Re: [OT] Happy New Year and E911

--- Aaron Teske <mithramuse@yahoo.com> wrote:

> John, why do you think you need a governmental
> regulation before
> there can be corruption?  There was no real

If there's no rules, you can't bribe people to look
the other way when you violate 'em.

> I suppose you can make the arguement that if there's
> no rule
> against it, the person in charge of buying your
> equipment can
> simply go with whoever pays him or her the most --
> but that's
> not all that likely to get you the best equipment,
> is it?

Ah, now military procurement (and the handful of other
governmental procurement programs, most of which don't
come near military expenditures) have a rigorous
testing and evaluation phase which make it very
difficult to foist bad equipment on troops.  Like I
said, practically the only regulated sector of the
economy.  You'd have to bribe lots and lots of people
and do so without the media getting wind of it. 
Bribing people is always easy--keeping the secret
police (very efficient) AND the newsies (not so
efficient, but enthusiastic) both ignorant is never
easy.

John

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