As the UN wraps up its $5 MILLION remodel of the Secretary General’s personal “crib,” come now the Turtle Bay Banditos to inform a breathless world that their planned $1.9 BILLION renovation of their socialist sanctuary is, surprise, surprise – a MINIMUM of $145 MILLION over budget.
Total for their DISCLOSED renovations of their various properties: A paltry $2,053,000,000!
The U.S. shoulders around 25% of the annual tribute to this gaggle of self-aggrandizing One-World groupies. Let’s break down those numbers for the cost to the tax slaves – er – taxpayers of the United States:
$5 million remodel of Ban Ki-Moon’s digs (while he was put up in the Waldorf at nightly rates from between $380.00 to $4,000.00!): $1.25 million;
$1.9 billion rehab of their headquarters: $475 million;
$148 million PRELIMINARY cost overrun of rehab: $37 million.
Total cost to American taxpayers: $51,325,000!
Parenthetically, were we to add in the cost of the score of thousands of unpaid parking and other traffic citations and damage to the vehicles of lesser ranked denizens of NYC, it could easily run into several hundred millions.
In a rare display of organizational efficiency, the humanistic honchos at the UN have announced that the rehab will literally be carried out from top to bottom, a few floors at a time. This is, of course, to assure that the huge quantities of excreted egocentrism, bloated bureaucracy, putrefied products of pontification, rotted remnants of radical socialism and other foul substances accreted there in the 55 years they have infested the building do not overwhelm the renovation workers’ ability to haul them away and safely dispose of them in an EPA approved toxic waste landfill. They’ll probably truck it to Washington where it won’t even be noticed.
I have several money-saving suggestions for the potentates at the UN and the One-World American politicians who could, if they really understood the concept of “national sovereignty,” end this miserably failed 55 year long exercise in economic and psychic self-flagellation by shutting down the funding pipeline from Washington:
1. Urge the UN to seek other quarters – preferably in one of the Third World hellholes they are so fond of throwing in the developed world’s face while encouraging and supporting the local tyrant-du-jour and the failed economics which make them Third World hellholes in the first place;
2. Their relocated headquarters should be in some of those large tents of the sort American troops called home in such UN sponsored and run operations such as in Korea and elsewhere and in which American boys and girls are now living in that God-forsaken desert. There are, I’m sure, several large warehouses filled with these things and THIS taxpayer would be happy to DONATE them;
3. I suggest that the UN use those resources they planned to spend on prettying up their palatial pigpen to purchase grain, milk and other items and send them to the millions of men, women and children starving as a result of the UN’s tacit – and not so tacit – support of despots and corrupt economic systems causing that starvation and suffering. My guess is that the UN props up those tyrants so THEIR corruption and theft will look fairly routine by comparison.
For those of you who feel I’ve been unduly harsh on the utopian East River egomaniacs, please remember that the cockamamie goal of the United Nations is -- and has been from its inception – to organize, plan and rule the formerly sovereign nations of the world as some sort of over-arching “One World” government body.
Govern the world? They’ve had 55 years to get their act together -- and can’t even properly manage a building renovation.
I thank God every day that – except for advancing socialism and tyranny around the globe -- this bureaucratic behemoth has so far failed at virtually everything.
Here’s a question for you to ask YOUR congress critter at that next Town Hall Meeting:
“With increasing calls from citizens and some political leaders that we consign it to its well-deserved place in the dustbin of history alongside the League of Nations and with America facing potentially catastrophic economic crises in the next decade, why in the world do we continue to supply finite funds and resources to the United Nations?”
I believe it was former NY Mayor Ed Koch who once declared that he would be pleased to one day go to the dock and join the throngs of American citizens waving goodbye to the United Nations.
Ed, on that happy day, I would even put aside my long-standing pledge to NEVER visit NYC ever again just so I might stand there and wave with you.
And I might even use ALL my fingers!