Millions roamed across the nation, jobless, rootless, searching, for a home, for food, for water. Some of them settled in places like Southeast Portland, Oregon; others opted for St. Helens, Oregon and a thousand other places. They were the victims of the Great Depression, of government income redistribution policies, which picked their pockets clean and shifted their income to the rich. The government has kept much of the data secret, but now data has been released from the 1940 census and it’s on-line.
There’s one gigantic difference between then and now. We can trust that the government back then kept the most accurate data possible, but the government now lies to us using data that is fixed to give us a false impression. The government tells us the unemployment rate is less than 9 percent, when it’s closer to 16 percent. The government tells us the inflation rate is 3 percent when it’s almost 11 percent, and they get the 3 percent figure by not including food, energy and other important things we need on a daily basis.
