Just For Fun

                                        

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.  - Mark Twain 

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.  - Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's right hand man.

James Kunstler always writes informative and though-provoking commentary filled with insight and unvarnished truth.  His latest column is a must-read:

 If you care about poll numbers, they tell a simple story of contempt for the current crop of US political leaders. Congress rates a 12 percent approval rating and President Obama, at 35 percent, scores lower than Richard Nixon did in the midst of the Watergate fiasco. I’m surprised that Obama’s numbers aren’t lower (and I voted for him, twice). After all, few American lives were actually touched by the lies and shenanigans that spun off of Watergate, and money was an inconsequential part of it. But a whole lot of people were affected by Obama’s dissimulations around the Affordable Care Act, while his tragic failure to reestablish the rule of law in banking from the get-go in 2009 probably amounts to impeachable malfeasance. Add to this the NSA domestic spying operations revealed by Edward Snowden plus the troops indefinitely garrisoned in Asian countries and you have a portrait of a creeping Orwellian contagion.  (LINK)

Here's a few more charts to go along with that caption above:

(Real Median Household Income - BEFORE The Cost of Obamacare) 

(Tax Dollars and Borrowed Money Spent On The Food Stamp Program)

 

This last one should blow everyone's mind.  It shows the Labor Force Participation Rate going back to 1948 and since Obama took office.  The LFRPR is the number of peope working + looking for work divided by the total population.  As you can see, the LFRPR is back to the level where it was in 1978.  Remember, going all the way back to 1948, the demographics of our country were basically "Leave It To Beaver" - a one-worker/one-income family.  This transitioned into a 2-income household during the late 1970's, so we would expect to see the LFRPR rise.

(% of country working going back to 1948)

 

>(and since Obama took office)

 

What these charts tell us that the employment report released every month that keeps almost the entire financial world on edge of its seats on the day it is released is a complete fraud.  It also tells us that Obama, and the promises he made to reform and change the country, is a complete fraud.  I'm not blaming our country's demise on him specifically.  But there sure seem to be a lot people in this country who have let themselves be fooled.