The U.S. government in the final months leading up to the 2012 presidential election released “faked” unemployment data, according to a bombshell report from the New York Post.
If These Claims by Reliable Sources Are Proven True, the Obama Administration Will Be Dealing With Another Huge Scandal
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama (Getty Images)
Recall that the unemployment rate from August to September dropped precipitously to 7.8 percent from 8.1 percent. This raised more than a few eyebrows, most notably from former General Electric CEO Jack Welch.
“Unbelievable jobs numbers,” Welch said in an Oct. 5 tweet, “these Chicago guys will do anything…can’t debate so change numbers.”
He was quickly attacked by cable news pundits and branded by one group as an “unemployment-rate truther.”
But if appears Welch’s suspicions may have not been so farfetched after all.
The pre-election numbers were “manipulated” and the government agency responsible for the report (the U.S. Census Bureau) knew it, the Post alleges, citing “reliable sources.”...
...The source, who said he’s willing to speak to the Labor Department and Congress about the false data if asked to do so, said unemployment data manipulation continues to this day.
And the manipulation supposedly involves more than just one rogue employee.
The one employee who was caught two years ago, one Julius Buckmon, told the Post that he cooked the data at the direction of his supervisors.
The Post’s John Crudele explains how Buckmon supposedly manipulated the data:
Ironically, it was Labor’s demanding standards that left the door open to manipulation.
Labor requires Census to achieve a 90 percent success rate on its interviews — meaning it needed to reach 9 out of 10 households targeted and report back on their jobs status.
Census currently has six regions from which surveys are conducted. The New York and Philadelphia regions, I’m told, had been coming up short of the 90 percent.
So how did Philadelphia fill the gap? With fake interviews, according to the Post.
“It was a phone conversation — I forget the exact words — but it was, ‘Go ahead and fabricate it’ to make it what it was,” Buckmon said.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...on-will-be-dealing-with-another-huge-scandal/
If These Claims by Reliable Sources Are Proven True, the Obama Administration Will Be Dealing With Another Huge Scandal
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama (Getty Images)
Recall that the unemployment rate from August to September dropped precipitously to 7.8 percent from 8.1 percent. This raised more than a few eyebrows, most notably from former General Electric CEO Jack Welch.
“Unbelievable jobs numbers,” Welch said in an Oct. 5 tweet, “these Chicago guys will do anything…can’t debate so change numbers.”
He was quickly attacked by cable news pundits and branded by one group as an “unemployment-rate truther.”
But if appears Welch’s suspicions may have not been so farfetched after all.
The pre-election numbers were “manipulated” and the government agency responsible for the report (the U.S. Census Bureau) knew it, the Post alleges, citing “reliable sources.”...
...The source, who said he’s willing to speak to the Labor Department and Congress about the false data if asked to do so, said unemployment data manipulation continues to this day.
And the manipulation supposedly involves more than just one rogue employee.
The one employee who was caught two years ago, one Julius Buckmon, told the Post that he cooked the data at the direction of his supervisors.
The Post’s John Crudele explains how Buckmon supposedly manipulated the data:
Ironically, it was Labor’s demanding standards that left the door open to manipulation.
Labor requires Census to achieve a 90 percent success rate on its interviews — meaning it needed to reach 9 out of 10 households targeted and report back on their jobs status.
Census currently has six regions from which surveys are conducted. The New York and Philadelphia regions, I’m told, had been coming up short of the 90 percent.
So how did Philadelphia fill the gap? With fake interviews, according to the Post.
“It was a phone conversation — I forget the exact words — but it was, ‘Go ahead and fabricate it’ to make it what it was,” Buckmon said.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...on-will-be-dealing-with-another-huge-scandal/
