This morning the spokesmodels for Wall Street on Bloomberg Television were touting the 'better than expected' unemployment claims figures.
They came in at 'only 570,000.'
Wait a minute. That does not seem right. Have another cup of coffee and look up the figures.
The consensus of expectations was 565,000. The actual was 570,000. That's better?
Betty Liu went on to explain, 'they are better than expected because they fell from the week before.' The prior week's figures were revised from 576,000 to 580,000.
In her defense, she just says what they put in front of her. I wonder if the same can be said for Obama.
We're not in Kansas anymore.
"O that I could find in the desert a wayside shelter for travelers, that I might depart from my people. For they are all adulterers, an unfaithful mob of traitors. Their tongues are devious weapons, bent like drawn bows. With falsehoods rather than truth they have gained power. They commit one crime after another. They do not know me, says the Lord. I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, the lair of jackals. I will lay waste to Judah, a desolation where no one can live."
Jeremiah 9:2-3,11