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| Czech president tells UN to stay out of economics |
| 2010-09-27 |
| The Czech Republic seems to come up with consistently good presidents. Maybe we could hire one of them for our country? [Reuters] Czech President Vaclav Klaus on Saturday criticized U.N. calls for increased "global governance" of the world's economy, saying the world body should leave that role to national governments. The Oyster Bay Chowder & Marching Society can't manage peacekeeping operations without diddling children, has perpetuated the Paleostinian "refugee crisis" into its third or fourth generation, and generally screws up everything it touches. That doesn't seem like a good argument in favor of "increased world governance." In fact, it seems like a good argument in favor of trading it in on a dog and shooting the dog. The solution to dealing with the global economic crisis, Klaus told the U.N. General Assembly, did not lie in "creating new governmental and supranational agencies, or in aiming at global governance of the world economy." The thought of the U.N. controlling a flood of international tax dollars/rubles/euros/yuan/yen/drachmas makes a zombie invasion look good. "On the contrary, this is the time for international organizations, including the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society, to reduce their expenditures, make their administrations thinner, and leave the solutions to the governments of member states," he said. ... who might have a better idea of what their citizens need, and even if they don't can keep solutions like Zimbabwe localized rather than imposing them worldwide. Klaus appeared to be responding to the address of the Swiss president of the General Assembly, Joseph Deiss, who said on Thursday at the opening of the annual gathering of world leaders in New York that it was time for the United Nations to "comprehensively fulfill its global governance role." Bet that caused the world body to twitch. Deiss suggested the world body should get more involved in economic and financial issues and not leave them solely in the hands of forums like the Group of 20 club of key developed and developing nations. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 ... the Swiss president of the General Assembly, Joseph Deiss, who said on Thursday at the opening of the annual gathering of world leaders in New York that it was time for the United Nations to "comprehensively fulfill its global governance role." That's why the Swiss waited till 2002 to join, by a very narrow margin, even with the UN operating a good number of offices in Geneva since the assumption of the old League of Nations based there. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-09-27 10:50 |
| #1 If I recall correctly, Vaclav Klaus is a trained economist. His predecessor, Vaclav Havel, was a published playwright and anti-Soviet dissident. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-09-27 09:16 |