When you fire the statistics collection people for true-but-bad news, you guarantee that you fly blind going forward, as people wont tell you bad news anymore.

We simply can’t trust government stats after this.

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    3 days ago

    Okay, I just posted his quote from the Bloomberg article to make fun of it. But I have to say that I am very disappointed in CNBC for not including the last sentence. “Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes.”

    Are they trying to make him look reasonable here by not including the blatantly hypocritical last sentence? He is accusing this woman of altering the job numbers without any evidence at all while absolutely everyone who has their head even partway out of their own ass knows that any appointee he chooses will be cooking the books for him from day one.

    Edit: I reacted too quickly, It is included in the article. It’s just further down.