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Untrue. I've lived in Arizona for a year; have you heard of sheriff Joe Arpaio? http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/criminal-enterprise-a-culture-of-corruption

• tomc1985 9y ago
  Characters like Arpaio are relatively uncommon in lower levels of the US gov. Corruption in Brazil is endemic. Pretty sure theres a large difference. US may occasionally see third-world-BS, but in many places elsewhere in the world it is a fact of life.
• oh_sigh 9y ago
  One could, but it would be a statement completely divorced from reality.
  • lbrito 9y ago
    How so? I can cite a single corruption episode that trumps maybe 99% of the Brazilian corruption scandals. 40 billion USD in cash sent to Afghanistan by plane just "vanished". https://www.cnbc.com/id/45031100 https://www.cnbc.com/id/45031100 For the sake of comparison, the largest corruption scandal of Brazil to this date revolves around 42 billion BRL, which is about 13 billion USD. http://g1.globo.com/pr/parana/noticia/2015/11/pf-estima-que-prejuizo-da-petrobras-com-corrupcao-pode-ser-de-r-42-bi.html http://g1.globo.com/pr/parana/noticia/2015/11/pf-estima-que-... Of course, one might argue "oh, but 40 bilion dollars in cash going missing is not corruption, it's just unfortunate/bad management/insert excuse here". "Corruption" is just one of those words of which the meaning changes depending on the object it refers to - it's always the other person's, never your own.