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January 03, 2005
UN-Necessary
While the US and Australia try to get vital supplies to the stricken, the UN holds conferences to try to get more credit and a bigger piece of the action.
Call it the Misery Tax. If anyone's suffering anywhere in the world, the UN is ready, willing, and able to take other people's money and distribute it, so long as they all get to dip their beaks.
It's a public service, you see. Kofi Annan's thousand-dollar suits don't just buy themselves, you know.