The Wall Street Journal reported today that the UN's Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon's final budget request totals 25% more than last year. Wow, that is quite a spending increase. Of course there are many needs around the world such as providing relief to Darfur.
Unfortunately 75% of the increases are for salaries to expand the UN's bureaucracy, and not to helping the world's people. This would constitute the single largest funding increase in the UN's history. And the UN has still not implemented all of the reforms specified by Paul Volcker's report after the corruption of the oil for food scandal.
For an organization that accomplishes so little, that is rich.
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