--- On Sat, 11/22/08, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Corruption only happens in Venezuela and its Russian allies...
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, November 22, 2008, 7:11 PM
> Well there is a difference between corruption in the US and
> in Russia (and I suppose Mexico, Brazil -- most countries),
> although it isn't the kind of corruption the writer of
> this article probably had in mind. That is, corruption in
> the US is not usually directly encountered by the population
> at large.
>
> Although in Russia at least, speaking strictly anecdotally
> (i.e., the cops used to stop me all the time, but don't
> anymore), it's gotten a lot better in the past few
> years, probably connected with raising of police
> officers' salaries and a general crackdown on
> corruption, particularly among the traffic police.
>
> --- On Sat, 11/22/08, andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > From: andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Corruption only happens in
> Venezuela and its Russian allies...
> > To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> > Date: Saturday, November 22, 2008, 6:43 PM
> > I know the proposition in the header to be true for a
> fact
> > because I come from Chicago, where all the politicians
> and
> > businesspeople are pictures of integrity and white
> collar
> > criminal defense lawyers and the U.S. attorney's
> public
> > corruption dfivision just sit around playing whist
> together
> > wondering if somedfay someone will do something
> untoward.
> > (Pay not attention to the ex-Gov in jail, the cronies
> of the
> > current gov likewise, and the jaws closing around the
> gov
> > and D Mare's pals. D amRe, they ain't never
> gonna
> > get.) I am also confident that the current crisis has
> no
> > criminal element. By the way, Doug and Liza, who have
> just
> > moved to Brooklyn, offered me a part interest in a
> briodge
> > thar runs from Brooklyn to Mahnhattan and it seemed
> like a
> > good idea to me, so I plunked down my life savings onm
> it.
> >
>
>
>
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