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Tom Rinaldo

(22,913 posts) Fri Oct 5, 2012, 09:15 AM Oct 2012

RE: the latest wacko conspiracy theory that the job numbers are "cooked".

Go for it wingers and all rightist hacks, please. Add this one to your "all the polls are rigged for Obama by liberals" paranoia. These newer conspiracies fit in so nicely with the your older beloved conspiracies, like "Obama was born in Kenya" and "Climate Change is a hoax", and "hundreds of thousands of aliens are illegally registered to vote in swing states".

No one will believe you outside of your own paranoid circles. Haven't you noticed? Consumer confidence numbers have been rising lately. The percentage of Americans who believe the country is now on "the right track" has risen sharply lately also. These job numbers confirm what Americans are already feeling. Your rants against this jobs report will also confirm what Americans are already feeling. They increasingly feeli that the Republican party has jumped the tracks and is careening wildly into a deluded right wing chasm. Patriots don't bemoan job growth.

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RE: the latest wacko conspiracy theory that the job numbers are "cooked". (Original Post) Tom Rinaldo Oct 2012 OP

The media might notice the conspiracy theories as an admission the numbers are very good. eom My Pet Goat Oct 2012 #1

Possibly, but more likely not Tom Rinaldo Oct 2012 #4

The best revenge is lunatica Oct 2012 #2

DUers used to claim the numbers were rigged in the Bush years. Nye Bevan Oct 2012 #3

From one analysis I have seen: The Straight Story Oct 2012 #5

Exactly.Who can forgetr those "disappointing" job numbers from last month: "below expectations" Tom Rinaldo Oct 2012 #6

My Pet Goat

(413 posts)

1. The media might notice the conspiracy theories as an admission the numbers are very good. eom

Reply to Tom Rinaldo (Original post)

Fri Oct 5, 2012, 09:22 AM

Oct 2012

Tom Rinaldo

(22,913 posts)

4. Possibly, but more likely not

Reply to My Pet Goat (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 5, 2012, 09:31 AM

Oct 2012

The media rarely connects the dots on all the conspiracy theories to point out the obvious; the Right hates facts. But Americans get it. Home rices are starting to stabilize. Americans are starting to feel more hopeful about the economy. The Right is rooting against the recovery, like they have all along, and that will increasingly be damning to them

lunatica

(53,410 posts)

2. The best revenge is

Reply to Tom Rinaldo (Original post)

Fri Oct 5, 2012, 09:23 AM

Oct 2012

success!

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)

3. DUers used to claim the numbers were rigged in the Bush years.

Reply to Tom Rinaldo (Original post)

Fri Oct 5, 2012, 09:30 AM

Oct 2012

e.g. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=32871&mesg_id=33474

Personally I don't think they were rigged then and I don't think they are now. The risks of being discovered would be just too great.

The Straight Story

(48,121 posts)

5. From one analysis I have seen:

Reply to Tom Rinaldo (Original post)

Fri Oct 5, 2012, 09:32 AM

Oct 2012

"The drop came because of the upward revision of the jobs numbers in Q4 and Q1 (2011 and 2012) of 386,000 that was announce by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics on Sept 27. In addition, there was the addition of 40,000 jobs to the July report and 46,000 jobs to the August report. So it wasn't just the 114,000 jobs that led to the drop of 0.3% in the unemployment number. It was the addition of 586,000 jobs after corrections."

Tom Rinaldo

(22,913 posts)

6. Exactly.Who can forgetr those "disappointing" job numbers from last month: "below expectations"

Reply to The Straight Story (Reply #5)

Fri Oct 5, 2012, 03:30 PM

Oct 2012

Did anyone accuse the Bureau of "cooking the numbers" for Romney then? It isn't a precise science but the minor errors get corrected as more complete data comes in.

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