They are about how well Americans could be doing..
He says:
The multitudes are eating road kill and raiding farmlands. However, our sophisticated indices clearly show there is signifigant purchasing power for them all to be shopping with abandon at Whole Foods. Since we are bad a predicting the true state of the economy I have secretly admonished the current administration and congress to grease the wheels for processing spiraling bankruptcies in a kinder and gentler way, so we can get these rabid consumers back on their feet in time for the holiday retail season.