Who bears the desk in his office the witty phrase that gives title to this article is the American physician Ron Paul, Republican senator from Texas. Ron Paul already has decades of public life, so has the credibility to make visible their finding. He came to my mind this sentence after I read "The coat mafia" of Eleandro Pass, a book that chronicles the corruption schemes in Dourados, and that, according to the author, is repeated in many municipalities in Brazil and in various spheres of public power. So
Pass describes, representatives of executive and legislative branches with use voraciously to encourage a common trick in private when you want to increase sales: the payment of percentages of the amount involved, nicknamed the "amount of return."
The problem is that, in private, the money is private and knowingly granted by the owner - whether a shopkeeper, factory or any trade - already in the public, the money comes from taxes taken out of the whole society and not knowing , and does not endorse the means used by their beloved "representatives.
I will not stick with details on the various schemes in itself, after all who wants to download the book to read, it is available on the Internet, and federal police are investigating those involved. I would like to stick some more on moral premises of the electorate, as well as the solutions Pass provides to improve the political landscape of Brazil.
Lodge says: "... Part society fosters corruption. By requiring illegal benefits the citizen corrupts the public servant. When you sell your vote for cash or exchange for any favor, the voter puts the power to steal someone predestined. Welfare of any kind is expensive, and those who do will inevitably get a dishonest way to solve the problem later. "
Yes, indeed, as the author points out, every nation has the government it deserves, and if our representatives, with honorable exceptions, are corrupt, this is just a portrait of moral baseness of our society. I know people - even family - who have exercised and exercise, office, and which were not and are not corrupt. But these are like needles in a haystack. More importantly, the "pedição" rampant and often unreasonable on the part of voters, discouraging the honest politicians.
Pass still says about politicians "... they were also victims of our failure," and then suggests that we should review all the politicians. There is, in my opinion the biggest mistake, Pass. Nobody should worry about politicians or politics. She, to me, should be the most unimportant thing in the world. I do not want, and do not expect others to want to relinquish their time would be working and making money, living with friends and loved ones, dating, and leisure, doing sports, love or something much more important than monitoring bureaucrats who only try to justify their salaries at the end of the month.
I'll correct you, spend. The fight against corruption is the fight more vain on earth. It is one thing more useless than dry ice on a hot sunny day. As the saying goes "The opportunity makes the thief. " What should be done, then, is to avoid this opportunity. The solution to corruption is one: take the most money from the hands of government.
Everywhere in the world, prosperity was present only where state power was, at least in principle, reduced to essentials, and that's what has to be done. What we see in Brazil today is an aberration that would envy any king of the Middle Ages, such centralization of wealth produced by society and that end up in hands of few.
To be pragmatic and to minimize corruption exists, I say that lowering taxes and resort to federalism, and parliamentary amendments that were prohibited - as we prayed the constitution of 1967, which provided the genesis of the Brazilian economic miracle that was later damaged by the wave of statist military hardliners - the country would have a leap in quality of life.
However, do not expect such changes depart spontaneously from politicians, but only the voters, and if they do not realize the trap system in which we live, we are doomed to perpetuate it and to be slaves indulged him.
ps: paper published by newspaper Correio do Estado on 27/12/10. Congratulations to the Courier, I came to think that the article was not published.
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