Waitman Gobble

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 20:21:08 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

I read an article years ago about jobs numbers, they are estimates and the real numbers follow behind months later. News media reports estimates, rarely goes back with corrections I"m guessing the Pres wants very skewed numbers to stroke his ego.

So imagine if the revision in the data — so the correction of errors — is five times bigger than the number itself. Then that makes you wonder 'well can I believe this number at all?' And I think that that's actually something that needs to be fixed, it needs to be fixed fast," Hassent said.

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/03/trump-jobs-labor-statistics-fired

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Waitman Gobble

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 04:18:43 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

I remember Bush got into some bad press over cooking the job numbers books.. i think it was a little different though, as i remember they kicked off a bunch of peoole collecting unemployment and claimed those people had jobs i guess. Obviously it should not be a big deal to help people in a pinch and also people who are able to work should not make a career out of collecting unemployment.. i think people get some amount from the unemployment insurance paid by their employer. Maybe thats a mess, of course employers dont want to pay it but also if one wants to wear big boy pants and hire employees they also have a responsibilty to the employees. Sure maybe it should be unregulated where money guys screw people into boards and throw them in the trash when they are through with them. Free trade and wild dogs stuffs. I got to a point in business where i needed to hire people but i did not want to manage employees. So i just said fuck it :) if you hear about people gushing about how great unregulated free zones are.. i know in other countries the free zone is where idiots work for half minimum wage or less and do extra hours at the same rate... no overtime pay. So they make pillows or whatever stuff they cannot afford themselves. The priblem is rent should be one weeks pay... so you get a bunch of poor people living in dirt floor huts without running water or electricity making products for middle class consumers. It's just inherently evil and greedy. Of course the top dog loves that system

But... with Bush as i recall it was just misrepresented in the jobs numbers. With bullshit numbers eventually the carefully stacked card house comes crashing down.

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 04:59:48 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Oh i went off on a tangent. When it gets ti be government handing out unemployment money is when they burn through the insurance money.

Anyhow around here trash service just went up 25%. I guess tarrifs right? :) The trash business is interesting if you don't know about it you might check it out. A private business with no competition, best buds with govt and has customers by the balls. Most placea you can't haul it anywhere or burn it in your front yard or throw it out the kitchen window Mandatory recycling is a gimmick to presort for them. And it just feels good to give them free labor. I know people can imagine a bunch of soda cans and 2 liter plastic coke bottles getting buried under the ground but the thing is the trash companies make money off the trash. Just pretend they charge you $300 a month to come pick up your trash and turn around and sell it on ebay. Very lucrative. :) obviously they aren't selling it on ebay but it's a reasonable metaphor.

Anyhow i think one of the greatest acheivements will be to eliminate trash. There is no sense in the amount of trash created.

Waitman Gobble

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 23:03:38 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Here's probably an accurate article. For some reason the Brits have no problem getting down to the meat of a story... In the USA at least lol.

Why were US job numbers which riled Trump revised down by so much? - BBC News

President Trump has fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics after the department revised down job numbers which he said were "rigged".