by Peggy Molloy

Created on: July 18, 2007   Last Updated: August 01, 2011

The UN has no reputation to recover. The Oil For Food Scandal is just the tip of the iceberg.

Let's put a UN building, with all its resources, in the middle of Pakistan...I'm tired of paying for these male-chauvinist, bureaucratically-laden, fake executives with my federal tax dollars. Why can't the UN have a revolving home, put more responsibility on the people who are benefiting from the generosity of our country, take a crack at being a host! Why does the US always take the burden for change, financially, and then take all the criticism because the team players won't play by the rules.

To me, the UN is ridiculously inept. It's like taking the local church group, all well-intended and conscientious souls, and putting them in the middle of a gang war in L.A. They just don't have the cruelty factor worked out. The world is cruel
in many ways, in many places, and I don't believe taking high ideals into certain circumstances is effective, sorry.

The world is changing and we have to change with it. At the time the UN was created, we were much more isolated and wealthy. We didn't have a burgeoning debt, and we weren't competing with China and India for human capital. We didn't have an international threat called Terrorism to also be paying our way out of, (hopefully) and we didn't have the medical expenses ripping us all off in such a magnanimous fashion as we do today. Why are we responsible for cleaning up the world's pollution?

The UN is a dinosaur that we cannot afford. It was a nice idea when we all lived in Mayberry, I wish that we all still could do so.

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