I'd Tell You Why We're Better Off Today Than Four Years Ago . . .

. . . but I've read today's headlines . . .

• Food-Stamp Use Climbs to Record, Reviving Campaign Issue - Bloomberg

•  Manufacturing sector shrinks for third straight month: ISM  via @reuters

•  Wall Street falls after ISM, construction spending data - Yahoo! News  via @YahooNews

•  Vanguard's Jack Bogle: Financial 'train wreck' looms – USATODAY.com  via @USATODAY

•  Check out: August Gasoline Prices at Seven-year High   via @daily_finance

•  Check out: Job Creation in August to Be Nil?   via @daily_finance

•  America’s disappearing jobs  via @NBCNewsBusiness

and I know it's a lie, a lie SO BIG that few would believe it. Why, even Joe Bidenopoulos knows it, but attempts to dance around this issue anyway, and then feigns heat stroke!

Nice try, Joe!