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U.S. Jobs Propaganda Gets More Desperate

I wonder if Jeff Nielson would like to make explicit the reason the BLS has been lying for thirty years. Lowballing unemployment numbers has obviously helped both Republican and Democratic administrations over that period. BLS employees are career bureaucrats and cannot be voted out of office. If their motives are political, why are they helping both parties? If they are not political, how do they enhance their professional reputations by lying? Does our muckraking author endorse the George Wallace/ Noam Chomsky view that there is not a dime's worth of difference between the two parties? Is the BLS in the service of Uncle Sam-- whichever party is in power? What does that make Nielson's cheerleaders: anarchists? Don't replace this government. Replace government with . . . what? "People power"? Or Canadian commodities.