I had a wonderful visit with my brother yesterday. I don’t see him nearly often enough. As is often the case, we were sitting close to a television, which was tuned to CNN. After seeing the story about the case of mistaken identity between the two girls and some idiotic congressman wanting to pass some law requiring search and rescue to rescue pets along with the people, we got to hear the government’s report on employment.
It turns out that employment was up by 75,000 jobs. Whoopee! My brother proclaimed that unemployment was going down. I stared in disbelief. I very rarely watch network news. The reason is that they spin the story to make it sound good. They take an anemic employment number and proclaim to everyone listening that the economy is firing on all cylinders and intelligent people like my brother believe what they are saying.
What the networks should report along with those numbers is the CES business birth/death calculations that I have written about here in the past. It is a slick little piece of statistics that created 211,000 jobs out of thin air last month. If we back those bogus numbers out of the calculation, we lost 136,000 jobs last month and if that is not bad enough, these numbers do not reflect all of the people who have fallen off of the unemployment rolls because their benefits have run out.
Why doesn’t the media report the facts? Two reasons, first, if a network stood up and told the truth about all of the weird things going on around here, they would never be allowed to attend another presidential press conference again. (Personally, I don’t see the problem with that.) Second, it would spook the common folks, like my brother, and those common folks might stop spending money that they do not have on things they do not need.
The government, having failed at getting Google to turn over search records have now notified all Internet companies to retain search records of their customers just in case the government wants to subpoena those records. It’s the terrorists you know.
Folks, our government has systematically destroyed our constitutional rights. The new CIA director General Michael Hayden has announced plans to revamp the CIA to improve spying on American citizens. We are beginning to look a lot like the old Soviet Union. The other day a congresswoman from the south was quoted as saying that she believes the 9/11 tragedy was sponsored, if not carried out, by the US government. I have no idea if she has any evidence to back that claim up but things are not good. The empire is starting to unravel at the edges.
Expect another “terrorist” event by summer’s end and shortages to crop up everywhere. It’s time to batten down the hatches. Got the garden in yet?
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