Posted on 06/02/2004 9:03:40 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
But Siberia has very few expensive gourmet restaurants. You're too cruel!
Or Yemen. (Also, Syria's nice this time of year...)
Um, yeah. Tell you what, Catherine, could you give us some examples of that important work you folks are doing?
I have a thousand shares of Webb and Knapp, the firm that built the UN.
Just like the UN they are now worthless.
The U.N. needs to be moved to the capital of cesspooldom in frogland, where the fecal floaters will appear normal.
I vote for Rwanda. I consider Rwanda a symbol of the effectiveness of the UN.
now THERE's a great idea!
Agreed. I say demolish it, send the UN bureaucrats packing to their natural home -- Brussels or one of the other centers of Euro pretentions to international government. Put a park and memorial to OUR Cold War victory on the site.
Maybe a little bit of overkill there. I'd hate to see some UN bureaucrat's desk fly through my Uncle's roof - IN QUEENS! 8^)
We should replace the current structure with a circus tent. They can keep the show going for as long as they can sell popcorn and hotdogs.
No sympathy here. I work in a downtown building that's 70 to 85 years old depending on which part of the building you're talking about. And yet somehow, my relatively small company keeps finding the money to keep this old place looking nice, functioning mechanically, and a suitable place for three hundred employees to work. The HVAC works great through the worst of a South Carolina summer, the toilets flush, the lights stay on, the asbestos has all been removed. All in a building with cornerstones that say "1921" and "1934," and that's built so strong it's still considered an emergency shelter (and in fact sheltered employees during Hurricane Hugo).
The UN could've easily replaced those "crumbling" HVAC and electrical systems piecemeal years ago instead of waiting until things got critical and then begging US for over a billion dollars. But they were too busy using that money to line their own pockets and work for the destruction of the US and Israel, so they could come back to us and scream "You need to give us more money! It's for the starving chillllrun!"
Eff 'em. Let them get their $1.2b out of Kofi Annan's Oil-For-Food slush fund. Call it "Oil for Asbestos Removal."
Better yet, it's a perfect opportunity for them to just get the hell out of the United States and move to Switzerland. I'm sure that that building could be turned into some prime office space to replace the WTC, for a lot less than the $1.2b they think it'll take to renovate it into their One World Palace.
}:-)4
As if Haiti doesn't have enough problems...8^)
Seriously, the 18 acres of land that the UN sits on is worth, what, $200-400 million. They could buy some good land outside of Paris, France, by the airport and build a new facility for so much less than building a temporary NYC structure, then rebuilding the UN over 5-6 years. Start building a permanent new facility in Europe today and move permanently in 18 months.
That reminds me...weren't the Yankees talking about a new stadium?
and beer. you left out beer.
Why not just move the UN to one of Saddam's billion dollar palaces in Iraq?
The UN is looking for $1.2bn for a complete renovation. UN officials are taking politicians, journalists and diplomats on a so-called "dirty tour" of the worst affected areas to see how bad the situation really is.
It's called "mainenance", look into it.
"See how poorly we kept this building up? Help us build a new one."
Same problem cited by school systems with a surplus of funds (yeah, but that money is for a rainy day).
Even the UN building inspector appears to be blind.
The author has an impressive resume, but she's hooking her column for a private tour of the UN building.
The average houshold in America will pay ~$9 for this, if not repaid as a loan. Even that is too much to give to these criminals. I feel like I'm getting shaken down.
Just a small portion of recovered Food for Oil dirty money could pay for this. Prosecute the criminals in abstentia in a friendly court in the US, and use the settlement to pay for the remodeling, or send them to Haiti, the Haitians need the boost to their economy.
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