1 Oct 2024 12:19 pm
When Jimmy Carter was president, the US reported HONEST unemployment and inflation numbers. (We know for a fact because those numbers were bad)*Vegas » 01 Oct 2024, 10:05 am » wrote: ↑ It's impossible to trust government stats anymore. Though I don't know if we ever could. These days nothing can be trusted across the board.
For that, he was lambasted (even though he was not responsible for the high inflation and unemployment).
Reagan’s admin began the trend to massage those numbers (for example, he included military service members as among the “employed” when previously they had been excluded from the count). Clinton’s admin fudged the CPI numbers, but only slightly, and nobody noticed anyway because the 1990s economy was strong.
It wasn’t until 2008+ that people began to notice a huge discrepancy between what they experienced and what the official numbers reported. It’s only gotten worse since then.
Retarded liberals will reply that “anecdotal experience” is invalid, except when anecdotal experience consistently contradicts official #s then you should assume the burden of proof lies with the GOVERNMENT to prove its data is accurate, NOT the people questioning the data integrity.
This is why FOS laughs at libTURDZ and say they are MIDWITS. They can only regurgitate what they learned in college / university and never THINK CRITICALLY when the situation demands it.