EMPLOYMENT NUMBERS DON’T LIE—THE U.S. ECONOMY IS BLEEDING OUT AND THE FED IS HOLDING THE KNIFE

Let’s dispense with the sugar-coated lies: the American labor market is collapsing in slow motion, and the mainstream media is too compromised, too cowardly, or too complicit to tell you the truth. The August employment report wasn’t just bad—it was a symptom of systemic rot. We're not witnessing a “soft landing,” as Wall Street fairytale pushers like to whisper into the ears of the naïve. No—this is a nosedive without a parachute. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)—a government agency that’s been known to fudge the numbers through statistical alchemy like the “birth-death model”—the economy added a paltry 22,000 jobs in August. That’s about 128,000 short of the minimum needed just to tread water with population growth. Forget growth. We’re in freefall. And even that dismal 22,000 figure is a mirage. Past months were quietly revised downward. June? Now officially negative—13,000 jobs lost. That’s the first such drop since the economy was in lockdown hell in 2020. Yet no virus is to blame this time. The only infection now is systemic failure. And guess who gets to suffer? Not Wall Street. Not the political class. You. HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF, ONLY UGLIER Let’s rewind to 2008. Banks tanked the global economy with junk mortgages, walked off with billions in bailouts, and left Main Street to rot. What followed was the Great Recession—skyrocketing unemployment, mass foreclosures, and the permanent disappearance of blue-collar manufacturing jobs. Now look at August 2025: 12,000 manufacturing jobs lost—continuing a death spiral since February 2023. Black workers’ unemployment rising, while youth unemployment quietly surges. Job searches lengthening—a canary in the coal mine for economic contraction. This isn't a “recovery.” This is economic erosion. Back in 2009, we were told manufacturing jobs would “bounce back.” That the “green economy” and “innovation” would pick up the slack. Instead, factories kept shuttering, wages stagnated, and the middle class evaporated like water in the Nevada sun. What we’re witnessing now isn’t a deviation. It’s the blueprint playing out again—this time under the guise of “post-pandemic normalization.” PRIVATE DATA BLOWS THE LID OFF THE GOVERNMENT'S LIES Let’s go deeper. The private sector has no incentive to play politics with the numbers. And according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, U.S. employers announced 85,979 job cuts in August—a 39% increase from July. Let that sink in. Worse, job cuts are up 66% year-over-year. The total for 2025 so far? 892,362—and the year isn’t even over. That's already 17% higher than all of 2024. These are not just numbers. These are families displaced, mortgages defaulted, health insurance vanished. Compare that to 2008—when corporate America used mass layoffs to jack up profits and juice stock prices. We're watching the same bloodletting again, this time under the polished PR of "strategic restructuring" and "AI integration." The truth? It’s class warfare. And you’re the target. THE FEDERAL RESERVE: A PYROMANIAC WITH A FIRE HOSE Enter the Federal Reserve, the unelected cartel of monetary arsonists lighting the match under the U.S. economy. Now, after jacking interest rates for two years straight in a sadistic attempt to kill inflation caused by their own asset bubbles and helicopter money, they're suddenly considering rate cuts. Heather Long, a Navy Federal economist, is practically begging the Fed to cut rates in September, October, and December—warning that “the ‘no hiring’ economy is turning to a layoff economy.” Well, no kidding. The patient is hemorrhaging, and the Fed is administering leeches. But let’s be brutally honest: rate cuts now won’t reverse years of offshoring, deindustrialization, and mass illegal immigration that’s diluted labor leverage. We’re beyond stimulus fixes. This is structural collapse. WHERE IS THIS HEADED? Every major economic indicator is flashing red: Job creation at its weakest since 2009 Mass layoffs accelerating Manufacturing disintegration continuing Wage growth stagnating Private debt levels exploding Yet the political class keeps whistling past the graveyard, pretending the economy is "resilient." That word, by the way, is a favorite of bureaucrats and oligarchs trying to downplay disaster. They used it in 2007. They used it in early 2020. They’re using it now. The only ones “resilient” are the billionaires. While you’re getting pink slips and eviction notices, the elites are stashing capital in offshore accounts, buying up farmland, and gobbling distressed real estate like vultures over a corpse. COUNTERARGUMENTS? BRING 'EM ON “But unemployment is still low!” Not for long. Unemployment is a lagging indicator. It always stays deceptively low until the dam breaks. Just like in 2008, when we went from 5% to 10% in the blink of an eye. “But inflation is cooling!” That’s because the economy is choking. Demand destruction isn’t victory—it’s surrender. When people can’t afford rent, food, or gas, of course inflation drops. That’s not policy success. That’s economic triage. “But we added some jobs!” Yes—22,000 mostly low-wage, part-time, no-benefit jobs. Not enough to keep up with population growth, let alone lift the economy. Meanwhile, high-paying, full-time positions are vanishing like witnesses at a Clinton deposition. THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL We're not in a “soft landing.” We're in a controlled demolition. The economy has become a machine for asset-stripping the working class, and every lever of institutional power—from the Fed to the BLS to the Treasury—is part of the con. The employment numbers aren't just statistics. They're sirens. And they're telling you: get ready. Prepare your finances. Build parallel systems. Exit the clown world economy where possible. Because this house of cards? It's coming down.

EMPLOYMENT NUMBERS DON’T LIE—THE U.S. ECONOMY IS BLEEDING OUT AND THE FED IS HOLDING THE KNIFE

Bill Brocius Sep 8

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