Tyler Durden: I know this comes as a surprise, but it looks like the White House is fixing the unemployment numbers

A selection of headlines at The Drudge Report highlights the problem with our economy.

The Cloward-Piven tactics of the administration appear to be in full effect. So how is it that the media portrays things as "getting better"?

Writing at Zero Hedge, Tyler Durden describes the implications of this week's unemployment numbers. In a nutshell: they appear to be an outright scam.

Even as the BLS [Bureau of Labor Statistics] and DOL [Department of Labor] would like us to believe that the unemployment picture is getting better, we present a chart comparing the initial and continued claims as presented by the Dept. of Labor and compare these to actual government outlays. Even as the two combined series have been declining (offset by increasing much discussed EUCs), the most recent Unemployment Insurance Benefit outlay reported by the Treasury (as of March 30 - there is still one more day of data for March), just hit an all time record high of $15.4 billion. What this means is that in March the average paycheck from Uncle Sam for sitting doing nothing, surged to an all time high of $1,447/month.

...It appears that in March either the government decided to payout an additional roughly 20% per unemployment paycheck, or once again, there is a shadow population of beneficiaries, which are not caught in any of the standard cohorts. Keep in mind that the average monthly paycheck has traditionally been indicated as being about $1,000.

If anyone has an explanation other than that presented by Tyler Durden, I'd welcome it.

Because it's quite disturbing to believe the administration is lying about ev-ery-thing.