Posted on 04/10/2024 11:51:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
Not only are you being lied to, your own tax dollars are being used to accomplish the deception.
For all of the left’s faux concern about ‘misinformation and disinformation’ they’ve got their own sordid little information laundering scheme going on.
It’s an incestuous little circle of politicians, bureaucrats and media who all share the same political goals (big government) for their various, and sometimes conflicting reasons, but each works hand in hand to push the same agenda: push a public narrative that puts the Biden administration in the best possible light, so that Dems can keep control of government and keep the special interest gravy train rolling.
Anything that could threaten that arrangement will be opposed with the fierce heat of a thousand Suns. This thinking gives them licence to lie both about the alleged accomplishments of this administration and the supposed harms of the other guy.
Here are just two examples of federal stats giving a window into how that works.
Job stats
You know that jobs report that Biden and his fawning media flunkies slobbered all over last week? Well, once you look under the hood, they aren’t nearly as exciting as that first enthusiastic reporting might suggest.
CPAC:
Despite the media and White House claiming victory based on the new jobs report, here’s what the numbers show:
In the past year:
249k+ Government Bureaucrats 30k+ Low-Wage Retail Jobs -16k Manufacturing Jobs
Of course, that stat gets even more strained once the net migration number is factored into those employment numbers. With people coming into the country at a rate exceeding the new jobs being created, we are taking a step back.
U.S. employment figures contain a mystery that has left many economists scratching their heads: How is the country generating so many jobs even while the unemployment rate has drifted up?
The emerging consensus: a surge in immigration. It not only explains inconsistencies in the jobs data but suggests the economy can keep adding plenty of jobs without overheating. That in turn would let the Federal Reserve still consider interest-rate cuts. — WSJ
Cooked crime stats
An independent group of law enforcement officials and analysts claim violent crime rates are much higher than figures reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in its 2023 violent crime statistics.
The Coalition for Law Order and Safety released its April 2024 report called “Assessing America’s Crime Crises: Trends, Causes, and Consequences,” and identified four potential causes for the increase in crime in most major cities across the U.S.: de-policing, de-carceration, de-prosecution and politicization of the criminal justice system. […] The new report reveals three major findings: that the U.S. faces a public safety crisis beset by high crime and an increasingly dysfunctional justice system; that crime has risen dramatically over the past few years and may be worse than some official statistics claim; and that although preliminary 2023 FBI data shows a decline in many offenses, violent and serious crime remains heightened compared to 2019 data.
Researchers wrote, “to say crime is down is like descending from a tall peak and standing on a high bluff, saying you are closer to the ground – a true but misleading statement.” — FoxNews
Of course, those jobs numbers will be quietly revised downward weeks later, while incomplete and misleading FBI numbers will be accepted as ‘official’ despite misgivings, giving his media spin-meisters all the fodder they need to look us dead in the eye and tell us that the urban crime and financial hardship so many of us are faced with are nothing more than media myths ginned up by political activists with an ax to grind.
I don’t believe anything from this government or the media - the Ministry of Truth.
“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”
— Mussolini
If all the jobs created are government jobs, and if all the private sector jobs disappear, then the trains will run on time. Or something.
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Republicans, or for that matter anyone interested in telling us the truth, need to give us accurate conclusions from the data.
It is fun arguing over inflation, unemployement, etc numbers with my friends from other countries.
They all think every gov’t computes those numbers the same way, so they are comparable to each other.
Government employees do not pay taxes.
Unless they have some source of outside the government income, they just go through the motions every January-April.
I figured this out when at the ripe old age of 18 and I got my first paycheck as a Marine and read my first “Leave and Earning Statement.”
It said that I had paid X dollars in Income Tax.
No, I didn’t.
They just didn’t give it to me.
Then the government must still have that ‘X’ dollars, right?
No, they don’t. It’s just a number in a computer somewhere. No actual dollars changed hands.
My paycheck came out of taxpayers’ money that actually do work outside the government, and they pay according to their income levels.
Now, let’s expand that all the way out to just ONE GUY paying actual real taxes.
The entire government would be funded by just him.
He would have to make one helluva paycheck to cover all the government requires.
Now, let’s say he quits his job, leaves the country and retires.
Who is going to pay the taxes to support the government?
If EVERYBODY works for the government or receives government support in the form of welfare, subsidy or contract, then there is nobody left to actually pay the taxes to keep it going.
Ayn Rand had it right.
WHO IS JOHN GALT?.......................
Misinformation disinformation information laundering owned by Biden & Co. and the MSM.
Nobody can’t say they didn’t see that coming.
The comrade crew never rests.
See : MMT.
.gov doesn’t even need taxes to operate. (Federal Reserve)!The tax code is used to reward their friends and punish their enemies, a control mechanism.
Public servants? No, they’ve morphed into masters.
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