Posted on 06/02/2004 9:03:40 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
The US pays 22% of the UN's core budget. I take it they're gonna ask for more? I've got an idea. Why don't they just take it out of their Oil For Food slush fund? Heaven knows, that would cover it.
I gots a great idea! Let's build a bigger, more impressive UN building. In Zimbabwe.
Nope. You wouldn't wanna be in any of those rooms when any o them beams come outta them transfermers.
Nothing a few bulldozers can't fix.
Yup. Downtown Harare. Hey, most of the delegates would feel right at home in a corrupt land ruled by a despot.
"UN officials say the building is not dangerous"
They're correct.
It's the people in it that are dangerous.
I'm thinking that we need big 'ol pyrotechnic show like the one they did out in Vegas for that old hotel (can't remember which one).
You could get rich selling tickets.
Better not go outdoors. Better avoid TV and radio. Stay out of the city. The city has electromagnetic rays everywhere. Better put the UN on the dark side of the moon. Put it underground on the dark side of the moon because the sun and the universe shower the surface of the moon with electromagnetic rays even at night.
We can use what went off in Ryongchon, N. Korea. A kind of an instant neighborhood renewal project.
Build them a new building... in Siberia! And move those sorry bastards out of this country.
"..........systems also date back half a century and have gone well beyond their useful life."
Just like the UN, it has exceeded its useful life by about 49 years.
Cheers!
Those SOBs stole more than enough from the IRAQ Oil-for-Food scam to pay for the renovations & displacement costs.
But no, the U.S. taxpayers will foot almost all of the costs via no-interest, long-term loans.
Rather than spend billion rennovating the building move it to another country. How about Iraq? or Cuba?
I've suggested Port-au-Prince before.
Close enough to keep an eye on, out of our hair, and would add some economic diversity to the Caribbean.
For $1.2B I think we could biuld a bigger and better building somewhere else. Like in Europe, Africa or Asia. Anywhere as long as we get them the hell out of the U.S.
Looks like any office building over 10 years old. Tell 'em to budget for repairs. Syria should be able to help!
Oh, wait, I know....how about the new Palestinian state? They could use the economic boost and that way the UN could oversee the peace process up close and personal.
Have to pick a financial guy.
George Soros is the man. If he can't clean it, no one can.
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