Crazy Man on another rampage
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Don’t like the numbers? Fire someone.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/trump-erika-mcentarfer-jobs-report-fired.html
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Um, how does that defend him?
The numbers are adjusted all the time, so nothing has changed; he just doesn't like the numbers.
It's not incompetence on the part of the BLS, it's just how things work. The initial number doesn't include all the data, and once the rest of the info is in, the number may get adjusted.
Short description of how it works:
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/job-numbers-change-revisions/
I have no confidence that the jobs numbers will mean anything after a new commissioner is appointed. You don't keep your job in this administration by doing your job. You keep it if you do what the boss wants. Mess with the yarn he is trying to spin and you'll find yourself out.
They're gonna be cookin' the numbers from now on.
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Some Republicans don't think the firing was the best idea.
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Sternly worded memo to follow.
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@Mik said in Crazy Man on another rampage:
In his defense they were constantly adjusting the Biden numbers down after announcing.
Maybe you should learn a bit more about how the BLS works.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-2/revisions-to-jobs-numbers.htm