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,” the Bureau of Labor Statistics announces that the jobless rate has fallen to 5.1%.  But when the chronically jobless (those whose jobless benefits have expired) the true jobless rate jumps to 22.9%.

       [added 12/30/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

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Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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