Sharpie Man Strikes Again

Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner.

Trump in a social media post said Erika McEntarfer, the BLS commissioner, would be “replaced with someone much more competent and qualified,” asserting without evidence that the government’s jobs numbers have been manipulated for political purposes.

So how did Commissioner McEntarfer fail? She released the revised actual numbers, showing a slow down in hiring and a uptick in the unemployment rate.

I'm surprised he did not get a copy of the report and work his Sharpie magic on it.

I'm sure the MAGAs have a plausible explanation.

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SomeMichGuy · M

Well, the numbers will likely be meaningless now

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@SomeMichGuy Most Americans wont get this. So far the complete collapse of the US economy has been buried by priniting money and borrowing more in the form of s trade deficit from other nations.. Now Trump has overplayed that hand by p*$$ing in the international trade soup by imposing tariffs on other countries and trying to seel Americans that the other countries will someehow be paying. (Just like mexico paid for that "greatest ever" wall) And other countries are walking away. America is sailing off the edge of the world.😷

SomeMichGuy · M

@whowasthatmaskedman ...and the printing has been greatly exacerbated by cutting taxes on those with the ability to pay.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@SomeMichGuy Agreed. However, America has two massive economic issues. Either of which will devastate the country. the internal taxation inequity, service allocation and lack of infrastructure investment that is showing up in everything from power grid to phone networks and rail and road transit. And the external (global) trade economy, where American imports outweigh its exports by trillions of dollars, year on year.. This has only been make possible by the $US being the reserve trade currency, allowing America to charge rent for using it and insist US banks get commissions for every $ in trade. This avantage is slipping with BRICS setting up an alternative and it will slip further over the next few year. This has been accellerated by trumps tariff war, and stupid bullying..
Up to this point, the US government has used the ballooning overseas debt to shield Americans from the worst of the internal issues. But trump has abandoned ever that, giving it all to the rich is a sort of Billionaires "last supper", at the expense of most Americans..😷

SomeMichGuy · M

@whowasthatmaskedman Definitely.

And his supporters just can't see it.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@SomeMichGuy And when the cracks become obvious, they will believe the blame is someone elses..😷