Sunday, October 27, 2002

Your Tax Dollars at Work Alert!
Douglas Feiden reveals in the NY Daily News that Foreigners hit jackpot at UN:
Imagine an employer who subsidizes up to 40% of your rent - as much as $13,000 in annual housing costs.

Then imagine the boss gives you more than $17,000 a year to pay for your child's private education - for 20 years.

Among other fringes, you receive a "children's allowance" - $1,936 per child annually - for up to six offspring.

But, alas, it's still expensive to live in New York City. So the company awards you a 41% cost-of-living adjustment on top of your six-figure base salary.

For most of us, that is only a pipe dream. But foreign nationals working for the UN in the United States can score all these goodies - and more.

Highly compensated and pampered with perks and privileges, thousands of international civil servants are savoring the good life at UN headquarters in Turtle Bay.

And when they retire and go home after wrestling with global woes, the UN turns hundreds of them into pension millionaires...

UN brass say their benefits package must be competitive to assure high standards for staff.
And they're doing such a swell job too!