Originally published at: The Government Shutdown Is Helping Trump Obscure Federal Economic Data - TPM – Talking Points Memo
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has been forced to halt the publishing of its always-anticipated monthly jobs report because of the government shutdown, making room for President Donald Trump’s administration to obscure the true state of the economy nine months into his second term. While the president has made clear his plans to use the…
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To this administration, all this obscurity is a feature, not a bug.
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“During this time, families and corporations could also be left in the dark about worsening inflation.“
Families will not be left in the dark about inflation. They know about it every time they go to the grocery store or see increases in almost everything they pay for. A box of Little Debbie snack cakes is now over $3. That’s real inflation.
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The information will still come out in time.
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Health insurance increases, home insurance increases, and energy increases. That is what I’m hearing about from even my non-politically aware friends. They feel it and they never, ever paid attention to a job numbers or inflation report.
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It’s entitlement. This administration does not function for the People. It’s only there to prop up the old orange fat guy.
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None of those who promote the superiority of male minds or whiteness bothers to note that this government has NO SOLUTONS for a robust economy. No ideas. No interest in fixing the problem with their mighty brains.
It is like a kid who hides the candy wrappers and then lies about not eating the candy - it was little brother!
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Spot on. Anyone else remember “drown the government in a bathtub”? This has been a years-long project of the RW.
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Good. They can hide it from the Fox News viewers but they cannot hide it from people who actually drive the economic ship. Lies aren’t helpful in a downward economic cycle. Trump’s Coal Christmas Train is on the tracks at full speed.
ETA: Mixed metaphor - ship/train.
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KInda weird that it apparently takes 341 million people to prop up one old orange fat guy.
Talk about your waste, fraud and abuse.
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If you don’t test for COVID there won’t be any, Turn off the radar and there will be no enemy planes. Etc
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From the Guardian…
US government shutdownTrump sees ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to punish Democrats as shutdown enters day two
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So, how can democrats shit all over trump’s parade??
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Count me out. I’m disabled due to a bad spine condition
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Actually, the shutdown is “helping” the maladministration to undo SO MUCH!! If they never had to start the government up again, it would be just great! And surely the Supreme Court would let them just magic money out of random bits, right?
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Really it’s because their minds are rotten with greed and power lust. They’ve lost any shreds of humanity they may have once had. Look at Hegspeth strutting on the stage in front of the military brass, dressing them down and threatening them, backed by that frothing monstrosity Trump.
Who the fuck is this guy? A nobody whose head is so full of himself (shit) and has no business being in that place and spewing that garbage, yet he has no comprehension of how inappropriate he is in that place.
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And millionaires and billionaires. If it didn’t it wouldn’t be in power.
And now this: 6th grader’s science fair project answers age-old question: ‘Do cat buttholes touch everything?’
https://www.upworthy.com/cat-buttholes-experiment-ex1
It won’t generate a preview but I guarantee it’s safe for all ages in all environments.
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Just another feature of the Dunning Kruger administration.
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Isn’t that what the “crypto reserve” is all about?
One for U(SA), a million for me. One for U(SA), another million for me. Wheee!
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This report, plus yesterday’s ADP report gives a very good view of how bad the jobs market and economy are right now. They need to go at it with “THIS is what they don’t want you to see! THIS is what the country is facing!”
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