If I did what the Obama Administration did with number manipulation I would be fired. It would be called an ‘integrity problem’ and I would become part of the unemployed faster than you can say ‘security’ – with extremely poor prospects for finding another job. Playing with numbers on the scale the unemployment numbers were manipulated last year to make the White House look better is LYING on a massive scale. Someone should lose their job for this level of LYING.
For leaving out almost a million unemployed – a number that is NOT insignificant – which made the reported numbers look better than they were, heads should have rolled. Someone should be meeting with their boss, answering questions about how it is possible to make such a gross error, the whole time worrying about wetting himself or herself with fear. And the boss who is doing the grilling should be concerned, sweating bullets of their own while trying to get answers because he/she is going to be in on the carpet in a matter of minutes answering to their boss who is going to be repeating the process until someone is in front of the President of the United States answering how this can happen.
Well, that is if we lived in the sane world where accountability is a concept someone in government understood. Let’s face it; no one in Washington has the first idea about holding anyone accountable. The only thing Washington understands is finger pointing, laying blame and rushing to the microphones to put spin on issues.
This recalibration of the unemployment numbers is a perfect example. President Obama should have been in front of the microphones explaining how a screw up of this magnitude could happen and the steps that were going to be put in place to be certain it never happened again. He should also have offered up the names of those fired for this kind of integrity failure and who is going to jail for destroying the trust of the American people. Instead, he was in front of the microphones crowing about bogus unemployment numbers that were based on faulty, manipulated data. Instead of unemployment numbers that reflect the dire state of our economy when taken in their purest unmolested form, President Obama was busy telling anyone who would listen that he was saving us from the Great Depression II. He was crowing about numbers he KNEW were false and manipulated as if they actually were pointing in a direction that was exactly the opposite of where everyone who was listening KNEW they were pointing. The unemployment rate is slowing because we are running out of jobs to cut. We’re down eight million jobs and we are still adding to the number every month. There was a seasonal slowing due to Christmas hiring and there will be an artificial slowing as the Census Bureau puts on people to count heads. The major turnaround that Obama is dislocating his shoulder patting himself on the back over has not materialized. You see, you can play with percentages all day, but the raw data tells the tale – and it is a sad one.
A major part of this equation is that the American press is acting ignorant of the whole situation. Either they are REALLY good actors or they are truly a bunch of clueless dolts. I’m going with the ‘clueless dolts.’ In spite of their high priced educations and ‘old boy networking’ they are not understanding what the average American is getting loud and clear – unemployment is still with us and showing no sign of turning around. It is all over the Internet how the numbers were manipulated and why the results are bogus. It’s not rocket science. And even if it was not, it is easy to figure out. Anyone who understands business or how numbers work understands what happened – and that we are being lied to for political gain. This is a pattern that should have Americans all across the country shuddering in fear – even the press who is studiously trying to ignore the problem. The depths to which Washington is willing to descend just to mislead us is astonishing – and criminal.
For leaving out almost a million unemployed – a number that is NOT insignificant – which made the reported numbers look better than they were, heads should have rolled. Someone should be meeting with their boss, answering questions about how it is possible to make such a gross error, the whole time worrying about wetting himself or herself with fear. And the boss who is doing the grilling should be concerned, sweating bullets of their own while trying to get answers because he/she is going to be in on the carpet in a matter of minutes answering to their boss who is going to be repeating the process until someone is in front of the President of the United States answering how this can happen.
Well, that is if we lived in the sane world where accountability is a concept someone in government understood. Let’s face it; no one in Washington has the first idea about holding anyone accountable. The only thing Washington understands is finger pointing, laying blame and rushing to the microphones to put spin on issues.
This recalibration of the unemployment numbers is a perfect example. President Obama should have been in front of the microphones explaining how a screw up of this magnitude could happen and the steps that were going to be put in place to be certain it never happened again. He should also have offered up the names of those fired for this kind of integrity failure and who is going to jail for destroying the trust of the American people. Instead, he was in front of the microphones crowing about bogus unemployment numbers that were based on faulty, manipulated data. Instead of unemployment numbers that reflect the dire state of our economy when taken in their purest unmolested form, President Obama was busy telling anyone who would listen that he was saving us from the Great Depression II. He was crowing about numbers he KNEW were false and manipulated as if they actually were pointing in a direction that was exactly the opposite of where everyone who was listening KNEW they were pointing. The unemployment rate is slowing because we are running out of jobs to cut. We’re down eight million jobs and we are still adding to the number every month. There was a seasonal slowing due to Christmas hiring and there will be an artificial slowing as the Census Bureau puts on people to count heads. The major turnaround that Obama is dislocating his shoulder patting himself on the back over has not materialized. You see, you can play with percentages all day, but the raw data tells the tale – and it is a sad one.
A major part of this equation is that the American press is acting ignorant of the whole situation. Either they are REALLY good actors or they are truly a bunch of clueless dolts. I’m going with the ‘clueless dolts.’ In spite of their high priced educations and ‘old boy networking’ they are not understanding what the average American is getting loud and clear – unemployment is still with us and showing no sign of turning around. It is all over the Internet how the numbers were manipulated and why the results are bogus. It’s not rocket science. And even if it was not, it is easy to figure out. Anyone who understands business or how numbers work understands what happened – and that we are being lied to for political gain. This is a pattern that should have Americans all across the country shuddering in fear – even the press who is studiously trying to ignore the problem. The depths to which Washington is willing to descend just to mislead us is astonishing – and criminal.
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