Jack Welch laid out his argument for why he believes the Department of Labor got the unemployment rate wrong when it announced last Friday that it had dipped to 7.8 percent in September, in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal published Tuesday evening. Welch equates the reaction to his tweet that “these Chicago guys will do anything..can’t debate so change numbers” to what would happen if someone questioned the former communist regime of Soviet Russia.
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