WORLD-TYRANT WORLD 07 07 14 2

WORLD-TYRANT WORLD 07 07 14 2 

Virtual Economy’s Phantom Job Gains Are Based on Statistical Fraud 

By Paul Craig Roberts 

July 7, 2014 

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/07/07/virtual-economys-phantom-job-gains-based-statistical-fraud-paul-craig-roberts/

[ First part’s about the gov’s everything’s-all-right-here statistical fraud. 

Second part’s about the heavy atmosphere of fraud the penetrates all. . . ] 

Just as Washington lied to you about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, Assad’s use of chemical weapons, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Waco, and any number of false flag or nonexistent attacks such as Tonkin Gulf, Washington lies to you about jobs and economic recovery.  Don’t believe the spin that you are unemployed because you are shiftless and prefer government handouts to work.  The government does not want you to know that you are unemployed because the corporations offshored American jobs to foreigners and because economic policy only serves the oversized banks and the one percent. 

Just as the jobs and inflation numbers are rigged and the financial markets are rigged, the corrupt Obama regime is now planning to rig US manufacturing and trade statistics in order to bury all evidence of offshoring’s adverse impact on our economy. 

The federal governments Economic Classification Policy Committee has come up with a proposal to redefine fact as fantasy in order to hide offshoring’s contribution to the US trade deficit, artificially inflate the number of US manufacturing jobs, and redefine foreign-made manufactured products as US manufactured products.  For example, Apple iPhones made in China and sold in Europe would be reported as a US export of manufactured goods.  Read Ben Beachy’s important report on this blatant statistical fraud in CounterPunch’s July 4th weekend edition: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/04/we-didnt-offshore-manufacturing/ 

China will not agree that the Apple brand name means that the phones are not Chinese production.  If the Obama regime succeeds with this fraud, the iPhones would be counted twice, once by China and once by the US, and the double-counting would exaggerate world GDP. 

For years I have exposed the absurd claim that offshoring is merely the operation of free trade, and I have exposed the incompetent studies by such as Michael Porter at Harvard and Matthew Slaughter at Dartmouth that claimed to prove that the US was benefitting from offshoring its manufacturing. My book published in 2012 in Germany and in 2013 in the US, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West, proves that offshoring has dismantled the ladders of upward mobility that made the US an opportunity society and is responsible for the decline in US economic growth. The lost jobs and decline in the middle class has contributed to the rise in income inequality, the destruction of tax base for cities and states, and loss of population in America’s once great manufacturing centers. 

For the most part economists have turned a blind eye.  Economists serve the globalists.  It pays them well. 

The corruption in present-day America is total.  Psychologists and anthropologists serve war and torture.  Economists serve globalism and US financial hegemony.  Physicists and chemists serve the war industries.  Physicists and computer geeks serve NSA.  The media serves the government and the corporations.  The political parties serve the six powerful private interest groups that rule the country. 

No one serves truth and liberty. 

I predict that within ten years truth and liberty will be forbidden words uttered only by “domestic extremists” who are a threat that must be exterminated without due process of law. 

America has left us.  We now have the tyranny of the Orwellian state that rules, not by the ballot box and Constitution, but by force and propaganda. 

Jul 7, 2:37 PM EDT 

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ILLINOIS_VOTERS_GLOOMY_MOOD?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-07-07-14-37-29

VOTER GLOOMINESS SHAPES RACE FOR ILLINOIS GOVERNOR [Excerpts] 

The people of Illinois are feeling particularly gloomy about their state, with its high unemployment, billions of dollars in debt, decades-long battles against corruption —-and another possible tax hike waiting for them after the November election. 

The bad mood surfaces in public-opinion polls that *startle even the pollsters*, with one survey showing that more people want to leave Illinois than anywhere else in the U.S. 

It's also evident in the voting booth, where turnout in the March primary was the lowest on record.