Corruption Must be Needed

Corruption - moral perversion; depravity Must - to be obliged or bound to by an imperative requirement; to be under the necessity to; need to Corruption, while possibly beneficial at times, is not an imperative requirement to anything. Computers are not ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY to communication. Clothes are not ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY to survival. Toilets aren't ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY to excretion. These 'necessities', while unnecessary, are crucial to practicality and efficiency. Corruption is not. Corruption is one of the key factors in provoking dissent and rebellions among people and nations. Nations that have an excess of corruption sport low standards of living and high rates of dissatisfaction in its people. India exemplifies this. A report done in Washington University very neatly and systematically churns out the 'hard facts' of corruption. It would be prudent to glaze through at least a part of the report's contents. To save time, I will place some of the report's findings here: There are no sectors in India which doesn't have major corruption scandals. "Health sector: In 2008, World Bank said it had uncovered serious acts of corruption in its five health projects in India amounting to $500 million." "Police sector: Indian police is largely inefficient and unreformed. The police act of 1861 has remained unchanged over the past 150 years." "Telecom sector: A Raja was recently sacked after a CAG report said his ministry sold 2G licenses below market prices costing India nearly $40 billion dollars." "Software Services: The founder of Satyam Co, one of the top service firms in India admitted he had falsely inflated profits for years and resigned in Jan 2009" "In July 2008 The Washington Post reported that nearly a fourth of the 540 Indian Parliament members faced criminal charges including human trafficking, immigration rackets, embezzlement, rape and even murder." "Defence sector: In the 1980"s, the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and several other officials were accused of receiving kickbacks from Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors for winning a bid to supply India with 400 howitzers." "Judiciary: In Jan 02, S.P Bharucha, then India's chief justice said 20% of the higher judiciary might be corrupt. As of feb 2006, 33635 cases were pending in the the Supreme court and more than 3 million cases were pending in high courts." "The history of independent India is rampant with cases of political corruption: Jeep scandal (1948), Mudgal case (1951), Mundra deals (1957-58), Malaviya Sirajuddin scandal (1963), Pratap Singh Kairon case (1963) to name some early few. As Indian economy grows at a rapid pace, the stakes have got higher and the money involved in scams have blown up to gargantuan proportions." http://students.washington.edu... India's corruption extracts money from the people, steals funds from philanthropic organizations and serve only to enrich the powerful. The people are forced to live in extremely poor conditions. An article by author Geoff Hiscock, published by CNN in 2007, wrote about this issue: Nearly 40 percent of India's 1.2 billion people must get by on less than a dollar a day, according to the World Bank. There is widespread child-labor. Nearly half of the children under 3 years of age are malnourished. Poor air and water quality, deteriorated educational system and low standards of living exist in abundance. It is common for people to in essence 'respect' the actions of others. Spitting and urinating in the streets is not uncommon (especially spitting). In 2007, during the 60th anniversary of independence, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called child malnutrition a 'national shame' and, in the same speech, pushed for increased efforts against the detrimental amount of poverty. http://indiatoday.intoday.in... http://www.cnn.com... India has shown the world the results of excess corruption. A chasm opens between rich and poor. Living conditions are disgusting and perilous. While only having had to prove that corruption is NOT a 'Must be Needed' evil, I believe I've exceeded my requirements by further proving that corruption not only unnecessary but extremely harmful.