I'll try to use it in conversation. I know people will think I mean something related to this:
Posted on 06/15/2006 7:19:03 AM PDT by seasoned traditionalist
The United Nations is under increasing attack by critics in the United States and other countries. At the heart of the organization's mounting problems is an almost total lack of accountability, which gives rise to suspicions of wholesale corruption. Existing evidence indicates that corruption and mismanagement go beyond the routine fraud, waste, and abuse of resources that mark all public-sector enterprises
Available evidence coupled with the United Nations' unwillingness to undergo a thorough audit raise serious questions about its mission and the means used to carry it out.
(Excerpt) Read more at cato.org ...
"Apparatchik" for the Communist/Socialist/Far-Left Hate-America countries is more like it.
Do we have ANY Conservative candidates who have the internal fortitude to make this an issue this November?
Thought so.
Long read, but worth it.
Few more exceprts, which goes to prove: "The more things change . . . . ."
"The United Nations is in dire need of reform, starting with a comprehensive, independent audit. Even if a complete audit were performed, however, there is no guarantee anything would be done about the problems identified. And radical change may not be possible, no matter how obvious the need. Given all the earlier, failed attempts to put things right, even on a limited basis, optimism about meaningful reform may be an exercise in wishful thinking.
Since the Third World majority took control of the United Nations and its budget, total UN employment has ballooned from 1,500 to more than 50,000 worldwide. The latter figure does not include the nearly 10,000 consultants or the peacekeeping forces, which at their height in 1993 numbered some 80,000. No exact figure on total employment including consultants--the hiring of consultants is a popular and much-abused practice at the United Nations--can be given. That is because until 1994 there was no central, computerized list of personnel. Even today there are no records of many appointments in the Secretariat
The salary and benefits packages of UN employees based in New York City are incredibly lucrative. Statistics compiled in 1995 revealed that the average annual salary for a midlevel accountant at the United Nations was $84,500. The salary for a comparable position in non-UN businesses and agencies was $41,964. A UN computer analyst could expect to receive $111,500 compared to $56,836 paid counterparts outside the UN bureaucracy. An assistant secretary general received $190,250; the mayor of New York City was paid $130,000.[19] The raw figures do not convey the extent of the disparity, however, since the salaries of UN employees are free of all taxes. In addition to their bloated salaries, UN bureaucrats enjoy an array of costly perks, including monthly rent subsidies of up to $3,800 and annual education grants (also tax-free) of $12,675 per child. The UN pension program is so generous that entry-level staffers whose pay rises only as fast as inflation can retire in 30 years with $1.8 million
But it is not numbers alone that should be of concern. There is the question of quality of personnel. Unlike the old League of Nations, the United Nations has never developed a well-trained international civil service. By nearly all accounts, a very few men and women struggle to do most of the real work. The rest are time servers whose sloth is reputed to be of mythic proportions."
Does anyone believe there are more than just a handful of people here who knew what 'miasma' meant? I had to look it up. Great word.
Good thing google brings it up as the dictionary word of the day.
*SIGH*
The UN is a standing and VERY public fraud on the free world. Too bad that small and vulnerable countries have their UN experience as the rule for their first, and possibly only, view of free world diplomacy and great power interaction.
Wrong cesspool.
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Thanks,
I'll try to use it in conversation. I know people will think I mean something related to this:
"time servers whose sloth is reputed to be of mythic proportions"
I can see how you might get confused;)
Not this."
Sorry about that.
My first Post.
Feel free to move it to wherever it belongs/should be.
A trick if you thread gets moved, check what forum it is in, after awhile you will know all the subcategories and can update it by just hitting topics and adding it manually. Im gonna pop this in a couple topics. news and crime/corruption
You'll get the knack of it in no time, thanks for posting this. ;-)
Thanks. Will try.
Ooh Rah! to you too, from an ol Fly Boy Vet.
You ain't kidding :)
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