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Trump fires commissioner of labor statistics after weaker-than-expected jobs
406 sats \ 20 comments \ @028559d218 1 Aug econ
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15 sats \ 12 replies \ @Undisciplined 1 Aug
I’ve heard from more than one federal researcher who’s work was held up or stopped because it didn’t support the current regime’s policies.
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42 sats \ 6 replies \ @sudonaka 2 Aug
They should all be fired. Working for the government is robbing your neighbor
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 2 Aug
I agree with the first part, but working for the government isn't what causes taxes. Congress steals and then spends.
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42 sats \ 4 replies \ @sudonaka 3 Aug
It absolutely does. If the normal people “working” as a jackboot government enabler just quit and got a real job- the government would cease to exist.
If you “work for the government” You are enabling tyranny
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 3 Aug
“If everyone would just…” is not a useful line of thinking.
Someone will accept that money. So, your neighbor who works at the post office isn’t adding to the problem.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @sudonaka 1h
It is a useful hypothetical.
The PEOPLE choose to steal from their neighbor- they keep voting for taxes and “services” but that doesn’t give anyone the RIGHT to implement that theft. Other people choose to implement those tyrannical votes. And so on.
All it takes is someone on the chain to say NO.
But you sit here making excuses and encouraging them all to keep “doing their job”
It makes me sick.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 2 Aug
is it possible the bureau of labor statistics needs a shakeup because of their gross revisions in the last 2 years?
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 2 Aug
Of course. I've heard that the BEA was created because the BLS was such a bunch of commies.
I'm just saying that Trump is squashing research findings, regardless of their veracity, when they differ from what he wants to be true.
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47 sats \ 2 replies \ @028559d218 OP 1 Aug
It seems to me that if you don't like the statistics from some government bureaucracy... you'll just keeping firing people until they give 'the statistics' you do like.
Reminds me of USSR
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Turdinthepunchbowl 1 Aug
Wherever you go, there you are.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 1 Aug
From what I can gather, they don’t want the bad press of being that blatant.
But, basically, yes.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 2 Aug
Revisions so wildly off has been the case for awhile, disclosure op, reveals the data has always been a fugaz
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @sudonaka 1 Aug
Socialist end of empire vibes
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @euthymic 1 Aug
Sounds like North Korea
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @03cf4d95fc 2 Aug freebie
seems to me that if you don't like the statistics from some government bureaucracy... you'll just keeping firing people until they give 'the statistics' you do like. Reminds me of USSR
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @spiderman 2 Aug
I suspect the core reason is not the number but the wild revisions? I kean if one has to revise so drastically, then best not to publish the number at all until one has more reliable data available.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Machiavelli23 2 Aug
Trump probably like the stats so much that he wanted to contribute to the jobs report by firing the guy. “You’re fired”
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 1 Aug
Trump in a nutshell.
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