The president and his GOP cronies want to tamper with government statistics and use deceptive budget gimmicks to lie about the impact of their massive tax and budget cuts.
  • 60d@lemmy.caEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    I mean, it’s pretty easy for @sleepyleaf@sh.itjust.works to cherrypick things from a story, as most do when trying to make a point. Thanks for the impetus to actually read that article.

    My favorite part of the article happens to be about unemployment numbers. The government might say that the unemployment rate is 4.1%, but…

    If you filter the statistic to include as unemployed people who can’t find anything but part-time work or who make a poverty wage (roughly $25,000), the percentage is actually 23.7 percent. In other words, nearly one of every four workers is functionally unemployed in America today — hardly something to celebrate.

    Every administration, for a century at least, is guilty of using rose-colored glasses to look at numbers and present whatever they think will allow them to hold on to power.

    Looking at your daily life and the circumstances of your neighbors has therefore been a more valuable metric than any devised by politicians to make themselves look good.

    Thanks for your comment!

    • just_another_person@lemmy.worldOP
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      19 hours ago

      Using the framed context of an opinion piece is not “cherry picking”. It’s the motivating topic of the entire contents of the piece.

      I also think you accidentally responded with your new fakealt account instead of the one with the original comment before thanking me.

      Oopsie