When you fire the statistics collection people for true-but-bad news, you guarantee that you fly blind going forward, as people wont tell you bad news anymore.

We simply can’t trust government stats after this.

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    “I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump said on social media Friday, accusing her, without evidence, of politicizing the jobs report. “She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for [any] political purposes [other than my own].”

    He then added, “Thank you for your attention on this matter!”

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    What do you mean? If you stop collecting data there is no issue! Everyone knows that!

    Don’t you know how much faster Trump could have solved the pandemic?

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    Stalin already tried that tactic and it didn’t work … no matter how many people you hire, fire, change, disappear or remove, world facts and reality doesn’t care how powerful and important you think you are.