NEWS: Bush Proposes Modifications to Number Line, Scientific Method

POLITICS: Bush Proposes Modifications to Number Line, Scientific Method

The Bush administration, in a profoundly disturbing attempt to skew the American peoples perceptions, has announced changes to the methods by which the Census Bureau will compile their statistics. The announcement came following released statistics showing poverty levels have increasing for three straight years, as well as showing that the number of Americans without health care has reached record levels. It now appears that the Bush administration has taken a trick from the playbooks of their buddies in Enron and Halliburton, and decided to change their accounting, instead of changing their practices.

Other changes include ending the government's monthly report on mass layoffs and declaring that the recession started under President Clinton instead of using the date determined by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private non-partisan research group from Cambridge, Mass. The date was pushed back from March 2001, to the fourth quarter of 2000,

The monthly report on mass layoffs was started in 1984, but dropped under the last Bush recession in 1992, for "lack of funding." The report was reinstated in 1995 under President Clinton, and dropped this year, again "for lack of funding." The last report, from November of 2003, showed more than 240,000 workers lost jobs in 2150 mass layoffs.

stop being economic girley-men

uhm...I think if you are going to post a news story it should be from a website that at least TRIES to be objective...

isn't the anti-christ supposed to appear harmless in the beginning? well, at least he can't make peace in the middle east.

holy fucking shit. i never thought hr would be so blantant.

never, ever, ever...



i want to see some fucking neo-con, jackass, right-wing heartless bastard stand up and say, "blah blah, this is what we needed, blah blah, about time, blah fucking blah..."

please, just try...

I don't suppose you, you know, read, the article and the enumerated sources. Or is Business Week a key player in the liberal media conspiracy?

need i say more?








[Edited on Sep 02, 2004 by whiterabbit]

The lengths to which the neocons will go to cover their ass and decieve the masses is... well, it's INFINITE.

Each day I'm totally astounded by some new bit of information illustrating the depth of their treachery. They've been working on this plan to diminish the policies of Roosevelt's New Deal and Johnson's Great Society for decades, They've been very effective at influencing public opinion and shifting social responsibility away from government without offering any alternatives. (Not to mention destroynig our credibility in the world.)

You have to expect the neocons in government to adapt the Enron book-cooking system of accounting. Profit uber alles is a way of life for them. They lack the moral fortitude to even recognize the implications of their actions.

In the end, I fear, there is nothing they will settle for short of winner-takes-all. Compromise is for girlie men in their handbook.


is just another word for nothin' left to lose...

The choclate ration has increased from 15 g to 20 g, not decreased from 30 g. Don't you know anything about doublethink?

[Edited on Sep 03, 2004 by FrameOfReference]

bleep bloop bleep bleep...

I'm with whiterabbit.

I'm no fan of Bush, but to be fair to him, quibbling about when the recession started isn't really the issue - even if it started in 3/01, the groundwork for the collapse was laid under Clinton (to the extent that presidential policy was a factor at all, which is never clear in market issues).

On the other hand, it seems fairly clear that even if Bush didn't start the fire, his economic policies have exacerbated the damage that it's done as its run its course (for instance, I don't know about you, but a) when I have a surplus, I save at least part of it for a rainy day and b) I don't cut my income right when I'm making a huge purchase like, say, two wars).

Un-fuckin'-believable. I have no other words.

who can step up to the plate and fucking do something that isn't shady and greedy? Politics= poly(many)+tics (blood sucking creatures). Bush himself said that a dictatorship would be a lot easier! the first time i saw him on jay leno, he said, " see jay, my socks are pulled up. my mom always said to have my socks pulled up and look, they are." i was giving him a chance to say something smart on national tv, but when i heard that, i never liked him since.
It's amazing that we have to work so fucking hard everyday (yes, we're in the spotlight as a major world superpower), but this guy doesn't and has never worked a hard, ball busting job ever, EVER!!!!!!! I can't imagine seeing bush working at KFC or waitering or working 2 jobs to stay afloat. What kind of message is he saying to me when he's constantly playing golf or chillin' at the ranch. what a fucking, fat-ass

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"blah blah, this is what we needed, blah blah, about time, blah fucking blah..."

This is like Reagan making Ketchup a vegetable or the Bush administration trying reclassify Fast Food jobs as Manufacturing jobs.

The sad part is most Fox News watching zombies will buy it.

*yawn*

"objective" is such a relative term theses days. here we at least have the sources from which the information was complied. its a lot better than listening to the shrimpboat ads that contradict offical military records and after action reports that some of these same individuals signed off on or received awards for the actions detailed in the same reports.
but back to the misleader report, isn't it interesting that instead of addressing the root causes of the bad news, the current administration wants to change how the information is gathered and analysized? the information was bad but the chickenhawks response to it is even worse

Kerry started out as the son of a factory worker (lawyer) who married a poor immigrant girl (a member or the wealthy forbes family) and worked his way through community college (Yale). He then earned his livelihood working minimum wage jobs (Married into the Heinz fortune), etc. etc.

My point is that he is just as bad about knowing what the "working people" want as bush is. Don't get me wrong, I'm not republican, I'm Libertarian. Just please don't make the mistake of blaming bush for not knowing about the working man when all the two major parties will put up is rich boys.



[Edited on Sep 02, 2004 3:09PM]

isnt edwards from a working class family?

kind of like when international economic agreements signed by clinton were supposed to benefit developing nations. when are we going to to realize that we are ALL getting duped!

So, you admit defeat concerning Kerry?

I will admit that Edwards background as the son of a blue-collard worker checks out. So, vote Edwards for President!

Edwards 2004!

i love it... another reason to vote.. his ass outta office...