better
yet — he's the type of guy to extort
money from a congregation that doesn't understand global economics, fiat currency, OPEC, oil production, the supply chain, the exploration of oil reserves or how
foreign / state run companies keep supply low to drive up demand which they then use the proceeds to seed their Islamic theocracies which in turn oppress woman and preach anti-American propaganda.
As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not
yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of
foreign aid, the fact that the amount of
money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough
money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).
Hi, imho, this is
yet another example why Rogers credit cards» ONE benefit of huuuge reward chasing program, which eventually rebate back those upfront charges of annual and / or FX fees and (that
money you loaned to them) be available whenever you reach their threshold spending and / or every year end ASK for credit next year, would be disadvantageous and less useful than those card issuers that charge no or zero
foreign transaction fees aka FX - fee - free credit cards like Premier WE MC from HSBC or HT Preferred, HT Equityline (or even the MOGO prepaid) VISA products from Home Trust.