Statistics are great–no matter what they say, they are easy to manipulate to create whatever impression you want.
Case in point: today’s unemployment numbers from the federal government.
On the surface the jobs numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics looked fantastic. Jobs jumped by 330,000. That’s almost enough to keep up with the number of illegal aliens the Biden Administration let in!
But dig into the numbers and something surprising happens…the number of government jobs and jobs in the “private sector” that are essentially government jobs, make up a huge fraction of the increase. Then there is the permanent vs. temporary jobs, which tilt things to the worse even more.
Government jobs added: 71,000
Manufacturing jobs added: 0 https://t.co/M3dk1kFHY5 pic.twitter.com/ItSf5dkAjc
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 5, 2024
In other words, even without any…
