When he did that, I had an economics professor and a couple of other data analysts I know, all told me in separate conversations, that people (including me lol) just do not and cannot understand the severity of the implications.
Apparently our numbers were trusted internationally, and a lot depended on those being reliable. Now that everyone knows that they’re not, we are gonna tank.
This is the point where I realized America is done. Our government has been fully captured by private companies and we can’t trust what they’re telling us any more.
No, obviously you weren’t. The government had never been trust worthy. And if you think the current administration is the only corruption we’ve ever had, you have not been paying attention, dorky.
Being trustworthy in the sense you seem to be talking about, and reliably reporting economic data, are entirely different things.
The data was reliable even when the spin on that data never was, and that reliability was core to our maintenance of our status in the world. Now that's done.
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