Over 513,000 tractors built in the last three months alone!

So one thing I've learned over the last 6 years is that when the President says something in public, you can bet that the exact opposite of that statement is actually the truth.

Take, for example, this statement on the official White House "Jobs and Economic Growth" website.

"Real After-Tax Income Per Person Has Risen By 9.8 Percent – More Than $2,800 – Since The President Took Office."

Hooray!! Really? That's a bunch. Gee, thanks, Mr. President for making all of that income growth.

And yet we hear that an "American Journal of Preventive Medicine study... found that since 2000, the number of severely poor — far below basic poverty terms — in the United States has grown 'more than any other segment of the population.'"

So who do we believe? Do we believe the President's statement that "When people across the world look at America's economy what they see is low inflation, low unemployment, and the fastest growth of any major industrialized nation,"?

Or do we believe one of those "scientific" studies based on data from the Census Bureau that says things like this:

"Worker productivity has increased dramatically since the brief recession of 2001, but wages and job growth have lagged behind. At the same time, the share of national income going to corporate profits has dwarfed the amount going to wages and salaries," the study found.

"That helps explain why the median household income for working-age families, adjusted for inflation, has fallen for five straight years.

"These and other factors have helped push 43% of the nation's 37 million poor people into deep poverty — the highest rate since at least 1975."

Now, personally, I don't know why USA Today has to go all the way to Agence-France Presse to get economic news. It seems like they could have just pulled some fun facts off of the White House.gov site, slapped a happy picture on it, and called it a day. We would never have been the wiser. But now they've gone and published foreign stories about our illustrious economy that might make our national balls shirk in embarrassment. Shame on AFP for writing such blatant unvarnished truth. And shame on USA Today for publishing propaganda that hadn't been approved by our government. And worse, it was written by those Frenchy tarts at AFP. If it's not good enough to get Americans to write about, then it isn't true.

I guess in New America, everyone really is entitled to their own facts. You're free America. You're free to believe everything the government tells you to believe.

Now go back to sleep, America. I'm sorry I woke you. Don't mind me.