Someday

Posted by stephens on Aug 3, 2009 in Rants | 0 comments

I stumbled across a news post today by clicking on a link that read “Manufacturing Takes Big Jump”.

So, I click it.

Takes me to an article titled “Manufacturing Index Signals Growth Soon“.

Define “soon”.

Unemployment is up.

Bankruptcies are up.

Federal tax revenues are down.

When the number of manufacturers go down, but the orders of the remaining few go up, doesn’t that mean the few are getting work from the defunct many?

What the article really says is, “Hey, a few economists guessed wrong. The numbers are slightly better than they guessed they would be. We thought it would take 2.5 hours for the Titanic to sink, but the trend is for it to sink in 3.1 hours.”

What they don’t tell you is it will take 4.7 hours to send a Search and Rescue team. So much for the good news.

After attempting to correlate what I live everyday with what the misguided government propaganda contained in the article, I think they should have titled the piece “Someday”.

As in, “Someday, manufacturing will rebound”.

“Someday, we will be out of this worsening economic depression“.

“Someday, journalists will write something meaningful.”

Someday.