Well, you’ve already accused me of being a government shill, Jim, since
   I don’t think you’re a special flower. You don’t need to educate me.
   I’m clearly in on it.
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   From: Jim Bell [1]Jim Bell
   Reply: Jim Bell [2]jamesdbell8@yahoo.com
   Date: November 26, 2013 at 11:21:29 AM
   To: Al Billings [3]albill@openbuddha.com, cypherpunks@cpunks.org
   [4]cypherpunks@cpunks.org
   Subject:  Re: bitcoin as a global medium of exchange (was Re:
   Interesting take on Sanjuro's Assassination Market)

   (Note:  I meant to type "$700,000" in Nigeria, below, not "$700.)
   Oh, non-perceptive one, I seek to enlighten you.  While the payment for
   bribery normally is thought of as occurring _before_ (or during) the
   payback desired, as a practical matter it isn't very practical to bribe
   an American president while he is in office.  But since the office of
   President will continue to exist, and the people who are inclined to
   get favors will continue to exist, and they all know this (see 'game
   theory'),  a logical solution is to delay the bribe payment until the
   office-holder is out of office.  Obviously, while a president may
   wonder what would motivate a briber to actually pay the bribe after he
   leaves office, the reality is (remember reality?) is that word of
   welshing will surely get back to the subsequent office-holder(s),
   poisoning the well for the almost-but-not-quite-briber in the future.
   No doubt, for example, America's First Muslim President will pick up
   tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars doing the rubber-chicken
   circuit in the (Muslim) Middle-east.  Do you wonder why Obama hasn't
   'jawboned' the Arab oil producers to drop oil prices to, say, $60 per
   barrel?  Do you wonder why he hasn't made more threats to open up the
   spigots of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?  Or why he hasn't approved
   the construction of the Keystone oil pipeline?  That's right:  Obama is
   carrying-water for the very people he expects to be bribed by about 3.5
   years hence.
           Jim Bell

References

   1. mailto:jamesdbell8@yahoo.com
   2. mailto:jamesdbell8@yahoo.com
   3. mailto:albill@openbuddha.com
   4. mailto:cypherpunks@cpunks.org