{"id":5114,"date":"2013-11-20T22:03:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T22:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=5114"},"modified":"2013-11-20T22:03:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T22:03:55","slug":"numbers-fabricated-just-before-last-years-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/11\/20\/numbers-fabricated-just-before-last-years-election\/","title":{"rendered":"NUMBERS FABRICATED JUST BEFORE LAST YEAR\u2019S ELECTION?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before last year\u2019s election some odd numbers floated out of the USBLS. Strikingly, just weeks before the election, unemployment slid from 8.1% to 7.8%. Many economists and CEOs said, \u201cNo way. It\u2019s just not true.\u201d Those who attacked the numbers were immediately labeled racist, conspiracy theorists who just wanted the president to lose reelection.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Welch, former General Electric CEO, was particularly outspoken about the numbers. Welch took to Twitter, \u201cUnbelievable jobs numbers\u2026these Chicago guys will do anything\u2026can\u2019t debate so change numbers.\u201d The Obama administration immediately attacked back by calling Welch\u2019s claims, \u201cRidiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the NY Post, a Census employee was told to fabricate information by his superiors. The report added that the issue continues to this day.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry131121-003421\">NUMBERS FABRICATED JUST BEFORE LAST YEAR\u2019S ELECTION?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before last year\u2019s election some odd numbers floated out of the USBLS. Strikingly, just weeks before the election, unemployment slid from 8.1% to 7.8%. Many economists and CEOs said, \u201cNo way. It\u2019s just not true.\u201d Those who attacked the numbers were immediately labeled racist, conspiracy theorists who just wanted the president to lose reelection. Jack Welch, former General Electric CEO, was particularly outspoken about the numbers. Welch took to Twitter, \u201cUnbelievable jobs numbers\u2026these Chicago guys will do anything\u2026can\u2019t debate so change numbers.\u201d The Obama administration immediately attacked back by calling Welch\u2019s claims, \u201cRidiculous.\u201d According to a report by the NY Post, a Census employee was told to fabricate information by his superiors. The report added that the issue continues to this day. via NUMBERS FABRICATED JUST BEFORE LAST YEAR\u2019S ELECTION?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1862],"class_list":["post-5114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}