United States the 22nd least corrupt country, first time out of the top 20.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/US-slips-to-historic-low-in-rb-3603521040.html?x=0

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Well, this is dissapointing, but not particularly suprising.

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Can we just all agree that everybody here is completely full of sh**t?

Corruption is probably going to save western civilization.  You know what happens when you have massive debt but don't know where the bodies are buried? You become Iceland and Lehman Brothers.

Because Somalia, the most corrupt country in the world, is doing perfectly fine.

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Overrated: US slips to #22 least corrupt
Underrated: Afghanistan at #2(tie) most corrupt and Iraq at #4

Are you saying that US should be lower and Iraq and Afghanistan should be higher?

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 I just found some detailed results!
http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results

Thailand is 3.5 . . . What does opebo have to say about that?

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

That's perfectly reasonable. But I don't think they'll ever be in good shape.