FW: Bush Resorts to Statistical Manipulation

Sleazy and slimy scum that knows no bounds.   

Surely, this trial balloon will burst.  But if he's elected this year, I
predict they'll make it happen.

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From: The Daily Mislead [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: February 24, 2004 12:53 PM
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Subject: Bush Resorts to Statistical Manipulation


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THE DAILY MIS-LEAD
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INSTEAD OF ADMITTING ECONOMIC TRUTH, BUSH RESORTS TO STATISTICAL
MANIPULATION

President Bush, attempting to obscure his record as the worst economic
steward since Herbert Hoover, has become so desperate that he is
exploring ways to manipulate statistics. Just days after Bush reneged on
his pledge to create 2.6 million jobs and said with a straight face that
"5.6% unemployment is a good national number," the New York Times
uncovered a White House report showing that the president is considering
re-classifying low-paid fast food jobs as "manufacturing jobs" as a way
to hide the massive manufacturing job losses that have occurred during
his term.

As CBS News reports, "Since the month President Bush was inaugurated,
the economy has lost about 2.7 million manufacturing jobs." But if the
president enacts the statistical change he is considering, this number
would be purposely obscured because lower-paying fast-food jobs would be
added to make the real manufacturing losses look smaller. Of course,
fast-food jobs typically pay much less and have fewer benefits than real
manufacturing jobs, meaning the statistical change would also obscure
the fact that, under Bush, "in 48 of the 50 states, jobs in
higher-paying industries have given way to jobs in lower-paying
industries." All told, jobs in growing industries like lower-paid
service sector/fast food jobs are paying 21% less than contracting
industries like real manufacturing.

The president's efforts to manipulate statistics and mislead Americans
is also getting a boost from his allies on Capitol Hill. Earlier this
month, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Don Nickles (R-OK) was pointing
to an optimistic "household" jobs survey as proof that "we're at an
all-time high in employment" and that "the employment situation has
improved rather substantially.'' The problem is that Federal Reserve
Chairman Alan Greenspan said definitively that "payroll data" - not the
household survey - "is the series which you have to follow" in order to
be accurate. The payroll data shows "a loss of more than two million
jobs since 2001."

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