I question all the DOL numbers

[Pototan]

After firing the director of the Department of Labor for employment numbers Trump didn't like how can anyone believe the numbers coming out of that department as long as the Trump administration controls the DOL. The message is clear, favorable numbers allow you to keep you job, negative numbers put your job at risk.

I know there are still a lot of career bureaucrats in place at the DOL, but the release of the headline numbers are in the control of Trumpists.

I write this in advance of any new numbers as a way of forecasting what I believe are favorable false numbers on employment, GDP and inflation information coming out of the DOL.

In the end, the "cheating" may do Trump little good, because you can't tell people prices are going down, when in fact they're paying more. You can't fudge the unemployment rate and fool workers who see their job security at risk and their wages remain stagnant. Same with the GDP, if businesses are closing.

[Blue Full Moon]

1. People who report figures

Actually stated that they weren't going to give the real numbers. The man baby can't handle the truth. Besides they don't want to be fired like the person responsible for labor and unemployment numbers.

[markodochartaigh]

2. "...you can't tell people..."

2+2=5

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?
George Orwell, 1984