Got a million or so just lying around? You can buy a position in the US government.

[ReptilianPeon]

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You had best read this, Rep, because you clearly do not have the first clue about the economics of the situation.  Who would pay $1 million to make a max of $180,000?  There is much more to it than that.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2...ambassador

The Economics of Being a U.S. Ambassador

Plum foreign postings come at a price for wealthy donors

"Good countries" ( Britain, France, Italy, Germany, etc.) receive ambassadorial postings by political benefactors of the administration for the typical reasons that rich fucks do anything.

Flea-ridden shitholes get career state department employees as ambassadors because rich fucks don't want to go to them.

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First of all, it wasn't just positions as ambassadors that were handed out. And you would know that had you read the articles or watched the video. The corruption was far broader than that. Secondly, are you excusing not giving out positions in government based on merit alone? The most qualified person for the job should get the job and instead giving it to the highest bidder, yes?

So the spin is, not being happy with corruption (and money in politics in general) means I don't know anything about economics?