NationStates Jolt Archive

DECLARES that the U.N. and all members voting yea should pay for every resolution passed.

SUGGESTS that U.N. Members consider the costs of resolutions before they are passed.


Argument:
There are so many resolutions that have been approved and so many proposals that may be great, but they are unreasonable and very costly. One resolution is to give everyone a free college education, including textbooks and everything. If that costs $10,000 per person for one year of college in a country of 100 million people, that will have a total cost of $200,000,000,000 per year! (200 billion dollars). If that country were to have 1 billion people, that would be 1 trillion dollars per year, every year! There are other proposals that can cost that much and even more! This restricts the U.N. to countries with a huge budget surplus, which are usually countries with facist dictators. So any other country would instantly go broke, their currency would fall apart, there would be a civil war, and there would be complete choas in the world.

This is of course assuming that all those people go to college, but your point is well taken. We keep passing bills which although they have great intentions, would be economically impossible, except for perhaps the wealthiest of nations. It seems as if we're getting to the point that we'd have to take 100% of our citizens income and still wind up short. Our nation has been tempted to tell all its citizens that they will no longer be paid, but instead will recieve everything for free and only the most environmentally and child safe products and resources will be distributed to them for free.

Oh that's ridiculous. Only college age people would go, and some of them are too stupid and won't be accepted, or too smart and question my glorious regime, and need to be jailed and beaten.

We need to put people over profit. I think that ends this argument.

I note there is no resolution that mandates we fund colleges