The US Hasn't Coughed Up Their Fair Share

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - "In the next decade, more than 500 million people could escape from poverty and tens of millions could avoid certain death if the United States, Japan and other rich countries kept their promises to vastly increase development aid to the world's poorest countries", a UN-sponsored report said Monday.

The report is all part of a UN programme entitled "UN Millennium Developement Goals" - check out the website.
In 1970, the world's nations agreed to provide 0.7 per cent of their gross national income for development assistance. So far, only five countries have met or surpassed the target - Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Six others have made commitments to reach the target by 2015 - Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Spain and Britain - and the report urged all developed countries to set similar timetables.
The objectives of this programme are very admirable and although the UN is trying very hard to solve world problems, it becomes apparent that their opening remarks above and the top banner of their web page (linked above) are designed in such a way that Americans are becoming less than sympathetic with a UN that they perceive as a group of scholars that sit on their duffs and little else.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan received the final report Jan 17th and thanked the more than 250 of the world’s leading development policy makers, practitioners and experts for their long hours and dedication that produced the 3,000 page report. Kofi Annan says, "It is my sincere hope that the September Summit will produce bold and far-reaching decisions, and that we can work together to put in place the building blocks for a safer, more prosperous, and a fairer world." Well, the old boy might get a bit of a startle in September when the nations he tries to embarrass with his 'web design' and 'opening statements' bite back and tell him to rub salt. (This writer was thinking something else other than 'rub salt')

Nobody with a grain of conscience would turn their back on a starving child, nor would they not contribute in some manner to fight the diseases that are killing so many unfortunates around the world, as is the case in Africa. There is no need to use 'the embarrassment card' to better off nations, and I fear that this approach just may be the final straw with the Americans.
Americans are tired of being blamed for anything that goes amiss anywhere in the world, and quite frankly I'm tired of seeing it too.
I wonder how long the lease is for the UN building that sits on prime real estate on Manhattan?