05-08-2008, 09:22 PM
[quote guitarist][quote JoeH]Who says it is the opposing administration? Both parties have been cooking the figures the last couple decades, just happens that it is "W" in place at the moment.
Last couple decades? Try the last couple centuries. The assumption that there was this mythical time when economic or labor statistics weren't altered, measured inaccurately, politicized, or distorted, is the result of a short historical memory, or wishful thinking.
Now you are just being facetious. These kind of statistics have really only been done over the last century or so. So the "cooking" has gone on longer than a couple decades, the effects on the statistics has gotten pretty bad since about the late '70's. They really start to deviate from the "uncooked" recalculations based on the same data in the early '80's.
Last couple decades? Try the last couple centuries. The assumption that there was this mythical time when economic or labor statistics weren't altered, measured inaccurately, politicized, or distorted, is the result of a short historical memory, or wishful thinking.
Now you are just being facetious. These kind of statistics have really only been done over the last century or so. So the "cooking" has gone on longer than a couple decades, the effects on the statistics has gotten pretty bad since about the late '70's. They really start to deviate from the "uncooked" recalculations based on the same data in the early '80's.