The United Nations, which celebrates its 70th birthday in October, is a disaster, compounded by tragedy. Incompetence, hypocrisy, and waste are its watchwords. Here are seven reasons the United Nations should be giving you dyspepsia.

1. Inhuman Rights: The Human Rights Commission membership is made up of some of the worst human rights violators around the globe. Among the offenders: Pakistan, China and Venezuela. In China, where authoritarian rule remains the norm, activist Cao Shunli died in detention in 2014 after she was denied medical care — although seriously ill — until the final days of her life, when she went into a coma.

Her ironic infraction: She tried to attend a 2013 national human rights review of China put on by the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. She “disappeared” at the airport trying to catch her flight. Meanwhile, Xi Jinxing, China’s president, pledged to the U.N. on Sunday to “reaffirm our commitment to gender equality and women’s development.”

2. Crisis response debacles: The U.N.’s response to humanitarian crises has been repeatedly worthless. Not surprising, since with an archaic power structure forged in the 1940s, the global body is now “bloated,” “underfunded” and “overwhelmed,” according to the Associated Press. Recent failures include the handling of the Ebola outbreak in Africa, and the ongoing refugee crises in Syria, topped off with allegations of sexual abuse by U.N. peacekeeping troops. U.N. resolutions are not binding, except from the five-member Security Council — which doesn’t often agree — where there is jockeying for power and stagnation.

Stewart Patrick, who directs the Council on Foreign Relations program on international institutions and global governance, told the AP that many government members view the U.N. “as a spoils system” that gives jobs to those who are politically connected. He was not optimistic about reforms. “It may take something along the lines of an existential crisis or something as horrific as nuclear use or dramatic deterioration in the world’s climate, with potentially catastrophic cascading effects,” he said.

3. Uncle Sam at your service: The United States disproportionately funds the U.N. compared to other countries. As its largest contributor, the U.S. is having a hard time discerning its bang for its buck these days, some note. Wrote journalist Claudia Rosett in 2014 on the website, theTower.org: “It’s no secret, of course, that the U.S. plays chief sugar daddy to the UN. But it’s easy to lose sight of just how egregiously this system abuses the generosity of American taxpayers and takes painful advantage of American good will.”

She added of the disparity: “Among the UN’s 193 member states, the U.S. pays for 22 percent of the General Assembly’s regular budget, and more than 28 percent of peacekeeping — in both cases the highest rate of any member state. And traditionally, the U.S. has bankrolled roughly 25 percent of the much larger, overall UN system.”

What does Russia pay? Or China? Less than the U.S., while still having the same power.

4. Honk if you like the UN! The U.N. makes New York’s traffic problems worse. And no one seems to try harder. When the U.N. convenes each year for the weeklong General Assembly meeting, a “gridlock warning” is issued. For Eastsiders, and those moving around midtown, this year’s papal disruption added to the traffic woes, which the mayor said the city could handle. Residents were told to take public transportation. Many streets are closed. Some are down to one lane. All so some of the worst despots in the world can attend the General Assembly.

5. Pay your tickets people: As of September 2014, there was $16 million in unpaid parking tickets from U.N. diplomatic officials from 180 countries, according to the Wall Street Journal. Top offenders: Egypt, with 17,499 summons worth $1.97 million; Nigeria with 7,638 summons worth more than $890,000; and Indonesia with 6,011 worth more than $738,000.

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While the city has in the past looked the other way on these fines, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to collect during his tenure in the city and had some success. He reached out to the U.S. State Department, asking them to surrender license plates or decline registration renewal for those who were repeat ticket offenders.

6. Zzzzzz… Talk about the pompous, rhetoric-laden speeches. Is anyone listening? (Even US Secretary of State John Kerry was bored; Cameras caught him yawning in the middle of President Obama’s speech on Monday.) It’s typically all flash, no cash for most who step up to speak about intentions — described in varied media accounts as often both “dumb” and “delusional” — only to return home and rarely follow through.

Noted Al Jazeera’s Chris Arsenault in a 2013 story: “Speeches at the diplomatic equivalent of Hollywood’s Oscars are normally sombre, pre-scripted affairs where leaders spout platitudes about inclusion, poverty reduction, the need for world peace and other non-controversial topics. Fiery rhetoric, bombastic accusations and strange conspiracy theories are quite rare — an unfortunate fact for the low-level diplomats who have to endure hours of pointless pontificating from various heads of state.”

7. Big money for bureaucrats. Pay for many who work at the U.N. is executive-level compensation, even as the budget there is strained. U.N. employees working in New York also pay no income taxes. The top annual gross salary for the highest category of U.N. employee in 2015 was more than $191,000.

The U.N. notes of setting its pay rate: “The level of salaries for Professional staff is determined on the basis of the Noblemaire Principle which states that the international civil service should be able to recruit staff from its Member States, including the highest-paid. Therefore, the salaries of Professional staff are set by reference to the highest-paying national civil service. The International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) makes a periodic check to identify the national civil service of the Member State which has the highest pay levels and which by its size and structure lends itself to a significant comparison. The federal civil service of the United States of America has to date been taken as the highest paid national civil service.”

Nice work if you can get it.