Montana submits Bill for U.S. departure from the U.N.
A bill that calls on Montana to ask Congress to withdraw the United States from being a part of the United Nations is heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning.
Republican Senator Dave Lewis says the United States wastes billions of dollars to be a part of the United Nations and the bill's language calls for this dissolution so that the united states "may maintain control over its own military forces, finances, and destiny."
But Democrat Representative Franke Wilmer says our nation's annual contribution is a tenth of one percent of the federal budget and feels that there is a lack of understanding surrounding the United Nations and our country's involvement with the organization.
Those who support the bill feel that the UN threatens America’s sovereignty and promotes gun control.
“Global problems including terrorism, weapons proliferation, humanitarian disasters, infectious diseases, not to mention genocide; these are trans-national problems, no single country is the location, no single country can be the solution,” says Democrat Representative Franke Wilmer (House District 64.)
“It seems to me that these are all global problems, trans-national problems, problems that require collaboration and I don’t see what we gain by hunkering down on the prairie and pretending these problems don’t exist,” asks Senator Anders Blewett (D- Senate District 11.)
“Why doesn’t someone bring up, why doesn’t someone say well why don’t we quit, let’s get out. Lets quite spending billions of dollars every year and that’s what I’m asking in this resolution,” says the bill’s sponsor, Senator Lewis.
Currently, 190 nations are a part of the UN and to the bill sponsor's knowledge; no one has ever withdrawn their membership. The bill would simply begin the process, as Senator Lewis and several supporters pointed out, it lacks teeth as Montana can not force the U.S. to withdraw.
I'm not a big fan of the U.N., but, as long as we've got a permanent seat on the Security Council, and can veto ANYTHING we want to veto, I think we need to be there. That being said, I think that we are providing way more than our share of funding.
The fact is burnie it wouldn't survive any place else, plus it brings too much dough into the city. We can only hope that it goes bye bye. I hear Cancun is nice this time of the year.
Montana submits Bill for U.S. departure from the U.N.
