This morning the US government revealed that employment is
down by 4,000 jobs. The market took a dive. Why was
the impact so bad?
It is one of two reasons. Either the numbers are so bad, that
the government can't lie about them, or the numbers
are so bad, that the government isn't even going to bother
lying about them.
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The cynical tone of this post serves as a small but powerful example of everything that is wrong with our country today. Why would the government lie? Do you think that your own government would lie to you? How could that happen? This is a Democracy, remember? What happened to faith in Jesus? Or maybe everybody should worship the almighty dollar. If you don't like it here, then maybe you should try living in North Korea. Or Mars. Do you think that the Martians complain about their government? They'd be happy just to have a little free water, in liquid form! They'd be happy -- deliriously so -- to have a free press, like we do. Maybe you should move there, if the good old U-S-of-A is so rotten. Get yourself a good spacesuit and some Tang, tho, because if you think you can just get into your Prius and drive down to the local Food and Drug Mart, there on Mars, then buddy do you have another think comin'.
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I don't have any Tang, but I do have quite a bit of rice, dried eggs, dried milk, Bisquick,and dried chicken-flavored nonspecific foodstuff put aside. That is not to go to Mars, but to hang out at home in case of a pandemic.
I'm with stumpy here. I can't recall the last time the American government lied to us or to anyone else. The very thought of our government lying to us is unthinkable.
*cough* WMDs *cough*
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