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They may have gone up, but at least they\u2019re still below 400,000<\/a> (which, last I heard, was still far above what we need to recover).\u00a0 But this being an election year, and a liberal Democrat being in the presidency, expect the economic news to be bright and sunny in Philadelphia, and everywhere else.\u00a0 No matter how big the cloud, the news reports will always find the silver lining.\u00a0 Just like from the point in which Bush was named president, the news reports insisted we were on the brink of economic catastrophe, now we can know that no\u00a0matter how dire the news, we will be pointed to the bright spot.\u00a0 That things might actually be as bad, or worse, than most people think is something that the propaganda ministry<\/strike> news media must work feverishly to overcome.\u00a0 And that is what they will do.\u00a0 Who knows, at least it might make folks who get their notions of the world from the media feel better.\u00a0 The rest of us, who get our notions of the world from the world around us, will probably not feel the love.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"