Friday, April 4, 2008

How To Distort Statistics

Auto sales are dropping dramatically now that we are in a recession. How to hide the fact? Make auto workers contract offers so bad the workers go out on strike. Striking workers cannot go on unemployment, so they do not raise the unemployment insurance requirements for the employers. They do not show up on the unemployment claims. so the economy looks better. Striking workers do not make cars, so... with fewer cars to sell, the ones already made command a higher price. no new ones being made means big auto and big govt will look better later. In the meantime, workers and their families suffer. A win-win for big biz/big govt. And here is the rest of it, delete this sentence.


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