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To: KyrosL who wrote (81366)	10/13/2011 11:59:10 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219973

Possibly because folks still mostly buy the official figures.. ? This discussion can obviously get political.. I tend to think US democracy is a sham for the electorate and that real control is bought an paid for.. all numbers are meaningless by themselves.. trends may count :O) muddle through is not what the public wants to hear...

To: KyrosL who wrote (81366)	10/13/2011 12:03:40 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219973

"The US does not jail people that publish its oil or copper inventory numbers, independently of official sources." No the US never does anything wrong. "The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States in 1922–23, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome and two other locations to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. In 1922 and 1923, the leases became the subject of a sensational investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Fall was later convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies. Before the Watergate scandal, Teapot Dome was regarded as the "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics". The scandal also was a key factor in posthumously further destroying the public reputation of the Harding administration, which was already unpopular due to its poor handling of the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 and the President's veto of the Bonus Bill in 1922." en.wikipedia.org