the club's rules.
However, the UN's various "Social programs" are nothing more than Armed Robbery on a world scale; a system by which wealthy nations are fleeced and poor nations made dependant upon the fleecers. Nations like the US and Germany lose because we lose huge quantities of money; nations like Somalia and Bangladesh lose because they are dependant upon those funds ( in the form of loans ) for their continued existance. When they are forced to default upon the loans ( as they usually are ) the UN takes the money out of their rainforests/mines/seas through the aegis of the various multinational corporate and banking interests which largely control the massive beurocracy of the UN itself.
It is not the 'job' of the US Government to 'promote development' or anything else using money taken from Americans ( or anyone else ) by force. If a private individual wishes to do so, they are to be commended; however, the "wealth redistribution" schema of the UN, like all coercive taxes, are nothing more than common thuggery carried out by an unholy consortium of 3rd-world dictators, bankers, corporate fascists, and power-grubbing politicians of all stripes.
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