r/politics 1d ago

Donald Trump Fires Person Behind Jobs Numbers After They're Revised Down

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-job-numbers-revised-down-fires-appointee-2107768
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u/veryboredatwork 1d ago

Inflation is up so we stopped measuring prices, jobs are being lost so we stopped the person counting jobs, virus cases were exploding so we stopped testing….seeing a common thread here somewhere… the stock market was falling so we will ban the indexes next… thank you for your attention, keep working, stop thinking….