[editor-surveyor]

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Everything in your post is correct, except for your final paragraph, which is completely contrary to the preceding text.

The final paragraph is just your own dazed misunderstanding, and has absolutely nothing to do with the congressional acts.

[Uncle Sham]

By assigning a result to a set of circumstances in one instance, then changing that result to another one from the same set of circumstances, did they not tell us that the originally assigned result was not what the circumstances dictated?