I recently made a list. It’s a list that has been in my head for dozens of years, but only recently I decided to commit to writing in order to see just how much it had grown.

It isn’t a list of things to buy, in fact it’s a list designed to save money. It’s a list of things that are good for me as an American, as a taxpayer, and as a sentient human with a conscience.

When I was in college, people who talked about global government and whispered conspiratorially about black helicopters were thought of as looneys. They had drunk too much conservative Kool-Aid and should be sidelined. Their sense that the United Nations had overstepped its mandate and was encroaching onto our daily lives could not possibly be correct.

I’m older now. Those looneys made some good points back in the day. Count me among the global government skeptics.

Back to my list. The list I made is full of acronyms, each one corresponds to an international organization. The alphabet soup of UN agencies is designed to obscure the nature of what those agencies’ mandates are. What I have learned over the decades is that the world of the United Nations and its web of agencies and affiliates is mobilized in ways that serve to enrich a small cadre of corrupt international bureaucrats and to deplete American coffers.

America is the most generous country in the history of the world. Full stop. We give willingly and graciously to those in need. We feel the pain of........

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