và lượng mưa sẽ được gần 20% mạnh hơn. Tất cả điều này có thể được gây ra bởi lượng khí thải CO2 cao hơn tạo ra một hiệu ứng nhà kính mạnh mẽ. Tiếp theo, chúng tôi có các công ty bảo hiểm mà người ta có chính sách phải trả tiền để trang trải các chi phí gây ra bởi các cơn bão. Chúng ta hãy nhìn vào những gì đã xảy ra | CHAPTER 11 Government Scandals The United States has a rich and varied history of scandals which makes it difficult to narrow the list down as there are so many worthy examples of skulduggery and bad behavior. The more outrageous scandals seem to correlate strongly with the smaller offices and backwaters where there is less oversight of the officeholders activity. In other words mold doesn t grow where there s sunlight. Local officials seem to have special proclivity for using influence and muscle to get what they want. The graft corruption sex scandals are more numerous at the local level but not as important for shifting power for a broader group. The continuum looks like this numerous frequent scandals on the left side with small impact geographically to less numerous frequent with large impact geographically on the right side as we move from local to state to federal government. Remember scandals don t always mean that the people involved get booted out of office. However those government officials usually lose their respect and power. Growing up in the Chicago area I ve been exposed to more political scandals than I can ever put down in one chapter. There s a nice range of gubernatorial misdeeds to choose from with one governor getting caught taking bribes from racetrack owners just to get additional highway exits to their tracks to a recent governor being involved in the sale of government licenses and contracts while he was secretary of state. Then there was a secretary of state who died and they found shoeboxes full of cash in his closet. There are so many aldermanic examples that it is impossible to choose but just think about the nicknames like Bathhouse John or Hinky Dink and you get the idea. The best way to sum up the Chicago experience 189 190 POLITICS comes from Al Capone as he was encouraging people to go to the polls Vote early and often. It has been our motto ever since. It s with this in mind that we begin our investigation of the impacts that .
