The UN: Obama's Money Pit
Claudia Rosett, Forbes | October 31, 2008
With its dubiously opaque financial practices, “chronic scandals and tyrant-friendly tilt,” the UN is in dire need of reform. ++ While McCain proposes a League of Democracies to provide competition, Obama wants to impose serious oversight on the UN, although previous attempts at such have fizzled. ++ Along with espousing the Millennium Development Goals, he wants the UN to play a larger role in US foreign policy and give it up to $300bn over the next four years. ++ The UN looks like an Obama fan who is eagerly awaiting some “wealth-spreading.”
