There's plenty of corruption in the USA ... ever look into what its 'Commerce' department is doing right now to British Columbia? ... well to Canada as a nation technically, and it does affect Québec as well, and other provinces to some extent, but mostly it's about a bunch of well-greased lobbyists in control of a federal arm of the US and out to stick it to BC to enrich their timber baron puppetmasters down in the slave states ... here - ca.news.yahoo.com
Difference in México is that it's been more open, more honest ... and quite rightly more user-pay in many cases - when you handed the clerk in the palacio de gobierno 'algo pa' tu refresco' he/she got a living wage for that hour, and you got your papelito all stamped nice and quick ... it was a working system, and when that became politically incorrect the change cut the clerk's income below the poverty line and he/she was no longer motivated nearly as well to expedite your dilemma du jour with the papeleo .... that's not a complaint, just an observation, i do applaud the change and am well able to adapt, but there was something very human about the old way and something disturbingly machine-like about the new, in its first years anyway ... an awkwardness, a mutual paranoia that wasn't there before, a wall between people
That's a level distinct from the one you're talking about, of course ... the Raulitos, hey guarantee me impunity and i'll not only take care of the problem, i'll supply my own machete
But right now i'd like to nominate as morons all US federal tax-payers who permit their funds and their government to be used in such a manner as their Kommerzwaffe is doing presently against BC. |
