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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (721901)	1/16/2006 4:24:55 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Human rights would be a better metric than GDP." GDP is easier to measure though.... (There have long been calls to reform the UN --- or else to invent some new institution to take it's place if it refuses to reform --- to introduce representation by ECONOMIC STRENGTH [GNP could be a yardstick for that], and proportional representation according to POPULATION [like the US House of Representatives], so that the whole thing wouldn't be UNICAMERAL and over-representing tiny small areas like the US Senate does.) The Security Council (the security/military wing of the UN, acting with an Executive branch's veto power) could also naturally evolve to add a few more big powers and or nuclear powers....