Numbers, numbers, numbers. Everyone is talking numbers to validate their opinions. Based on what I see in my state, I don't pay attention to their numbers - or I assume they are worse than an honest reflection of reality - because they've been cooking the books, using bogus methods to add numbers and being very vague and defensive about their methods and reasoning for any decisions being made. In other words, they're full of it.

Logic tells me that it's happening plenty of other places that I'm not paying close attention to. Probably worse.

If the truth is sooooo bad, why do they feel the need to BS everyone and do everything in secret?