Boycott United Nations Day (October 24th 2008)

gibby said:

I am think that we should make some Anti-UN tees. I'm thinking on the front. UN with a crossed out circle over it. On the back it should say "UN World Tour". Just like concert t-shirts, with all of the places that they have screwed up with dates.

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ouble-dipping, anyone?

The United Nations, with a headquarters staff of approximately 15,500, is apparently relying on a battalion of retirees to fill important vacancies. The cost of keeping codgers on its payroll to do jobs that full-time employees apparently cannot handle has soared from $33 million in 2004-2005 to $50 million in 2006-2007.

In the process, the world organization appears to have been violating its own limits on how much retirees are allowed to earn after they take a U.N. pension, and how long they can be kept on the job. Those rules were seemingly designed to prevent double-dipping by former workers, or the filling of jobs that might otherwise go to full-time staff.

But one small group of pensioners — 135 people in all — appear to have done far, far better than anyone else in breaking through the post-retirement salary ceiling. That group, consisting of higher-level professional and administrative employees, and representing little more than 10 percent of the total number surveyed, pulled in $11.4 million, or more than 20 percent of the amount spent on the growing post-retirement work force, according to an internal U.N. study on the group.


This group earned much more on average than the $22,000 annual limit that the organization places on additional U.N. earnings of those already drawing a U.N. pension. About 130 people in the group averaged nearly $40,000 a year in post-retirement income, nearly twice the U.N. limit. Another group of five persons at the assistant secretary general level averaged more than $100,000 a year atop their pensions. (Staying on the job at this level post-retirement requires the direct approval of the Secretary General.)

The U.N. study, however, does not point out the rule violation.

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Dst said:

I'm not entirely sure you can boycott a holiday, but for what it's worth I wasn't exactly planning on throwing a barbecue for the UN.

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marknakasone said:

The UN and our own citizens have and still are trying to pass a global small arms treaty. This treaty, if passed would override the Second Amendment of the United States due to a loophole in the Constitution regarding treaties.

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Super Wabbit said:

Is that the UN Arms Trade Treaty you're referring to? Anyone know a good site to keep up on potential treaties and just general happenings at the UN? Maybe something other than the UN website itself.

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marknakasone said:

The day is finally here. Post any pro-UN news articles here so we can laugh at them. Don't met me catch you celebrating UN day either. This is a sad day for America.

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Super Wabbit said:

. . . Anyone know a good site to keep up on potential treaties . . . .

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kahn said:

q. Know whats the best thing about "Blue Helmets?"

a. They have to wait for orders to shoot back.

Why boycott the UN on only one day a year? I boycott them every day of the year.

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marknakasone said:

They're not going to try this shit again?

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