“You can’t really make the numbers different or better by firing the people doing the counting,” said Sen. Rand Paul
Several Republican senators and right-leaning experts have criticized Trump for the decision.
“If the president is firing the statistician because he doesn’t like the numbers but they are accurate, then that’s a problem,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wy.) told The Guardian. “It’s not the statistician’s fault if the numbers are accurate and that they’re not what the president had hoped for.”
“If she was just fired because the president or whoever decided to fire the director just … because they didn’t like the numbers, they ought to grow up,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.).
“We have to look somewhere for objective statistics,” Sen. Rand Paul, (R-Ky.) told NBC News. “When the people providing the statistics are fired, it makes it much harder to make judgments that you know, the statistics won’t be politicized.”
Can’t wait for stagflation to hit the US. May Murikkkans rot in their self-made hell forever.
We are in a very dark place when Rand Paul is the voice of reason when talking about executive employees.
Do something you spineless weasels.
Look at the wording, they won’t even say he’s done anything. “If she was fired just for blah blah…”, “whoever did this blah blah”
Feckless fucking cowards. You know who’s doing this.
Yep, just a job that they can fire him from at any point. They just need the votes from their side.
They did. They wrung their hands & clutched their pearls.
Banana Republic behavior. The markets should be very scared of this
The US is basically saying that any numbers the government puts out are now as trustworthy as those put out by North Korea, China or Russia. Who the hell is gonna want to invest anything or do anything in that country when the numbers are made up to make Trump feel good. What a fucking moron.
If you have had a chance to ever get a peak at financials at large corps this tracks 100%. It’s a house of cards and it’s falling.
‘Grow up’: Conservative senators, economists slam Trump for firing labor stats chief, but will still suck his dick drive a fascist regime into power.
Went ahead and fixed that title.
We’re starting to see the type of delusion that led to the demise of the USSR. They’d commonly put quotas in place that were impossible to meet, then someone would fluff the numbers to make it look like it really happened, then the next year they’d raise the quota even further.
A great quote about this is from the series “Chernobyl”.
“Every lie told incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later the debt is paid.”
We are invoking an awful lot of debt today.
I find it funny that the “facts don’t care about your feelings” folks are starting to ignore the facts in favor of their feeling. America is not short on hypocrisy.
Starting? Conservatism basically requires that you operate on feelings because the facts never back them up. It’s basically their entire thing, and they hate that the facts tell them how wrong they are(like about how maybe white supremecy is stupid).
Obviously he plans to put someone in there who will cook the numbers in his favor.
Those senators should do humanity a favor and die.
No shit afterall they have the power to do something, but they won’t. And next week they will be on Faux news telling everyone how great this was. And just look at the good job numbers coming out of that office. They also always fall in line.
Grow up? They’re just now figuring out they’ve been supporting a petulant toddler all this time? Should have listened to the rest of us.
He outright told everyone.
“When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.”
This will make the US un-investable , like China. When there are no reliable metrics capital will move to places where the risk is acceptable.
Right, bcz nobody ever invests in China now… please. The U.S. moved our entire manufacturing sector over there, tell me thats not investment…
It’s a form of investment in the colloquial sense, but the relevant difference is between paying for physical objects that are completely outside of China’s control once they’re delivered to you and paying for shares of a Chinese company which may be fake and which the Chinese government might take away from you at any time.
There’s a tragedy of the commons going on with manufacturing. Moving all US manufacturing to China is a big risk for the entire USA, but moving one company’s manufacturing to China is good for that company (or even required to be competitive). Meanwhile investing in Chinese firms is risky for each individual investor.
The U.S. moved our entire manufacturing sector over there
Individual private enterprises made the decision to manufacture there because it’s cheaper. Not the “U.S.” and the majority of manufacturing jobs were replaced with automation.
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I’m sure Susan Collins will be concerned and Lisa Murkowski will be disappointed that he didn’t keep to some nebulous standard she expected and trump will have learned his lesson …
Commence pearl clutching in 3…2…1…
THIS is going to be the Straw to Break the Camel’s BACK! NOT the Child Rape and Jeffrey Epstein supporting! THIS!
Sadly I think that even if they do release the Epstein files MAGA is just gonna say pedophilia is alright and just stick with him. I kinda feel that it’s dying down already with people moving on to complaining about the economy.
But then what will be their excuse for hating LGBT people?
It’ll be this for the powerful who will push the (legitimate) Epstein stuff to get the plebs.
Were you just now realizing you all elected a 2 year old child into the highest office of one of the most powerful nations on the planet? Nice try suckas, you are all to blame for this shit. The lack of subtlety is very apparent you know exactly what you are all doing. Most of us still paid attention in class past 1st grade.
Yes, I just realized it this afternoon.
You fucking chowderhead.
Well I was asking the R-senators who are all acting shocked by KING™'s actions. Glad you woke up though!
Trump is acting his age: object permanence and not soiling his diapers is a incomprehensible task for him.
