lies, damned lies, and statistics

Remember when Obama and his minions were selling the stimulus bill with claims that it will create or save 2.8 million jobs? And instead, the unemployment went up while the number of jobs decreased to 129.7 million from 133.9 million?

Well, Obama's Department of Labor is caught fudging the numbers. And embarrassingly so.

An inconvenient truth, at least for the Obama Administration, is that once upon a time, in their January 2009 Romer/Bernstein Report they told America that without their stimulus there would be 133.9 million jobs. That’s right, in order to make it look like their stimulus has “created or saved” 2.8 million jobs, the Obama Administration first had to whack 7 million jobs from their previous estimates."

What it comes down to is that the baseline for jobs keeps moving as unemployment rises. We could lose 20 million jobs and Obama's Ministry of Truth will still claim that we actually "created or saved" some.

If Bush did this, we'd never hear the end of it. With Obama, we never hear about it at all except in the new medium of the internet. I don't know which one I'd hang first: the media "elite" or the politicians.