Posted on 11/29/2010 12:12:25 PM PST by maggief
Excellent comments on this thread. thanks!
There is no doubt he made a spectacle of himself. There is no doubt the audience loved it, but the one that counts didn't. Andrew's mission was to promote British commercial interests in the country, not to insult the govermment and the President's son. No mission accomplished for the Prince.
Anyway, baksheesh is not entirely a new concept, and has been the price of doing business in certain places for virtually millenia.
The problem is that our government as well as that of the UK prohibit by law our companies from paying it. It hurts us competitively.
The same prince who is best buds with Jeff Epstein?
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