Y’all have a statistic authority? Dang. The US could use one of those. With more teeth than the UK’s one, obviously. “Yep, nope. We’re gonna need you to repaint all those buses by hand and spend millions of pounds telling everyone you were full of it. Oh, and also you owe me lunch. And not at Long Subs With Pitiful Toppings Chain™. Jeez.”
Yeaaaah but acknowledging it wasn’t a promise is pretty much like saying “Oh yeah, we’re full of it.” So that’s not going to happen. “Oh, it turns out we can’t because we have to use all that money for some other thing. No way we could have known.”
