Posted on 10/05/2012 7:53:22 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Conservatives: Jobs data is phoney By: Kevin Robillard October 5, 2012 09:51 AM EDT
The release Friday of unexpectedly positive jobs numbers immediately touched off a conspiracy theory among conservatives, who suggested the data was being manipulated.
“Chicago style politics is at work here,” Florida GOP Rep. Allen West wrote on his Facebook page. “Somehow by manipulation of data we are all of a sudden below 8 percent unemployment, a month from the Presidential election. This is Orwellian to say the least and representative of Saul Alinsky tactics from the book ‘Rules for Radicals’- a must read for all who want to know how the left strategize.”
West added, “Trust the Obama administration? Sure, and the spontaneous reaction to a video caused the death of our Ambassador……and pigs fly.”
While West is the only government official to buy into the manipulation idea so far, he has plenty of company in the conservative movement.
“Either the Federal Reserve, which has its fingers on the pulse of every element of the economy, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics manufacturing survey report are grievously wrong or the number used to calculate the unemployment rate are wrong, or worse manipulated,” Americans for Limited Government declared in a press release. “Given that these numbers conveniently meet Obama’s campaign promises one month before the election, the conclusions are obvious.”
The group’s president, Rick Manning, declared the president had hired “infamous Iraqi Information Minister Baghdad Bob to calculate the unemployment rate. Anyone who takes this unemployment report serious is either naïve or a paid Obama campaign adviser.”
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The timing is suspicious.
Two years ago, Rush predicted a magical drop in unemployment below 8 percent just before the election.
Does anyone have the figure yet on how many people dropped out of the labor market last month? Still haven’t seen that number yet. Something is fishy.
Rick Santelli predicted exactly the same thing.
“The timing is suspicious.”
That is why it is called an “October Surprize.”
Politico are as good as paid advisors to Obama...heck Katy Couric gets her news there, she said so.
I guess that was her source for the CBS evening news
Where’s the corresponding dip in unemployment compensation claims? That may come out in a special release before November 6 by the ends-justify-the-means gang.
A mention was just made on FNC that hiring of Federal Government employees took a big jump this month. That’s all they said. I wish they had said more. This is a little suspicious.
Watch for a dip in gasoline prices before Nov. 6th. Obama is colluding with the Saudis to bring that off.
For some reason I’m thinking gas prices will also drop between now and Nov.
I don’t know why, I just got a feeling.............
We all predicted it, really. It’s just more abuse of power.
Jack Welch @jack_welch
Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago guys will do anything..can't debate so change numbers
The numbers are crap. Lots of self employed people never showed up on unemployment rolls and have simply fallen into pure odd jobs survival mode and many of them have been forced to accept food stamps.
The sellers at the local farmer’s market say they can spot them because they’re bargain shoppers. They say some are even offering to do farm work under the table.
Summer of Recovery has finally arrived in the Fall of 2012!!
If there has been any job growth at all, it occured in Republican run states, inspite of anything Obama may have done! That should be the GOP response!
Bingo.
Part-time “because I couldn’t get another job” went up 953,000
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