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Re:Power outages and sweltering heat in Vietnam, people stru... by latchkey on Monday June 05, 2023 @04:15PM (#36202913)
The reason why there is corruption at the govt job level in Vietnam is because a lot of the jobs can only be gotten by family members or buying them. The street police (golden tigers) have to pay to get their job and the only way they can keep it is by taking bribes.

US did a pretty good job of preventing that sort of thing with more fair access to jobs.

That said, Jared Kushner didn't get the Saudis to give him billions of dollars because he's some magical savant. The corruption is right in front of our faces, yet people just tolerate it differently here.

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Re:Power outages and sweltering heat in Vietnam, people stru... by refurb on Monday June 05, 2023 @05:41PM (#36204221)
Jared Kushner wasn’t in the government when he raised money for an investment fund.

How is that corruption?

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Re:Power outages and sweltering heat in Vietnam, people stru... by latchkey on Friday June 09, 2023 @10:27AM (#36258305)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/us/politics/chris-christi...

“The grift from this family is breathtaking,” Mr. Christie said. “It’s breathtaking. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Kushner walk out of the White House and months later get $2 billion from the Saudis?”

“That’s your money he stole,” he continued, adding, “That makes us a banana republic.”

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