Statistical Errors

by Dr. Ellen Brandt


Another so-called Jobs Report - at least a somewhat more honest one this time.


Another round of facile dueling Propaganda from the two major Parties, most of it dead wrong.


Another grotesque stab at pushing the Record Low Unemployment Rate meme, when pretty much every American not fast asleep understands that the true tally of those Unemployed or Under-Employed may be a whopping 500 or even 600 percent higher than the stated figure.


At least the Labor Participation Rate keeps the Statistical Perpetrators awake at night - or so we hope.


It remains at levels not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. And even that may understate the case.


That's because the vast majority of the Long-term Unemployed and Under-Employed are part of the already 43 percent of our citizenry over the age of 50 - the Age Maginot Line of Unemployment in our current "good economy."


And that Age Maginot Line, say many, has been lowered to Americans over age 45 - or age 42 - or maybe even age 40 - in some sectors of our economy, those sectors which have been getting pretty much all of the venture capital and the assistance and the publicity during the past 30 miserable years of Dystopian Globalization.


As we have said elsewhere, Mature Americans, particularly those with the highest levels of education and experience and skills, are often paralyzed with pure embarrassment because of the Cruel Fates which have befallen them.


So they camouflage how bad things are for themselves, their families, their communities - sometimes their entire regions - by exhibiting the proverbial stiff upper lip, carrying on with tiny businesses of one sort or another, valiantly trying to maintain them, let alone grow them, in the face of mammoth opposing odds.


These are the Americans - virtually all of them Mature Americans - who slip through the cracks of faulty statistics collection and analysis.


This is the "former Middle Class" whose demise we have all witnessed.


These are the wonderful, educated, skilled, highly qualified Americans whom Hillary Clinton characterizes as Deplorables or Warren Buffett as unfortunate Road Kill on the inexorable path (in the minds of the One Percenters) to full Globalization.


Somewhat miraculously, the chinks in their unassailable armor - one part bad statistics, one part a captive "official" MSM, one part domination of world markets and currencies, and one part pure bullying - are finally beginning to show.


Some of us have been pushing for a Humans First Agenda, where every decision government or business or markets or media makes asks the question "How does it affect actual Human Beings?" before any other consideration is made.


We are gratified that we're at last making some headway in the War Against Dystopian Globalists.


But we have a very long way to go.


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