mcg wrote:
I'm not suggesting that they are blameless (though I would place more of the blame on government in this case), just that this is not the glaring indictment against capitalism that other posters seem to imply.
How else are we to read, "So what?" If you are not suggesting that they are blameless, you are certainly suggesting that their blame merits no corrective action. Hypocrisy of the lowest order.
And what of, " I would place
more of the blame on government in this case?" Bribery and the receiving of bribes are not sanctioned or authorized by government--they are actions that tend to the undermining of government.
To my mind this is not a glaring indictment of capitalism--it is a glaring indictment of the "small government" movement.
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--James