As I said, the FReepers who are worried about corruption really should do some research about how blatant and obvious corruption is in 3rd World countries. I’m talking about in-your-face- bribery with money being paid for favors with the full knowledge of the authorities.
In some Latin countries, hardly any business of any kind gets done without the “mordida” (bite, bribe...”soborno” being the correct Spanish word) being paid.
We may have slipped to some extent as a country but I think that on our side at least there is still a desire to do things honestly.
We need to be vigilant to keep it that way, or to make things better.
Amen!!