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  • Census ‘faked’ 2012 election jobs report

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    In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington. The decline — from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September — might not have been all it seemed. The numbers, according to a reliable source, were manipulated. And the Census Bureau, which does the unemployment survey, knew it. Just two years before the presidential election, the Census Bureau had caught an employee fabricating data that went into the unemployment report, which is one of the most closely watched measures of the economy. ... (full story)

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  • Nov 19, 2013 8:47am Nov 19, 2013 8:47am
  •  gat
  • | Joined Dec 2009 | Status: Member | 957 Comments
Well golly (Gomer Pyle voice) - who would have thunk it? I mean this administration is so open and honest. Must have been an isolated incident done by a lone wolf.

Does anyone have as much faith in any government numbers now as you did a decade ago?
 
 
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  • Nov 19, 2013 9:02am Nov 19, 2013 9:02am
  •  Rap Skallion
  • Joined Jan 2012 | Status: Member | 64 Comments
Maybe so, but then I did't then.
First of all, it's statistics...
Second of all, it's the government....

I lost faith in the government when Eisenhower lied about Gary Powers being shot down.

I believed him then, and Told a German national so...
Only to have the truth come out.

I have not yet lived that one down.

If Eisenhower lied, then anyone in politics can lie.

The constitution was set up so that we can watch the government.
They had a reason to do that.
 
 
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  • Nov 19, 2013 9:14am Nov 19, 2013 9:14am
  •  Greener
  • | Joined Jan 2010 | Status: Member | 667 Comments
shutdown job figures were as real as Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
 
 
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  • Nov 19, 2013 9:44am Nov 19, 2013 9:44am
  •  SlideLow
  • | Joined Jul 2009 | Status: Member | 15 Comments
You mean to tell me that we pay for real, or expect Data? hmmm

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-08-11/
 
 
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  • Nov 19, 2013 12:22pm Nov 19, 2013 12:22pm
  •  acetrader
  • Joined Feb 2006 | Status: Member | 91 Comments
Why should we be surprised at that when there is nothing but lies coming from the whitehouse everyday? You are either a complete liberal idiot to believe anything that comes from the goverment, especially from the feds.
 
 
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