Government corruption in the United States is hundreds of times more
pervasive and costly than in Afghanistan. Every day American newspapers
recount the scandals. One day it involves U.S. Customs officials, the
next day it is the Secret Service, then the General Services
Administration, then the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms. Every
month there are new scandals involving foreign aid and other funds
administered by the U.S. Department of State, the latest involved the
waste of billions of dollars in “global warming” funds squandered by
Assistant Secretary of State Kerri-Ann Jones and her predecessor,
Claudia A. McMurray. Despite the State Department being perhaps worst
administered agency in the Federal Government, no one dares utter even a
whisper of criticism at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, so the
corruption continues.
While billions of dollars in domestic spending and foreign aid are misappropriated, corruptly awarded and mismanaged each year, that corruption is easier to conceal, because the U.S. is a wealthy country with many distractions. Despite the publicity, few members of the public seem able to grasp the size and scope of the cancer of corruption and nepotism that is eating away at the country.
Internationally, government corruption is ranked under a flawed system established by such groups as “Transparency International.” They rank corruption in countries like Afghanistan and the United States based on subjective “perceptions” of corruption. Because the rankings are not based on the actual volume of corruption, this system unfairly maligns developing countries. If the system were based on the dollar amount of corruption, it would list many Western, Arab and Far East nations as the most corrupt.
Read more: http://kabulpress.org/my/spip.php?article120954
While billions of dollars in domestic spending and foreign aid are misappropriated, corruptly awarded and mismanaged each year, that corruption is easier to conceal, because the U.S. is a wealthy country with many distractions. Despite the publicity, few members of the public seem able to grasp the size and scope of the cancer of corruption and nepotism that is eating away at the country.
Internationally, government corruption is ranked under a flawed system established by such groups as “Transparency International.” They rank corruption in countries like Afghanistan and the United States based on subjective “perceptions” of corruption. Because the rankings are not based on the actual volume of corruption, this system unfairly maligns developing countries. If the system were based on the dollar amount of corruption, it would list many Western, Arab and Far East nations as the most corrupt.
Read more: http://kabulpress.org/my/spip.php?article120954
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