Monday, November 06, 2006

U.S. is twentieth most corrupt nation on Earth

From CNN.com:
Berlin-based corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI) ranks 163 countries based on perceived levels of corruption among public officials and politicians in its 2006 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).

TI said several countries had a significant worsening of their ratings, including Brazil, Cuba, Israel, Jordan, Laos, Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia and the United States.

"This survey suggests that corruption in Iraq is very bad," TI Chief Executive David Nussbaum told Reuters.

Nussbaum, noting the recent Enron trial, said U.S. court cases had highlighted the scale of corruption there and may have contributed to the deterioration in the U.S. score. The United States was ranked 20th, next to Belgium and Chile.
Wow, we really do stink.

Not only did the U.S. suck at the Winter Olympics, World Cup, World Baseball Classic and the World Basketball Championships this year (not to mention yesterday's New York Marathon), we’re not even capable of being number one at evil? What kind of shit is this? Where's the pride?

Let’s all go out and vote tomorrow. Be sure to pick the candidates most likely to do evil, so hopefully we’ll break into the upper echelons of corruption next year and blow away punk ass countries like Seychelles.

5 comments:

EcamirG said...

not that anyone cares, but we did go 5-for-6 in nobel laureates this year.

http://nobelprize.org/

Luke Cage said...

Hit those polls people. Make it happen. Don't think about it, be about it!!!!

Luke Cage said...

By the way miss Michelle, I was watching the Bill Maher show a few weeks ago and he added on some staggering #'s in regards to our placement in the world on various subjects and lifestyles. I couldn't believe it. So much for being the greatest country in the world. Don't get me wrong. I love my country, but it's obvious we need to get our shit together. Post Haste luv!

Michelle Pessoa said...

Grimace, according to that link we won 4 of 6, not 5 of 6. But the Peace prize and the Literature prize are for pansies anyway.

Michelle Pessoa said...

I wish you had a transcript of that show, Frank. It sounds funny. :)