Cognitive dissonence, or............from Rico

Cognitive dissonance, or the suspension of disbelief?

Gee, the "official" and media-reported numbers do not match your personal and business experience?
- Unemployment? Inflation? GDP? All the statistics today are 'cooked.'

Manipulated government numbers and biased/slanted reporting is the reason collars and cuffs obviously do not match.
- Perception IS reality today, so cooking the books....baldly LYING to the public...."looking good" is clearly more important to these con-artists than actually "doing" any good. It's a helluva lot easier, too.

Shadow Stat's tells us why. Look at the following...