Anyone who hopes for a high figure is a tool. Think about this for three seconds and you'll understand.
I don't understand? "hopes"?
I understand that it's a fairly common word. Does it have an extremely specific useage in America? Because I think my point was at least reasonably clear.
I still have no idea what you're saying still here. "Tool" in the U.S. is a guy so clueless and awkward as to not know that he's being used/fooled/whatever. I don't think that's inherent in hoping that politicians are lying to us about this stuff?