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The government always finds way to lie about the unemployment rate.

This administration has kicked lying into overdrive. Perhaps an ugly modern art form is a better analogy.

They are STILL trying to convince us that man made global warming is real despite all the evidence against showing that it's Socialist nonsense.

“’There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics”
~ Mark Twain

US economy is doing well? Pardon me while I throw a monkey wrench into the machinery of your essay:

- Unemployed/underemployed reported as roughly 95 million. The unemployment rate is kept artificially low by taking people OFF the list once they’re past the 99 months of unemployment benefits OR they’re making enough money by working one or several part time jobs they no longer qualify. We are told US unemployment is around 6% when in reality it’s closer to 30% on average (over 50% in many urban areas).
- Weekly jobs added well under 200,000
- US citizens on food stamps: almost 50 million.
- Stock market at record highs? Sure, and the FED (Federal Reserve Bank) has been PUMPING upwards of a billion dollars a MONTH into the economy (adding FIAT currency produced out of thin air - with nothing to back it - a trick China’s central bank has just learned with predictable results).
- Gasoline prices are low? Yes, but not because of supply but LOW demand. Gasoline OUTPUT has remained constant. NO new refineries have been built in the past 8 (15?) years. Refineries are running at capacity. There isn’t a glut of OIL, there is a lack of demand for finished product.
- You might want to rethink this idea of how well our economy is doing. SOME areas are doing better than others, like the ten wealthiest counties in the nation are clustered around Washington DC. Washington taxes everyone, and plays favorites by distributing their tax dollars to cronies in and around the nation’s capitol and select areas of the country to maintain the ILLUSION of growth. Look into the idea of “Potemkin villages” sometime.