Posted on 03/11/2010 6:51:11 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Call it the United Nations' version of spring training: the season of budgetary bracket creep has begun.
By the time it’s over, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon should have easily improved on his longstanding record as the biggest-spending U.N. secretary-general in history, by a respectable margin.
Nothing as obvious as that, of course, will be apparent this week, as the General Assembly considers a 19-page resolution entitled “Questions relating to the proposed program budget for the biennium 2010-2011.”
The resolution, an important step in the U.N.’s budgetary approval process, is larded with complaints about the lack of clarity in the current budget process, special pleading for various U.N. activities (notably, Palestinian relief efforts), and labyrinthine references to other U.N. reports.
And, tucked away in a one-page annex at the back, there is also a 220-person increase in the proposed “core” staffing of the bloated U.N. Secretariat that Ban originally announced last fall, as a model of frugality in tough economic times. It brings the “core” Secretariat staff from 10,061 to 10,281.
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In a shrinking economy, only Government grows. Arrogant, tone-deaf Government.
So when I lose my job, I can always don a blue helmet somewhere in the 3rd world?
They have diplomatic immunity from paying parking tickets.
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