You can't be saying that Pearl Harbor was America's fault and not the Imperial Japanese war of conquest; it sounds like you're just disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing like your namesake did a half century ago. He once said "the purpose of the opposition is to oppose". His problem was that he never bothered to stop and think about what he was opposed to. Sure, it was good that the Ohio senator opposed Truman's goofy health care scheme, but Taft went on to blindly oppose joining NATO, the Marshal plan, and kicking Stalin out of Greece.
...like you said, it’s nearly impossible to tell what’s true and what’s not. The labor department only counts you as unemployed as long as you are on welfare or receiving money...
What I was getting at is that it's hard work but that's not a problem because you and I aren't afraid of hard work. The labor dept. counts everyone, and keeps tallies on who's working, on welfare, just keeping house, and they let us decide what we think is true or not --here's a partial list --and we don't even have to take their word for it because we can check other sources or even take our own surveys.