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.
"UN officials say the building is not dangerous"
They're correct.
It's the people in it that are dangerous.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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