I do appreciate it when journalists eyeball my tax dollars. And individually, these stories are tasty and nutritious. Here we are, riding this endlessly purring economy like kids in a convertible. Each morning the man on the radio reports yesterday's new high for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Each month the Great American Job Machine beats the unemployment statistics down to new lows.
People fly off welfare.
Newsweek counts new billionaires. Yet something's off. Consumer debt has more than doubled in the past decade and is up 51 percent in the last three years alone. Personal bankruptcy hit a historic high last year. Job security is a dream from the past.