[/quote]Other than a reference to that shadowstats site, whose methodologies are at the very least suspect, and one must bear in mind that this is another maundering by Paul Craig Roberts, a man whose views are pretty much right-wing knee jerks.

For example:

[quote]Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) reports that the BLS adds (...)

You know you live in a police state when police forces across the country attack unarmed and non-violent citizen protesters with pepper spray and clubs....
You know you live in a police state when hundreds of thousands of citizens are rotting in prisons for victimless "crimes" -- such as smoking pot -- and (...)

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Uh...something allowed in as a sentencing memmorandum based upon the word of an FBI stool-pigeon?

What's wrong with this picture?

I personally do think there are useful distinctions to be made, even if one agrees that politicians are universally venal

Sorry to inform you, there's nothing in any school district CTA contract anywhere in the State of California with job site guarantee.

What would Canada be without numan? Better off?

Course, this one ain't bad, either.

Scout we live in (...)

"Democrats shouldn't take too much pleasure in the irony of Republicans tearing each other apart with unlimited corporation donations. Soon it will be Obama's turn -- and if Democrats hope voters will see through all the negativity, they are naive.

Modern advertising and sophisticated propaganda have proved (...)