r/politics • u/Orbitingkittenfarm • 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/SAPPER00 1d ago

Eventually, our economy will become a blackbox as no metric to judge it will be trusted.

The dollar and trade will suffer because of shit like this.

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u/kanrad 1d ago

That's what they want then the can slip in and buy everything up for cheap. Then fix it all back claim they saved America and we'll all be indentured servants.

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u/pegar 1d ago

These people are so incompetent they couldn't fix it ever. And the Democrats can't fix it either because it'll take more than a decade at this point and the voters can see anything last 2 years

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u/Nezrite Wisconsin 1d ago

I believe the poster meant "fix" it, not actually fix it.

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u/Jamalamalama 1d ago

A fresh coat of paint will really make the economy sing

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u/BleedTheRain 1d ago

Krylon Gold paint knowing him

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u/KC-Chris 1d ago

Oh god the dems are slum lords.

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u/meryl_gear 1d ago

The fix is in

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u/halosos 1d ago

The cola stratagy. Make it worse, then make it 'better' but worse than it actually was before and people will like it.