Don’t you guys feel great? You keep hearing it over and over again, that the economy is recovering… Unemployment is down… What a great time to be alive, am I right? If everyone thinks it’s a recovery, then maybe YOU are the problem, you little downer you!
Haha, if you believed that crock o’ crap then I guess the rising number of people queuing up for free groceries, or that slowdown in China’s manufacturing or that collapse in oil prices (obliterating fracking) must be because of how well people are doing eh?
It’s as if someone in room 101 of the mainstream press decided that simply repeating that “everything is OK, you are a pink pony” would result in that asinine statement being true… REGARDLESS of how you felt about that line… and personally I do not care for being either pink or a pony.
Every once in awhile even the mainstream press has to publish a telling stat that reveals a glimpse of the man behind the curtain though; they know very well that the people would EVENTUALLY stop buying the bullshit, call them on their game and leave them completely. So they pretend to be objective, and when people start looking away they come out with an “explanation” as to why their lies were not lies but simply a case of plausible ignorance. If they can convince you that YOU are one who is plausibly ignorant, all the better.
FOOD BANKS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE SEEING A RISING DEMAND FOR FREE GROCERIES DESPITE THE GROWING ECONOMY, LEADING SOME CHARITIES TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF FOOD THEY OFFER EACH FAMILY.
U.S. FOOD BANKS ARE EXPECTED TO GIVE AWAY ABOUT 4 BILLION POUNDS OF FOOD THIS YEAR, MORE THAN DOUBLE THE AMOUNT PROVIDED A DECADE AGO, ACCORDING TO FEEDING AMERICA, THE NATION’S PRIMARY FOOD BANK NETWORK. THE GROUP GAVE AWAY 3.8 BILLION IN 2013.
WHILE RELIANCE ON FOOD BANKS EXPLODED WHEN THE ECONOMY TANKED IN 2008, GROUPS SAID DEMAND CONTINUES TO RISE YEAR AFTER YEAR, LEAVING THEM SCRAMBLING TO FIND MORE FOOD.
“WE GET LINES OF PEOPLE EVERY DAY, STARTING AT 6:30 IN THE MORNING,” SAID SHEILA MOORE, WHO OVERSEES FOOD DISTRIBUTION AT THE STOREHOUSE, THE LARGEST PANTRY IN ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, AND ONE WHERE FOOD DISTRIBUTION HAS CLIMBED 15 PERCENT IN THE PAST YEAR.
JAMES ZILIAK, WHO FOUNDED THE CENTER FOR POVERTY RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, SAID THE INCREASED DEMAND IS SURPRISING SINCE THE ECONOMY IS GROWING AND UNEMPLOYMENT HAS DROPPED FROM 10 PERCENT DURING THE RECESSION TO 5.3 PERCENT LAST MONTH.
HOWEVER, MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE FOUND JOBS ARE WORKING ONLY PART-TIME OR FOR LOW WAGES, AND OTHERS HAVE STOPPED LOOKING FOR WORK.
Plausible, no? The mainstream media WEREN’T lying about there being a recovery… it’s just that the definition of “recovery” equals to “Crappy jobs college grads take because they are desperate” and ” that time when the rich get richer because the govt propped up the stock market that they owned most of, but will collapse it promptly once you fools buy into that game again ;)” and “the lowest participation rate since before women joined the workforce, because not participating does NOT mean unemployed” .
Why would the good ole’ government lie to you via their propaganda ministry? Why wouldn’t they, these politicians who benefit from your labor via bri- I mean the corporations that fund their election campaigns.
Alright, let’s discuss that bugbear that is “participation rate”. I’ve talked about it several times before, but the mainstream press depends on your ignorance of that term so that they can blame YOU for the deception when they get fingers pointed at them, because you guys didn’t “understand” the terminology it’s YOUR fault, not theirs… noooo…
You see that “record low” unemployment rate we recently hit at 5.3% in June and July? Not ONLY was it propped up by increasing low-wage and part-time jobs, it was ALSO COMPLETELY explained away by the RECORD number of people who had left the workforce at the time! 640,000 Americans had GIVEN UP on looking for work in June, and even more left in July (144,000)! When you give up looking for work, you’re simply not factored into the unemployment rate anymore. The EASIEST way to reduce the unemployment rate is NOT to increase the number of jobs, but to discourage people from looking for them!
Worse still, even IF you’re looking for a job… if you’ve been looking for “too long” they will simply count you among those who had dropped out…
This does not even account for the “good” jobs that had been lost in that time…
Paul Craig Roberts had this to say:
IN 1994 THE CLINTON REGIME STOPPED COUNTING LONG-TERM DISCOURAGED WORKERS AS UNEMPLOYED. CLINTON WANTED HIS ECONOMY TO LOOK BETTER THAN REAGAN’S, SO HE CEASED COUNTING THE LONG-TERM DISCOURAGED WORKERS THAT WERE PART OF REAGAN’S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE. JOHN WILLIAMS (SHADOWSTATS.COM) CONTINUES TO MEASURE THE LONG-TERM DISCOURAGED WITH THE OFFICIAL METHODOLOGY OF THAT TIME, AND WHEN THESE UNEMPLOYED ARE INCLUDED, THE US RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT AS OF JULY 2015 IS 23%, SEVERAL TIMES HIGHER THAN DURING THE RECESSION WITH WHICH FED CHAIRMAN PAUL VOLCKER GREETED THE REAGAN PRESIDENCY.
A recovery that seems to be far worse than a recession? Well, that’s the NEW AND IMPROVED definition of recovery so… This ain’t the recovery you’re looking for… you may go about your business… move along!
Sources: Eyes Open Report
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Etnocentric much? But yeah.