John Hostettler: “As we all know, the U.S. easily pays the lion's share of the burden for keeping the U.N. in operation. Each year the…”

“As we all know, the U.S. easily pays the lion's share of the burden for keeping the U.N. in operation. Each year the U.S. spends approximately $1 billion for the U.N.'s regular budget, peacekeeping operations, and various other U.N. programs. In addition, in 1995, the U.S. spent approximately $1 billion for U.N. peacekeeping operations above and beyond our assessed dues. In fact, a recent GAO report documents that from 1992 to 1995 the U.S. supported the U.N. in its peacekeeping ventures to the tune of $6.6 billion, but only $1.8 billion of this was counted toward our assessed dues to the U.N. Of the remaining $4.8 billion, only $79 million has been reimbursed to the United States. If we deduct the $1.3 billion the U.N. claims we owe them from the $4.8 billion of nonreimbursed U.S. expenditures, the result is $3.5 billion that the U.N. still must pay or credit to the United States. Perhaps the U.N. bureaucrats think this was a gift from American taxpayers, but it certainly was not.”