Schumer Says U.N. Building Is a Danger

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According to this article in today's New York Sun (link) the UN needs badly to be refurbished and reconstructed. In my opinion, Senator Charles Schumer, Democratic Senator from New York (and heretofore a staunch supporter of Israel) is asking the wrong question. The questions should be:

1. How do we ensure the building's and UN's rapid demise;
   
2. How do we ensure that the Ambassadors from the US, Canada, Israel, Australia, UK and other worthwhile countries are not inside, but the pond scum that jet sets on their countries' meager resources while their people die of horrid diseases are inside; and
   
3. How should the US, Japan, Canada and other countries spend the moneys freed up from supporting dictators, murderers and thieves.
   

The question should not be how the rebuilding of the UN is funded; it should be whether to fund an orderly implosion of the structure, or let it tumble down, while in full use and full of some of the world's most wicked and depraved people.

If you read the article, you'll see that even the rebuilding effort will be the target of greedy politicians sent to the UN on cushy budgets, to spend time in New York rather than such garden spots as Kinshasa, Zaire. Excertps below:

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Schumer Says U.N. Building Is a Danger

By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN Staff Reporter of the Sun

The deteriorating condition of the United Nations headquarters should be a source of concern for firefighters and Turtle Bay residents who might be exposed to asbestos in the event of an emergency at the U.N.,Senator Schumer said.

At a news conference yesterday, Mr. Schumer pledged to ask Secretary-General Annan and America’s U.N.ambassador, John Bolton, to focus their attention on guiding to completion a plan to renovate the U.N.’s landmark building. The plan will cost an estimated $1.9 billion.

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U.N. efforts to go forward with the renovations suffered a serious setback in May when the project head, Louis Frederic Reuter, quit his post. In June, the investigative office of Congress, the Government Accountability Office, released a report that cast doubts on whether the U.N.’s internal watchdogs were capable of ensuring that the renovations were accomplished without waste.