Reply #2: The Bush fingerprints on the UE rate lie is obvious - but the inflation

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changes appear to be an implementation of a 98 decision - or at least that is how Bush is covering his tracks.

Given no problems under Clinton with the Stats - I do believe that the inflation changes are also Bush driven.

The fake seasonal changes in UE are easy to point out to the media - but they usual go to a GOP type who says they are "reasonable" - and does not discuss how they were chosen BECAUSE of their effect in lowering the UE rate - so the media drops.

On inflation I would have thought that the prior indexes would have been restated - and I think they have - but you are saying that the basic weightings do not reflect real life - as in the cost of health care. While I agree, again the media will find some GOP type to say it is a reasonable "professional" estimate of the proper weightings, and the media will move on.

We need a clerk who worked on this stuff to come forward to discuss.

otherwise I do not think this has legs.