If unemployment rate was manipulated, there should be hell to pay.
Do you remember the first of the three presidential debates prior to the 2012 election?Republican candidate Mitt Romney soundly thrashed then President Barack Obama in the debate, causing Democrats to start panicking and Republicans and Libertarians to begin thinking that maybe, just maybe, we could see a change at the top and in the direction of our country.
But shortly after that, as if written into a script, a jobs report came out that stated the unemployment rate had dropped from 8.1 percent to 7.8 percent. Obama supporters pointed to the numbers and said, “See, things are going in the right direction under Obama.” Others were too stunned to comment.
Two years prior to that time, the Census Bureau caught an employee fabricating data that went into the unemployment report, and a New York Post source is saying that the deception went beyond that one employee and that it escalated at the time Obama was seeking re-election. The source, who says that this type of manipulation is continuing today, has told the New York Post that he or she is willing to speak with the Labor Department and Congress about this issue if asked to do so.
Not only did the Census Bureau fail to make the known fabrication public knowledge, it also failed to notify the Labor Department about it. And, it appears that the Census Bureau has looked into only a small minority of the falsification instances provided by the person who was caught, according to internal documents.
The New York Post is continuing to try to get to the bottom of this story, as will any other media that really wants to do its job properly. (In other words, the liberal mainstream media will ignore it and hope it goes away.)
If unemployment data was purposely falsified to try to swing an election, this is a huge miscarriage of justice. Not only does data manipulation give voters an inaccurate impression of the economy, it also leads lawmakers, the Federal Reserve and companies to make uninformed decisions.
Would it surprise you if it was proven that Obama’s first-term administration manipulated unemployment data to try to make things seem better than they really were prior to the 2012 election? Do you believe that our current administration would stoop that low? I’d love to hear from you about this.
This unemployment number thing did not just happen, been going on for years. em: My boy, wife and I started college in 1992, my girl started 1994. We all graduated in 1998. Wife when from full time RN to part time RN when college started and I was full time SMW RR with forced overtime for all 6 years. Kids did not work. Wife and I were not counted as “employed” all 6 years.
CPI numbers are another ” not true number ” CPI for us does not include housing food or energy, I think, but CPI for congress ” our employees ” does include these 3 things. We need to fire congress. — these are “” our employees “” not our masters. We need to demand they fix this problem.
I look around and what I see is NOT a growing economy, I see everything going down, down, down! The government can say whatever they choose, I can see those I know who finally gave up even trying to get a job. I see newspapers that used to list dozens of jobs, no longer listing any, if the newspaper is even still being printed. I see how much more we pay every time we buy groceries and other necessary products. I see gasoline prices that are outrageous. I see how much less stock that stores actually have on their shelves now, compared to a few years ago.
The government can publish any numbers they want about unemployment or whatever, and it is mostly all lies! We were told that unemployment in our area was 8% or less, but in truth I’ve seen figures I actually believe that were more like 26%!! That looks more like the reality I see. Do they think all of us don’t have a brain that works — that they can tell us whatever lies they want and we will believe them!
Are you better off than you were before Obama took office? Not many are!! We are being sold a bunch of lies. How many others that you know are better off now than before Obama took office? Not many, I’ll bet, if any!! I know we are not!!
We are living on Social Security because when we were among the young working people, we were told that Social Security would be our retirement fund. Now, we are told that it could be cut, or maybe even dropped. What do we do then? Go on welfare like all the others. And what happens when it’s dropped? Why are so many more on welfare now than before?? Could it be that the economy isn’t as good as they would have us believe?!!
Carol is right on about the ‘new jobs’ being a lot of government jobs that were created. I worked for a contractor that serviced 5 bases, each base having approx 70 employees. As soon a Obama took office we each received a notice that our contract was being terminated and changed to a GS job….along with a large majority of the other contractors at each base. Even the court cases that arose found that the GS system was going to cost the government a LOT more $ to use, but we all had to convert. Way longer hours, huge drop in pay, and a TON more folks hired to ‘manage’ the new GS mega-system. We lost a lot of good folks after the changeover and are now very short-manned…have been for years. Low pay and long hours.
unemployment numbers, voting by live people, new jobs, inflation numbers, lol lol inflation is all around us just not in interest rates. these numbers are not real for sure. not just now been going on for years. it is legal for news to ” LIE “. Why would a news company say or write things, they do not want to happen ???
Whether it be “Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979″ or ” USS Liberty ” our gov lies to us all the time and has lied for a very long time
It’s a fairly simple matter to know when a government representative is lying. He/she opens their mouth. Unemployment statistics, inflation numbers, new jobs created, ad nauseam they are all manipulated numbers to be fed to the selectively ignorant populist. This is the worse administration and congress and supreme court in my 77 years of living and too few give a damn. I fear for our country. We are already two generations past the average 200 year life of a democracy.
Being a family of 4, knowing one day kids will be going to college, wife and I had to find a way to fund college Same as most people do for their kids. So both of us working full time, decided we would need to go to college also. Oh boy ! ! ! Wife is LP so she will go to be an RN. My job has taken me 100 miles from home to work, RR. In 1992 — 3 of us started college, then 1994 all 4 in college, wow wow. Wife had to go part time, called her wimpy hehehe, My job now entered a time of ” force overtime ” you were told to stay to work or come in to work on overtime or lose your job, lasted 6 years when gov finally stop them. We all 4 graduated 1998, wife now RN, my boy computer business is going and teaching at college now, my girl works at home Quality Control for software making 74k a year and me retired 2006.
