What about Ukraine? Yanukovich looted his country and lived in a palace with an exotic zoo and bathrooms that had TVs at sitting-on-the-toilet height so that he wouldn't miss his shows while he dealt with his constipation problems.

Or in Angola, where a minister's daughter came to NYC and starred on Say Yes to the Dress, and in fact said yes to about a dozen dresses, just for herself, for just her wedding, each in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, even though 66% of Angolans are impoverished? The minister salaries don't cover such costs.

Do you consider kleptocracy to be the natural and right state of the world? (never mind, I skimmed previous comments of yours - "libertarian", reagan-worshipping, hyper-conservative. You won't answer 'yes', but you will ask 'if that's how the world works then what's wrong with it?')