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Don't Like the Numbers? Change 'Em
The Wall Street Journal ^
| January 13, 2010
| MICHAEL J. BOSKIN
Posted on 01/14/2010 2:42:36 AM PST by Puzzleman
Politicians and scientists who don't like what their data show lately have simply taken to changing the numbers. They believe that their endsocialism, global climate regulation, health-care legislation, repudiating debt commitments, la gloire françaisejustifies throwing out even minimum standards of accuracy. It appears that no numbers are immune: not GDP, not inflation, not budget, not job or cost estimates, and certainly not temperature. A CEO or CFO issuing such massaged numbers would land in jail...
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TOPICS: Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: distortion; transparency
Everyone needs to understand this.
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posted on
01/14/2010 2:42:38 AM PST
by
Puzzleman
To: Puzzleman
To: Puzzleman
BO and statistics: laudable attempt at transparency in counting the number of jobs "created or saved" by the stimulus bill has degenerated into farce and was just junked this week.
laudable attempt? Anyone who couldn't see thru BO's "jobs created (by government redistribution) or saved (by pork-barrel tax grants and such, more redistribution)" has the same kinda blind spot this WSJ writer and Harry Reid voters have for a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
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posted on
01/14/2010 3:12:07 AM PST
by
flowerplough
( Pennsylvania today - New New Jersey meets North West Virginia.)
To: Puzzleman
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posted on
01/14/2010 6:06:03 AM PST
by
NonLinear
(Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
To: Puzzleman
Government of the criminals, for the criminals and by the criminals.
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posted on
01/14/2010 8:37:38 AM PST
by
Newtoidaho
(Liberals are nothing more than drooling buffoons. Spread the word.)
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