Obama is "cooking the books"

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Imagine a country where challenging the ruling authorities?questioning, say, a piece of data released by central headquarters?would result in mobs of administration sympathizers claiming you should feel "embarrassed" and labeling you a fool, or worse.​
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Soviet Russia perhaps? Communist China? Nope, that would be the United States right now, when a person (like me, for instance) suggests that a certain government datum (like the September unemployment rate of 7.8%) doesn't make sense.​
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Well duh! That is the world we live in now! If it is Obama, don't you dare question anything!

My next tweet, on Oct. 5, the one that got the attention of the Obama campaign and its supporters, read: "Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago guys will do anything..can't debate so change numbers."​
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As I said that same evening in an interview on CNN, if I could write that tweet again, I would have added a few question marks at the end, as with my earlier tweet, to make it clear I was raising a question.​
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But I'm not sorry for the heated debate that ensued. I'm not the first person to question government numbers, and hopefully I won't be the last. Take, for example, one of my chief critics in this go-round, Austan Goolsbee, former chairman of the Obama administration's Council of Economic Advisers. Back in 2003, Mr. Goolsbee himself, commenting on a Bush-era unemployment figure, wrote in a New York Times op-ed: "the government has cooked the books."​
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That's just how Dems roll, Jack.
 
robert l. bentham said:
stuff you say and do online is remembered for all time.... that was just your "for all time"....
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Yeah and? I have a track record here since 05 and from AO DMZ/CH for years before that, though you supposedly would have no idea what that is. My positions have changed very little over the years and I don't regret much.

You OTOH, at least with that nickname, have a history that dates back months.
 
Census ‘faked’ 2012 election jobs report


The Census employee caught faking the results is Julius Buckmon, according to confidential Census documents obtained by The Post. Buckmon told me in an interview this past weekend that he was told to make up information by higher-ups at Census.
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three weeks into his first term as President, Obama put the Census under direct control of the White House.

Wayback Machine 2009:
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Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told FOX News on Monday that he finds it hard to believe the Obama administration felt the need to place re-evaluation of the inner workings of the census so high on his to-do list, just three weeks into his presidency.
“This is nothing more than a political land grab,” Chaffetz said.

Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, told the Salt Lake Tribune that the move “shouldn’t happen.” He and Chaffetz are trying to rally Republicans “before its too late.” “It takes something that is supposedly apolitical like the census, and gives it to a guy who is infamously political,” Bishop said of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who would be tasked with overseeing the census at the White House.
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Wall Street Journal-2009- President Obama said in his inaugural address that he planned to "restore science to its rightful place" in government. That's a worthy goal. But statisticians at the Commerce Department didn't think it would mean having the director of next year's Census report directly to the White House rather than to the Commerce secretary, as is customary. "There's only one reason to have that high level of White House involvement," a career professional at the Census Bureau tells me. "And it's called politics, not science."
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