World Bank - Paul Wolfowitz - Hypocrisy

America is famous for its policies of double standards so it is hardly surprising to find this also present in the leadership of the World Bank.

If you are a politician, rich, famous, powerful or have good connections and support from any of these then you have other standards, and mostly other laws and justice, than the rest of us in the world. Hypocrisy is just a word to be used on others. You can change things to suit your own needs, even laws and justice, and most certainly jobs and pay-packets. Are we not used to big bosses awarding themselves, or some other person they choose, extraordinary high pay rises or rewards.

You can move your girlfriend (in the World Bank case Shaha Riza) to a new job to give the impression that no other standards are being applied, no conflicts of interest is taking place. You can suggest that she gets a very high increase in pay ($60,000 pay rise), to earn even more than the US Secretary of State. Then you can get on with the job of cleaning up the corruption in the World. Of course the corruption in the World being in places like Africa, Asia and such likes, not at home, not at the World Bank, or in the USA, or even much closer to home, like……….!

And should that unthinkable, un-democratic, un-social, un-ethical, un-businessman, un-fair, un-sportsman, un-colleague, un-just, un-……thing happen that someone will go and complain about what you have done….well the only thing to do is first deny it, then dig your heels in, refuse to budge, just say the usual….yes well, I might have made a little mistake, I’m so sorry, I promise not to do it again…and with just a little bit of luck - and a lot of pressure from those political/powerful friends of yours – the whole thing will blow over in time. You just have to have put up with a rough ride for a while. You (and your now rich girlfriend) keep your job(s), your power, and your substantial rewards, and get on with the real dirty work of cleaning up the corruption in the real (corrupt) “World”!

Anyway what is all the fuss about! It is not really the World Bank but the USA Bank since the US are the only ones who are allowed to decide who the leader of it is, and therefore control what really goes on, so things are going just the way they normally go, so stop making a storm in a teacup.