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No. of Recommendations: 4
A question for the Trump supporters on the board:
Do you think the firing of the head of the BLS was a good or not-so-good idea? Any reasons you’d point to, whether pro or con?
No. of Recommendations: 2
Do you think the firing of the head of the BLS was a good or not-so-good idea? Any reasons you’d point to, whether pro or con?
Not sure it's a pro or con yet, but BLS has been missing job estimates for years. It would seem we need better numbers from a key government position.
No. of Recommendations: 0
Unlike Sheeple - as usual - i can give a straight blunt answer.
Preface: I dont know the details - I just dont care about You People and your steady march to caste-tribal 3rd world ism.
So if it's true that Trump fired BLS boss -- because he didn't like the statistics - it's a horrible idea. It's pure 100% 3rd world behavior.
No. of Recommendations: 6
Here are some of the statistics the BLS is responsible for collecting and disseminating.
the Consumer Price Index (inflation)
the Producer Price Index
Import/Export Prices
Data on Wages (including by occupation, by demographics, by industry,
Unemployment (local, state and national)
Employment (* the one that pissed Trump off)
Job openings
Foreign Direct Investment
Labor productivity
Consumer expenditures
Workplace injuries source:
https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/all-the-critica...
No. of Recommendations: 6
Not sure it's a pro or con yet, but BLS has been missing job estimates for years. It would seem we need better numbers from a key government position.
This is evading the issue. We've known they get adjusted for decades and you can ask AI on google for the factors, the first of which is the lag in reporting. Put pressure on it and you'll get different problems and you can then be unhappy with those problems.
So - Do you think the firing of the head of the BLS was a good or not-so-good idea? Please give a direct answer.
No. of Recommendations: 5
Not sure it's a pro or con yet, but BLS has been missing job estimates for years. It would seem we need better numbers from a key government position.
And we'll get those 'better numbers' from a lying Trump sycophant...or else.
Sheesh.
No. of Recommendations: 7
Was highly respected, P.h.D. economist Erika McEntarfer committing accounting fraud just to make Donald Trump look bad,
even though the allegations were universally dismissed by statistical and economic professionals from both parties as completely unfounded,
citing the strong procedural safeguards in place at the BLS?
For Americans with zero critical thinking skills, it can be hard to know.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/03/trump-lab...
No. of Recommendations: 4
For Americans with zero critical thinking skills, it can be hard to know.
As we've seen from some on this board, Dear Leader is never wrong.
No. of Recommendations: 15
Not sure it's a pro or con yet, but BLS has been missing job estimates for years.
It’s called mathematics.
The first report of job numbers comes out just days after the month end. Not every company reports in a timely manner, so data is limited.
This is the reason the BLS revises the numbers for the previous 2 months and occasionally revises annual numbers. The more time that goes by means they have more data. The more data, the more accurate the number. Math.
Oddly, Trump doesn’t give a single shred of evidence that anyone was cooking the books. There are two reasons for that:
1) Trump is a pathological liar and a cowardly bully
2) There is no evidence of fraud
Like everything else Trump does (tariffs, anyone?), this will weaken the economy. Businesses use this data as part of their decision making process. If they don’t trust the numbers, it creates uncertainty. Uncertainty means they will take less risks. Less risk means less spending. Less spending means fewer employees. You get the drift.
No. of Recommendations: 9
1) Trump is a pathological liar and a cowardly bully
2) There is no evidence of fraud
3) Trump is innumerate.
No. of Recommendations: 3
It’s called mathematics.
It's called statistics.
The first report of job numbers comes out just days after the month end. Not every company reports in a timely manner, so data is limited.
This is the reason the BLS revises the numbers for the previous 2 months and occasionally revises annual numbers. The more time that goes by means they have more data. The more data, the more accurate the number. Math.
Here's more math: report out a sample size and a projected +/- for the data. That way you can really grade them to see how well they're doing...and avoid the massive swings in data reporting. Would also eliminate the politics behind it as well.
By the way, I love these threads. Dude comes over here and asks a relatively neutral question and it's like somebody rattle the cages at the insane asylum the way the left piles in with just sheer hate.
No. of Recommendations: 3
1) Trump is a pathological liar and a cowardly bully
2) There is no evidence of fraud
3) Trump is innumerate.
You forgot one:
4) Trump is a pedophile
