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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend.... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (16037)	11/27/2005 6:35:46 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35834

Corruption is a big problem... but by no means is it the major problem at the U.N. Ever since it's founding, the General Assembly has replicated one of the big weaknesses seen in the US Senate --- over representation of small, under-populated areas. There have long been proposals to reform the UN, and the better ones (IMO), include some sort of revamp that turns the General Assembly into a proportional representation assembly --- with the amount of votes a nation receives apportioned by population. They also include proposals to create a SECOND assembly (turning the UN into a bicameral institution) where voting rights reflect the ECONOMIC POWER of various nations (say, by GNP)... with the Security Council (expanded perhaps to include a few of the emerging 'super' nations, Brazil, India, etc.) turned into more of an 'executive' branch.