Arraya: You and I both know you cannot argue with the math. The problem is that the government has done an exceptional job in ginning the numbers and gulling the public into believing that all is well and things aren’t nearly as bad as they really are.
If we were to gain access to actual unemployment numbers, or actual inflation numbers, or actual bank numbers, you’d see wholesale panic in the markets. The entire system is built on trust, or, more correctly, confidence and everyone from Obama on down understands that, once that confidence is blown, its game over.
You have some incredibly dire numbers here in California, and yet you see posters insisting that we’ve “turned the corner” or “the worst is over” and nearly all of that is based on deliberately erroneous numbers. The truth would be an absolute killer at this point and that’s why we’ll never get it.
Welcome to the “new normal”, as pundits are calling it. Remember: Big Brother loves you.
