While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Timothy F. “Turbo Tax” Geithner, secretary of the treasury, writing in the New York Times proudly proclaims the “American economy shows that we are on a path back to growth.”

       Postscript: In the three months since making this statement, another 1,200,000 U.s. subject/enemy/citizens filed for first-time jobless benefits.

       [added 4/5/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.