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To: attila hooper who wrote (24702)11/2/2007 1:07:11 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 217742
 
One of the reasons poorer countries are more vocal about their politicians' backroom deals is because there's a limited amount of money to go around.

In richer countries, because there's a lot of money going around, everyone is a stakeholder. There's incentive to keep mum, neither rock the boat nor blow the whistle. You have always something to lose. In a poor country you’ve got not much to lose then you speak loud about your leadership.

Obviously if people are smug they are not vocal about their own government.

Germany is a case in point where there's never a reform. Any point of the system you touch, you hit a stake holder special interest. Thus calcifies the system.

I'm not saying there is or there is not, I am saying, how we should look at the system ad be able to see what it is there but it is not clear cut
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