As I have always said, statistics can be presented in any manner needed to make things seem okay. You are told inflation has been tame to non existent for the past few years yet if you look at the price of food year over year it has gone up substantially. How about the number of people underemployed? How about the number of people who have given up working altogether? I am not saying the economy is not improving because it is. However I just do not gulp down whatever the govt tells me and smile and say yep everything is great!