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procon

(15,805 posts) Mon Sep 10, 2018, 02:51 PM Sep 2018

Did I just hear this grinning fool on MSNBC admit to cooking the books

to get a more favorable set of stats? He said they weighted the GAO numbers by downplaying the number or low wage, unskilled labor so it shows a larger percent higher wage earners so Trump can brag that he's increasing wages.

Who was he?

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Did I just hear this grinning fool on MSNBC admit to cooking the books (Original Post) procon Sep 2018 OP

YES !!! "we took the numbers and .." They took "non cash benefits" & added to BLS numbers instead o uponit7771 Sep 2018 #1

Trump's Turbineguy Sep 2018 #2

Love the graph that starts at 2012 instead of 2008 Tardislass Sep 2018 #3

+1, he added a zero by mistake. That guy was straight up creepy AF !!! uponit7771 Sep 2018 #4

Kinda figures . . . Iliyah Sep 2018 #5

The sad thing is with this major hurricane coming most people would forget Tardislass Sep 2018 #6

My favorite tweet and lie from this presser is the following Tardislass Sep 2018 #7

By design,the Trump Wellstone ruled Sep 2018 #8

uponit7771

(90,363 posts)

1. YES !!! "we took the numbers and .." They took "non cash benefits" & added to BLS numbers instead o

Reply to procon (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2018, 02:51 PM

Sep 2018

... of taking historical BLS numbers and

The "numbers that were reported in the media isn't reflective of"

Yes, this guy striaght up admitted to changing the BLS numbers or reporting on top of them outside of historical BLS stats

The BLS should be writing an op ed !!!

Turbineguy

(37,365 posts)

2. Trump's

Reply to procon (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2018, 02:55 PM

Sep 2018

(you name it)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/business/wage-growth-white-house.html

If you grin wide enough your bank balance rises.

Tardislass

(86 posts)

3. Love the graph that starts at 2012 instead of 2008

Reply to procon (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2018, 02:55 PM

Sep 2018

And add another aide thrown under the bus as to why Trump tweeted fake numbers. The aide gave him false numbers...yeah right. Nothing ever is Dear Leaders fault. Guess SHS was too chicken to come out and lie.

uponit7771

(90,363 posts)

4. +1, he added a zero by mistake. That guy was straight up creepy AF !!!

Reply to Tardislass (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 10, 2018, 02:57 PM

Sep 2018

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)

5. Kinda figures . . .

Reply to procon (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2018, 03:00 PM

Sep 2018

this administration and Republican party seems to always adjust numbers to favor them. Didn't the Bush administration forgot to include military cost?

Anyways, I don't look at the stock market anymore, I look at the cost and living and stagnant wages.

Tardislass

(86 posts)

6. The sad thing is with this major hurricane coming most people would forget

Reply to Iliyah (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 10, 2018, 03:04 PM

Sep 2018

about the Woodward book and Obama's speech. Tiny Hands seems not to be able to let go of any slight and does himself in every time. How hard would it to have a briefing about the hurricane by a FEMA official? Journalists love deadly weather events-unless Pence has given all the staff Fear to read.

Tardislass

(86 posts)

7. My favorite tweet and lie from this presser is the following

Reply to procon (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2018, 03:14 PM

Sep 2018

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hassett says his appearance at the lectern isn't the result of the <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BarackObama</a> speech last Friday. "We were prepared to do this briefing a few weeks ago." <a href="https://t.co/hHbM37CAjF">pic.twitter.com/hHbM37CAjF</a></p>— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) <a href="

Link to tweet

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

8. By design,the Trump

Reply to procon (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2018, 03:35 PM

Sep 2018

Henchman have been cooking the Books since day one. For those who follow the Markets and the dynamics that cause markets to act and or react,knew from the get go,you were going to see a pump and dump operations. You can not move one and half trillion dollars to one per cent of the Populace and not see a negative reaction to our overall Economy.

Someone has to pick up the slack,and,it will be the 99% of those who do not benefit from this massive movement of wealth.

Do not forget Larry Kudlow peddled this same crap for Bush and Cheney,using similiar comments that Poor People are better off in the USA than other place on Earth. Yah Right,and Shit still stinks.

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