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...CRITICIZING this part of the Congress Project report for its extravagant redundance, though, it's easy to forget that it isn't addressed to people who are innured to graft and jaded by executive usurpation. The data and conclusions of the report are not intended to contribute to the disinterested study of Congress. Nader is writing for action. Suggesting that lack of citizen vigilance has allowed Congress to "surrender its enormous authority and resources to special interest groups, waste, insensitivity, ignorance and bureaucracy," Nader wants to alert the citizens to their own interest in "what these 535 legislators...
...easy--stringing the rest of the cables from tower to tower, dropping steel suspenders from the cables, building a roadway on the steel suspenders--but it took seven more years. That a bridge could be built on such a scale was astonishing. That it should rise triumphantly above the graft, conspicuous consumption, and suffering that had once been the American dream--and such a beautiful bridge--that is the sort of thing which proves the American dream is sometimes a reality...
...recent cases of Bobby Baker, Walter Jenkins, and Billy Sol Estes come to mind. It is safe to predict that a McGovern Administration would have a few embarrassments in its wake as well. Not that scandals are morally defendable, but experience suggests that they are politically inevitable. Old-fashioned graft at least distributes its burdens more equitably and less destructively than certain majoritarian programs which are quite legal and above-board...
...York Times would be required to say who passed him the Pentagon Papers. The same for columnist Jack Anderson and his ITT scoop. Or more recently, The Times would be compelled to name before a grand jury every source--many of whom would be incriminated--for its series detailing graft in the New York City construction business totalling over $25 million annually. The City of New York either could not, or did not bother to, uncover the scandal. The Times did. But had those men who supplied The Times its information known they would have no protection before a grand...
...country more than they put into it. Even so, some prospective investors decide, after a few days of exploring, that setting up shop in Zaïre is more trouble than it is worth. What turns them off, most of all, is a well-established system of graft known as matabiche (probably taken from a Portuguese word, matabichos, meaning bug-killer, with the implication that there are bugs everywhere to be taken care of). One high government official recently estimated that 60% of last year's government budget may have disappeared in matabiche...