Posted on 11/20/2013 7:11:58 AM PST by Kaslin
Apparently we just can’t trust government statistics. But, then again, what else is new? According to a new report, released by John Crudele with the NY Post, the jobs reports leading up to the 2012 Presidential Election were “faked.” Remember when the unemployment rate magically dropped from 8.1 percent to 7.8 percent (coincidently helping Obama keep his previous promise of lowering the unemployment rate before the end of his first term)? Yeah, that’s just one of the jobs reports in question.
More than being simply being manipulate, the Census Bureau was aware of the tampered numbers. Never did the bureau deem it necessary to share with the Markets, Press, or American People that there was some question about the accuracy or dependability of their numbers leading up to the Election. Heck, they didn’t even bother to disclose the data tampering to the Labor Department.
But let’s not stop there. According to the NY Post:
A knowledgeable source says the deception went beyond that one employee — that it escalated at the time President Obama was seeking reelection in 2012 and continues today.
Well. . . I imagine making up data for the most closely watched metric of economic health in the US is kinda addicting. You couldn’t possibly expect the Bureau to suddenly raise the unemployment rate back up to 8.1 percent after Obama was re-elected. Right?
Investigations (ya know. . . The press refers to them as “witch-hunts” when Darrell Issa calls for one) are likely to crop up in the coming weeks. While it is admittedly early to accuse our incredibly transparent and honest Obama Administration of “cooking the books” in the run up to his showdown with Mitt Romney, it’s not really out of the picture either. (I’m sure they’d just tell us that Americans can keep their current jobs numbers if they like their current jobs numbers.)
The revelations are likely to further erode the government’s already decaying credibility. Regardless of the scandal’s size (or deliberate nature) it continues to feed the American Public’s perception that the Federal government is about as trustworthy as Jerry Lundegaard from Fargo. Especially when these revelations are put in the context of recent Obama Administration scandals. The most unnerving of which is clearly the IRS’s willingness to target the President’s political opponents.
Earlier this year we learned the big scandal of the summer when it came to light that the Internal Revenue Service had intentionally targeted “tea-party” nonprofits for harassment and extra scrutiny leading up to the 2012 election. Prophetically, that scandal also began with the narrative that a couple of “rogue” employees had acted “inappropriately”. Of course we now know that the harassment of right-wing political organizations was wide-spread and organized from the higher echelons of Washington DC.
In fact, when compared to the revelations of IRS misconduct, the NY Post report looks potentially damning for the Department of Labor and the credibility of the US Census. The IRS scandal demonstrated a deliberate and willful manipulation of government resources to consolidate and strengthen the Administration’s power. It illustrated a willingness to coerce a win through the power of government. The politically convenient timing of these “fake” jobs reports (coinciding with a troubled Obama reelection effort) certainly should raise an eyebrow. If not by themselves, they should merit inquisitiveness when put in context with the Obama Administration’s habit of manipulation, coercion, and outright lies.
On the other hand, does it really matter? It’s not as if the reports – before or after the 2012 election – are reflective of America’s true economic health. As individual data points, many of the traditional metrics we utilize to measure the “health” of the economy are growing increasingly irrelevant.
Our labor force is at a 35 year low, with more Americans on public assistant programs than ever before. Seven point something percent “unemployment” is a laughably useless number when placed within the broader economic picture. When the headline unemployment rate fails to take into account the massive amount of jobs reduced to part time, the millions of Americans who have dropped from the labor force, and the low quality nature of created jobs, the report is little more than a curiosity. (Well, I guess it does tell the market whether or not the Fed is going to turn off the QE spigot.)
Investors, economists, journalists (eye-roll) and politicos should look forward to more information from the Bureau regarding Crudele’s revelations. Soon a flood of excuses, deflections, and reports will be submitted to explain away the actions of “a rogue employee” in the Census Bureau. Of course, all official reports will be stashed away in my home library next to Obama’s speeches and Bill Clinton’s explanations: Filed under “fiction”.
PS:
(Click here for Crudele’s full report.)
Rick Santelli reacted to the news yesterday on CNBC:
There are three types of lies . . .
This is fraud and should be associated with criminal penalties. (But of course it pertains to the actions of government agents, which seem largely if not entirely above the law.) Plus, don’t forget that control of the Census Bureau was moved, by Obama, to be under the control of the White House, in 2009 IIRC. Can you say conflict of interest?
Apparently we just can’t trust government . . . PERIOD!
IRS, Census, general voter fraud, the Benghazi lie DURING the debate (Crowley), Justice Department intimidation.
Show of hands: Who thinks that Obama “legitimately” won re-election?
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> Apparently we just can’t trust government . . . PERIOD!
R.J. Reynolds thanks the Obama administration. They’ve sold more aliuminum tin foil during this administration than any of the others before it. Conspiracy theorists are no longer theorists and they’ve been vindicated.
“Tyranny.”
It’s sort of worse than that? Tyranny is usually more outright, you know what I mean?
Obama has been facilitating a sort of... general, quiet coup through lies.
His re-election was a coup... it definitely wasn’t a win based on any form of reality or truth.
"This is my shocked face."
The whole Current Regime has been a head fake from the start, from the “Just-Us” department to the (THE)IRS tax collection and now medical programs enforcement department.
The EPA (Every Person Antagonizes) fiefdom has determined that legislation by regulation is perfectly acceptable, who may now deny them? Oliver Cromwell led what was not nearly so much a totalitarian regime, as we have now, because he had no access to the capabilities of the NSA (No Such Agency), or access to the Internet, a most exquisite system by which to confound and muddle any reasonable dialogue.
This is what happens when the very premise from which the debate is supposed to be founded upon is faulty to begin with, then is pursued not with logic and reasonable deduction, but from endless appeals to emotion and what borders very closely on psychosis.
I have long said that one of the lasting legacies of the Obama Administration will be that the public in the future will have ZERO confidence in any sort of economic numbers coming out of the government.
A common misconception. History is replete with lessons that this is precisely how tyranny insinuates itself upon free people, primarily by deceit, not by violent conquer.
When they drove by in 2010 and took the (not Constitutionally authorized) GPS coordinates for my house I realized that they were a threat to me.
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What did the president know and when did he know it?.....Probably the POTUS will revert to his usual Sgt. Schultz defense.
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