Big Lies, Little Lies. Fake Unemployment Data. Rising Poverty in America

by Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research, November 7, 2010

If we cannot trust what the government tells us about weapons of mass destruction, terrorist events, and the reasons for its wars and bailouts, can we trust the government’s statement last Friday that the US economy gained 151,000 payroll jobs during October?

Apparently not. After examining the government’s report, statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) reported that the jobs were “phantom jobsâ€