Selective data - How the Bush administration hides bad economic news

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The Bush administration is finally facing tough questions about its selective use of intelligence in selling war with Iraq. But Americans shouldn’t just be skeptical of what the president says about WMD. They should be skeptical of what he says about GDP. In economic policy even more than in war policy, the Bushies have successfully suppressed, manipulated, and withheld evidence to serve their policy purposes.

The administration muzzles routine economic information that’s unfavorable. Last year, for example, the administration stopped issuing a monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics report, known as the Mass Layoff Statistics program, that tracked factory closings throughout the country. The cancellation was made known on Christmas Eve in a footnote to the department’s final report — a document that revealed 2,150 mass layoffs in November, cashiering nearly a quarter-million workers. The administration claimed the report was a victim of budget cuts. After The Washington Post happened to catch this bit of data suppression, the BLS report was reinstated. (Interestingly, President George H.W. Bush buried these same statistics in ’92, also during a period of job losses. They were revived by President Clinton.)

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And what about environmental data! The most corrupt Adm. in the history of the USA! Along with the most corrupt American media in the History of the USA.

Sue the MEDIA!

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