Labor Relations UN Style

Labor unions and the UN are my two least favorite organizations. Apparently the unions at the UN walked out and the diplomats, in their zeal to prove that they are equal to everyone else, proceeded to loot the cafeterias and bars of the UN headquarters. The losses are being estimated somewhere between $7,000 and $9,000.

And these are the same guys that many of our "allies" want to put in charge of Iraq? They can't control themselves in New York, how we can really expect them to behave properly in Baghdad? Or am I to understand that one person's thief is another person's wealth redistributionist?

I do love the horrors described in the article:

Kofi Annan, who had a private lunch previously scheduled with the members of the Security Council in the Delegates Dining Room, found they were only served the main course. After that, they were on their own — no desserts, no cleanup, no coffee for Kofi.

Starving kids in God only knows how many countries around the world, and Kofi gets no coffee. Millions of people living without adequate sanitation and Kofi has no one to clean up after him.

I say that we let the UN attempt to run its own nation as soon as it can run its own headquarters. Oil for food failed and now so has vacation time for food. What a track record!