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Trump fires BLS commissioner for reporting his terrible jobs numbers

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by WarDamnGator, Aug 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM.

  1. WC53

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    If only there was math to check the work.
     
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  2. PITBOSS

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    “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.”

    North Carolina senator Thom Tillis, Republican
     
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    So what you're saying is that Biden should have fired her since the correction was made while he was in office (in August 2024) and implicitly the revision adversely affected his economic policy. The situation actually parallels what happened under Trump. BLS revised the previously overstated total number of jobs in its August 2024 report implicitly reflecting negatively on Biden yet he did nothing. In August 2025 BLS revised the total number of jobs downward correcting previously stated overly optimistic numbers and unlike Biden a year earlier the apparently butt hurt current POTUS fired the Commissioner in a case of responding to the message by firing the messenger.
     
  4. tripsright

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    Where are the ppl that were OPs of recent, economy related threads, more favorable to trump, based on invalid numbers??
    I would think they’d be kinda upset.

    Hello??? Anybody out there???
     
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  5. Gatorrick22

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    Fire the liar!
     
  6. WC53

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    Even Trumps ex BLS guy is blasting the move.

    Certainly no quitters in the supporters.
     
  7. obgator

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    We don’t trust Arabic numbers, duh!!