“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.”
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.