I'm surprised this is a surprise to anyone that does business with Asian, African or South American companies. Anyplace that has high levels of corruption has b

I'm surprised this is a surprise to anyone that does business with Asian, African or South American companies. Anyplace that has high levels of corruption has businesses and Govt hand-in-hand. Isn't this the whole point of accumulating Govt power. If there was no way to extract value from it, no one would care about running for office.