What I found out while in college amazed me. The whole time wife and I were in college, 6 years, we were “” NOT “” counted as being employed. So this way of gov counting has not just started. It has been around a long time
Every month Obama has been president we have has i,2 to 1.8 million people lose their jobs. Yet the numbrt of jobs created is only 200,000-300.000 jobs. Obama passed the dream act and put 400,000 young people looking for jobs yet the number never changed. WHY! They find every possible way to fool the people but the numbers do not lie. Add them up ans see We are not getting better just being played by a good chicago player and lier for a president.
Although this report sounds Sooooo, unpatriotic (being the All So American kinda guy I am!) It must be The Brainwashing thing, I’ve been victim of, here mentioned, that makes me turn, and say, YOW, if these things are true, America really is, going down the tubes! I’m middle class, working pretty hard, FT, maintenance for a mostly, government contracted, aero-space, corp, here in Connecticut, and, I guess I thought that I was keeping a vigilant eye on things, that were, slowly, Oh So, Slowly, getting better. But If the Hole We’re tring to dig out from, is deeper than was originally reported, Due To Lies, from those Head Honcho’s, in the Labor Dept, then, maybe The Truth Is, we’re digging In, Rather than Digging Out! Not Good! Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for the Dark, Enlightenment! Joelpw
Maybe they were giving the labor analysis of China after obama’s deal to enable only a Chinese oil company to drill in the US Gulf of Mexico in the American waters. Maybe they just added a job for every multi-millionaire or billionaire who said they had purchased another company as well. The administration probably just didn’t have a chance to account for the businesses that had gone out of business and the individuals that had been laid off or fired. They could’ve forgotten that sitting on a sofa collecting food stamps and unemployment to watch tv don’t really count as having a job. Who knows what but they should all be run out of office.
All I can say is, basically, the lies about anything that comes out of Obamas mouth will be to his damnation! Obama may not believe in God – but one day, Obama WILL be SHAKING and TREMBLING in his shoes – facing the very GOD that he didn’t believe in, on judgement day, and wouldn’t I just LOVE to be a fly on the wall, and listen in as Obama tries to LIE and BLAME ANYBODY that he can think of !!!
Financial issues with Dan Celia has been hammering the likelihood of false numbers for some time. He has said that if this is a recovery, it is something right out of the Twilight Zone. He has found that after 15 months of unemployment, the individual is twice as likely to have quit the job hunt than to have a steady job. If we were to count the 10.8 million people eligible and able to work, but are no longer officially counted, the unemployment rate would be 10.7%.
The other major issue with the current economy is falling wages. I recently interviewed for a professional tour bus driver position in a large Midwestern city. The wage was $13 an hour! You have to pass a drug test, have a clean driving record, have a CDL to drive a large vehicle filled with people, plus memorize a dozen or so different tour scripts. For a McDonald’s employee salary? Although I would have loved the job, I won’t be taken advantage of. Unfortunately, back on the hunt!
Doe’s anything surprise us when it comes to Obama ? This story is just another flavor of the week. Generally speaking all politicians are liars but Obama stands like a giant when it comes to lying . Wanna know why Obama tells such tall tales? Because EVERYONE around him allows him to lie by covering up his lies. And making excuses for him. When he runs out of people to blame then then it’s our fault! (heavy sarcasm!!)
I am completely confused by the critics who blame everything fiscally irresponsible on the present POTUS and administration. It’s an inconvenient truth for everyone that this country’s lobbyists and corporations have been throwing the middle class under the bus, not to mention our returning veterans, by outsourcing jobs overseas. And they are still trying to sneak more free trade treaties (TPP) past the Senate in closed-door sessions which have been deemed “secret” & against the law to reveal to the public. I feel like REM singing “What’s the Frequency”…And what’s up with the GOP representatives threatening a Volkswagon automobile factory if they hire Union workers there in Tennessee? The CEO’s don’t seem to mind. Maybe we are lazy, good for nothing citizens here in the U.S. who want something for nothing like the GOP keeps brainwashing that we are. But you’d think that a factory actually hiring and paying decent wages would start the ball rolling to a grand recovery here in the U.S. Folks that love gambling at Wall Street should speculate on how long the old guard down south can put up with all this “foreign interference” just to control their neck of the woods. Oh yeah, when hell freezes over…but isn’t that happening now? Or was POTUS responsible for all that too?
Have we not yet awakened to the fact that EVERY administration has done/will do, and says/promises whatever it takes to get elected. To think that one party is less guilty of doing so than the other is naively playing into their hands and their “divide and conquer” agenda. Can you say, “Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979” cleverly resolved immediately AFTER the election? “Lying” is the politician’s middle name! “Gullible” is ours.
As I recall Obama appointed someone new to head the Cabinet position of the department that actually produces the unemployment numbers. Lo and behold the very first report, right before the election, dropped under the 8% mark. Another important number to know is the amount of government jobs that are counted under the “New Jobs Created” list. I have seen numbers as high as 70%. Not divulging this number leads people to think that the growth is in the private sector. Which also leads to question how part time work is counted as well. Do they track the amount of full time work downgraded to part time work? That would be another pertinent number to know. I read a local article yesterday that said union jobs are increasing in my state. They didn’t bother to point out how many of those are the SEIU, government workers. Employment number crunching is just one in a long list of manipulations.