well, if you squint… it is to maintain optimism by softening the blow to the public. rather than talking about a scary number increasing, e.g. the amount of pe

well, if you squint… it is to maintain optimism by softening the blow to the public. rather than talking about a scary number increasing, e.g. the amount of people living paycheck to paycheck went up, say, 3% next year, instead we can talk about how that 40% only went down a couple points but mostly stayed the same! two years from now, though… that’s probably free ice cream time.