Those Fabricated Jobs

Last Friday’s payroll jobs report is another government fairy tale or, to avoid polite euphemisms, another packet of lies. Lies just like the House of Representatives Resolution against Russia and every other statement that comes out of Washington.

Washington is averse to truth. Washington can only lie.

The Browbeat and Baffle Political Battle

It never ceases to disgust, horrify and amaze how people are hoodwinked by marketing, media and advertizing. A textbook case is election 2014. States have measures on the ballot, and Oregon has one that big business in particular doesn't like. As a result the campaign to defeat it has become the costliest in Oregon history as big business pounds the airwaves with their deep pocket funded misleading and manipulative ads.

CBS 60 Minutes Has Gone to the Dogs

It's Official. CBS 60 Minutes has turned into a corporate propaganda show from the long-time original investigative reporting 60 Minutes used to be. Many point to the phony story on the NSA or Benghazi as the turning point for the long time news show but we think there are other stories just as outrageous.

Brewing Signs of Housing Trouble

We've all been wondering how home prices could be soaring when wages are so low and an estimated 10 million foreclosures have been completed. Now a wave of reports are pointing to more trouble in residential real estate.

Immigrant Founders -- The Rest of the Story

start up America ^{Originally published on Economic Immigration AKA The Prisoner's Dilemma}

Americans Are Awash In Spin

I have come to the conclusion that Big Brother's subjects in George Orwell's 1984 are better informed than Americans.

Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay.

On October 27, 2011, the US government announced some routine economic statistics, and the president of the European Council announced a new approach to the Greek sovereign debt crisis. The result of these funny numbers and mere words sent the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to its largest monthly rally since 1974, erasing its 2011 yearly loss. The euro rose, putting the European currency again 40% above its initial parity with the US dollar when the euro was introduced.

On National Public Radio a half-wit analyst declared, emphatically, that the latest US government statistics proved that the recovery was in place and that there was no danger whatsoever of a double-dip recession. And half-brain economists predicted a better tomorrow.

Friday Movie Night - Orwell Rolls in His Grave

hot buttered popcorn It's Friday Night! Party Time! Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!

Anyone being innudated with political ads might be interested in the history of spin.

If You Want to Bail Out Main Street Then.....Bail Out Main Street!

truck wreck What's the reality?

Main Street is getting run over by a Mac Truck called Corporatism and has been for years.

You Are a God Damn, %$$%&()!!* PROTECTIONIST!

Have you ever noticed that when the United States has an increase in the trade deficit, the middle class reports stagnant wages, massive foreclosures, the number of Americans living in poverty jumps or massive underemployment surges, the pundits come out and call everyone a Protectionist?

How did the concept of protecting the United States economy and national interest end up being a dirty word?

That God Damn, evil movement, Protectionism, even made it to the G8 summit:

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