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Originally Posted by Michael Romanos
Peggy - The USA pays affliiation fees to hundreds and hundreds of international organisations including dog related international organisations. You are either an isolationist or you think that 'the buck stops' at the borders of the good ol USA.
It doesn't matter which USA organisation pays annual fees/dues to an international organisation - it basically affiliates the USA to that organisation. It's just common sense I would have thought.
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This is merely semantics and probably not worth arguing over. But the way you have worded this would make a lot of Americans disagree with you.
When you use USA as a noun, as in "The USA pays fees...", most of us interpret USA as "the country", i.e. the USA government pays. Government of course gets the money from every taxpayer. The government does not give our tax money to dog organizations. Although we could argue that that would be a better use of funds than many of the government programs that the USA does in fact fund. LOL
When you use USA as an adjective, as in "The USA Dog Agility Group pays fees to an International Agility Group.", you get pretty much no argument. That then, does affiliate the USA Dog Agility Group to the USA (not the other way around).
It is common sense, but the way you have worded your comments, most Americans would argue with you. Just the way we interpret the usage of "USA".