No Change For The Dirty Bubble

Talk about a moronic convergence. At the same time that illegal aliens are mobilizing to mau-mau the American citizenry into making permanent de facto reparations for the Mexican War, "a bloc of Third World nations" have scuttled the massive reforms proposed and pushed by our tireless Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton.

Why, you may ask? Okay, everybody knows why, but how did they express their, um, blockage?

[T]he proposed changes would give too much power to "rich" nations and, according to the UN Ambassador from South Africa, would violate "the right of every member state to have an equal say in the decision making of this organization."

The "rich" nations are the ones, of course, who pay the UN's profligate bills. That would include America, to the tune of a quarter of Turtle Bay's brontosaurus-sized piggy bank. I seem to recall a principle that the one who pays the bills generally gets to call the shots - you know, those who take responsibility are entitled to wield it. A concept that is not so much anethema to the "bloc of Third World nations" as it is, well, alien. So ingrained is their entitlement mentality, and so blind have they become to it, that they declare their "right" to screw over the "First" World at its own expense like it was akin to breathing. Small wonder that Big John described that den of thieves as....

....like a bubble. It is like a twilight zone. Things that happen here don't reflect the reality in the rest of the world. There are practices, attitudes and approaches here that were abandoned thirty years ago in much of the rest of the world. It's like a time warp."

In a word, socialism, a religion whose brain died decades ago but whose extremities still haven't gotten the message yet - or would have if the "First" World wouldn't keep giving it financial transfusions. That's why outposts like the UN still exist, and engage in "reforms" like changing a single word in the title of its "Human Rights" entity and making Iran vice-chairman of its Disarmament Commission, but nothing that would - what's the phrase I'm looking for? - actually reform the bloody place.

The America-hating bloc of nations doesn't want all UN members to have an equal say; they want to have all the "say" for themselves and make us pay for it. They want to be as nationalist as they want to be, practicing hardball power politics on the world stage, without earning the clout to do so. They think superpower-dom is an entitlement to which we are not entitled.

Well, I say more power to them. Let them have all the say in making decisions for the UN. But without American funding. Zip, zero, nada. Not one thin dime.

Yeah, that's not exactly a novel right-wing suggestion. But the House passed something in that neighborhood last year, reviving the late Jesse Helms' heroic stand against continued U.S. subsidizing of an "international" entity brazenly inimical to its own interests. And it would be sooooo much fun to watch how fun it would be for "Third World" nations to make decisions for an organization as financially bankrupt as it already is intellectually and morally.