That's how it works. I see it as a legacy of the disastrous economic policies that India pursued early in its statehood. Sooner or later the Indians are going to figure out that this is one of the biggest things holding their economy back, and they will treat it more seriously.
Of course, don't think the U.S. and Europe are bribery-free. It goes on here, it is just less prevalent, and more on the down-low, than India. On 10/31/07, Gruss wrote: > > I'm looking into a little side thing in India and we need a building > and a permit to do what we want to do. Finding the property is a > piece of cake, but we can't get the permit without bribing the gov't > official and it's actually a negotiation that has been going on for a > few days. > > All my Indian friends tell me this is the case with EVERYTHING there. > Need your visa renewed? Bribe. Get pulled over? Bribe. Need a > building permit? Bribe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245534 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
