We have almost same level of corruption as Mexico & 3d world countries

[BigBearJohn]

How long before we match them? or have we already?

[mattclearing]

1. Almost? You're damned right we have already.

Actually, we're way worse. When was the last time you heard of a Mexican or third world country's contractor losing SIX BILLION DOLLARS?

Edit: And never find it, and never be held accountable?

[gratuitous]

2. Bush takes these comments as a personal challenge, you know

While he may be an overprivileged ne'er-do-well, he chafes at even the hint that he is an underachiever. If people think his administration isn't as corrupt and incompetent as some banana republic well, he'll show them!

I think the country has just about reached the limit of what it can handle from this misadministration.

[blm]

3. 3rd world dictators are amateurs next to the Bush Family Evil Empire

They can only dream and ASPIRE to the levels of corruption and evil reached by BushInc.

[malaise]

4. Actually you have way more

because you have more resources.

[Cleita]

5. Sorry, but we have topped them.

I'll bet even Ismelda Marcos is impressed.

[shoelace414]

6. 3rd world corruption is small potatoes.

We have REAL corruption.

[Ganja Ninja]

7. This is the big leagues compared to the third world.

Just look at the money Halliburton is stealing in Iraq.

[tabasco]

8. The dollar amounts and the damage due to republican corruption

make the Mexicans look like pikers.

Mexico has not invaded anybody lately or killed 100,000 innocents due to corruption. The USA has done just that.

[firefox]

9. No

We are a rogue nation that exports corruption to third world countries and they may well be a third world country because our corruption went to their borders to get their resources and guide their goverment.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. I hate to disapoint you the level of corruption in the US makes

Mexican cronyism look honest

[spinbaby]

11. Cronyism is what will bring them down

We've always known about it, but now, on display for all the world to see, is the disaster caused by the incompentents appointed because they were cronies.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

12. Bushco is thoroughly as...

...corrupt. The next thing we're going to see from Bushco is a very aggressive (perhaps brutal) effort to repress political dissent. Some will be bought, and some will be intimidated into silence. Others will have accidents, disappear, or be openly made examples of. Things are going to get very bad.

[ReaderSushi]

13. Your joking right?

How many 3rd world nations are capable of drastically altering the calculus of global geostrategy? Or risk plunging us all into a second Great Depression by destabalizing the oil flows of the Middle East? Not to mention being responsible for a quarter of the worlds pollution.

Not that corruption is something that can be quantified but due to our sheer power, political, economic, social and military, any corruption at all on our parts is going to have a much more detrimental effect on a wider scale.

Sorry if I sound like I'm preaching at you but I grew up outside the US and I know what can happen when the US decides to flex a little muscle. It's just frustrating being inside it and not being able to influence it in an meaningful way.

[BigBearJohn]

14. Thank you. You are all helping me make my point.