Friday's payroll jobs report is another government fairy tale or, to avoid polite euphemisms, another packet of lies just like the House of Representatives Resolution against Russia and every other statement that comes out of Washington. Washington is averse to truth. Washington can only lie. First let's pretend that the 321,000 new jobs that the government claims the economy created in November are true, and let's see where these jobs are. Specialty trade contractors, which I think are home and office remodelers, accounted for 20,000 jobs. I doubt that people are putting money into houses and buildings that are worth less than the mortgage. Manufacturing accounted for 28,000?"a very high monthly figure for recent years, one that is unbelievable in view of the rise in the trade deficit and declines in consumer spending on furniture (-3.8%), major appliances (-8.3%), women's apparel (-17.7%), and household textiles such as towels and sheets (-26.5%), and when US bus