Bubba
Mar 9, 2004, 12:00 PM
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Richard:
In answer to your inquiry regarding corruption.
I am a U.S. citizen who has lived as a retiree in Mexico for the past three years. Since I am retired, I need not seek official sanction for business activities so that is an issue I cannot address.
When I read your inquiry I suspect "mole" but I will answer your questions anyway.
There is a great deal of corruption in Mexico just as there is in the United States. Corruption in Mexico is less sophisticated in its execution than in the United States. You surely do understand that and understand this as well. The clown stuffing his pockets because the bribe is too voluminous to fit in his suitcase is not your true enemy. He is a decoy. The money being stolen by your true enemies does not fit in a suitcase or his pockets. That money consists of electronic transfers.
This reminds me of my youth when I was raised in a "dry" county in South Alabama. The sheriff, judges, moonshiners and bootleggers were all corrupt. It was the small time bootlegger who was always busted just before the next election to make the sheriff look good.
Let's look at some of your other points:
Scandinavia is less corrupt than Bangladesh and Nigeria. You simply cannot compare these places. Bangladesh and Nigeria are artificial colonial creations of great complexity while Scandinavia is an isolated, racially pure and inbred community. Corruption in these places takes on different forms.
Up to 15% of the cost of doing business in Mexico is "bribes" and Mexico is losing $8.5Billion a year in investment due to corruption. Hogwash! Nobody knows this. Nor does anyone know the cost of doing business in my adopted California because of an overreaching and suffocating bureacracy or an imbecilic government that allowed the corrupt Enron Corporation to suck it dry during the "energy crisis".
Well, I will tell you that I, as a foreign resident of Mexico, have never paid a centavo to any official to expidite any transaction but the State of California has screwed me more than once.
Now, Richard, tell us who you are. What is your true agenda?
Bubba
(This post was edited by Bubba on Mar 9, 2004, 12:02 PM)
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