Do you know which countries owe the most to the UN?!
- The third place goes for Germany who owes $86,000,000;
- The second place belongs to Japan, the country of new industries, who owes $247,000,000;
- And surely you can guess who has hit the first place: the United States of America! The debt is as much as $784,000,000. Something about 3 times more than the second place holder, Japan!
The largest amount of debt to UN belongs to the country which has spent $437,944,754,578 on Iraq war since 2003, and the government has asked Congress (and recently took the approval) for more $200,000,000,000.
US national priorities project reported on June 2007 that (regardless to that newly approved $200 Billion) this budget, instead of war, could be spent for:
262,241,387 children to be insured for one year,
7,589,635 public school teachers to be hired for one year,
Or 3,943,281 houses to be built.
It could be nice to know that the president whose government has started the war, had won only 24.5% of the votes in presidential elections!