Unfortunately, I was drinking my orange juice when I read the statement. What a mess!

Your (or L’s?) sidebar link yielded a very important point. This is another example of the financial and economic obfuscation that was a lasting legacy of the pressures brought on by the Vietnam War. One of the things we’re seeing now is the tearing back of the veils of fraudulent official statistics that were so much a part of the blinding of America to the impending disaster.

“Great Depression jobs parallel may not be far flung”, by Pedro Nicolaci da Costa, Reuters, January 9, 2009.

Under President Lyndon Johnson, the government decided individuals who had stopped looking for work for more than a year were no longer part of the labor force. This dramatically decreased the jobless rate reported by the government.

What’s next, a return to Gross National Product?