government statistics are no longer worth the bits on a harddrive they are stored on
Agreed Geronl, and the statistics are, as well, no more relevant than the vote counts claimed by various sources. Our votes are counted by SEIU personal, without any possibility of verification. Can anyone imagine that they have validity - represent the will of the people? Votes are data. Data are accurate or not, and data without verification, counted by individuals with extreme bias and direct fiduciary interest in the outcome are worse than inaccurate, they are simply propaganda produced to control the population, to make them feel that nothing they can do will effect the controls imposed upon their freedoms. Without elections, we have lost control, except of our local domains. National elections mean nothing. Local elections mean little more, except that locally, one might see that there appear to be too many opposed to the growing federal takeover, socialism, to believe the numbers being propagated. That is the danger of "Tea Parties" to the minority currently controlling the media and headed by the community organizer whose father was never a citizen.