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human rights. >> we may a lot of money and now they're criticizing us? >> we don't pay a lot of money, brenda to the u.n. we pay 20% of the u.n.'s budget. 20% for crying out loud. plus they rack up the tabs in that part of new york like crazy. the amount of unpaid parking stuff there. $3 billion a year, brenda. i would counter from she said. it always sounds good the federal reserve, you have this pie in the sky, the peacekeeping troops. then you get to the reality that john said. you have a corrupt organization that supposedly is charged with enforceing all these moral ethics. they're inept after it and causing us a foreign. i think we should send it to haiti and we can visit. >> do we have a reason to cut funding to the u.n.? >> no. first of all, every country with human rights violation wasn't
they have some reasonable things they're complaining about, the contract and the critique from de blasio. but is a work stoppage the way to get what they want? >> i wouldn't clarify it as a work stoppage. i don't think it's enough evidence per se. maybe a slowdown but these two officers that got shot -- >> let's call it a slowdown. >> two officers got shot responding to a robbery in progress shows police officers are still doing their jobs. they might not be doing those broken windows type theory things, which still count as arrests. for instance, the urinating in public, the drinking in public those kond count as arrests under the criminal court, some of this. >> what i don't understand about this is the traffic and parking stuff. you've had a 94% decline it traffic violations. police wait for backup before getting into situations with violent criminals and stuff like that. i don't understand concerns about safety could be the driver of handing out fewer speeding tickets and fewer parking tickets. aren't we right to look at that and say that's a work stoppage aimed at reducing city revenue and putting political pressure on the mayor?
time, which in my experience it usually was, it will let you shimmy back and forth. martha: so it was or wasn't right, did it get it perfect? >> just about every time. martha: here's the big question now. cars taking over and doing things on their own, in the toyota age that we're living in makes people a little nervous. i'm afraid i'm going to be driving down the road and it's suddenly going to parallel park in something that's not a spot. >> this particular one makes you work the gas and brake pedal and i'm sure the lawyers have a lot to do with that, so it's really the steering that's taken over. it has electrically powered steering like a lot of cars do today. no reports of it taking off on its own on the highway. martha: i remember many, many, many years ago when i took my driving test, that was the thing i had the most anxiety about, the parallel parking stuff. i'm actually very good at it now. so can you use this in a driving test? >> that's a good question. in new jersey, the parallel parking was the pain part -- the main part of the parking test. martha: me too!