Last month the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that employment was down. The president took immediate and decisive action: He fired the person in charge of the bureau.<\/p>\n
This month the BLS again reported that employment was down. There is, of course, only one sensible course of action: The president needs to immediately fire the person he just appointed last month.<\/p>\n
And he will need to keep doing this until the numbers go the way he wants them to. I wonder how many months in a row he will need to keep firing people until those pesky numbers finally get it right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last month the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that employment was down. The president took immediate and decisive action: He fired the person in charge of the bureau. This month the BLS again reported that employment was down. There is, of course, only one sensible course of action: The president needs to immediately fire … Continue reading “Those pesky numbers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27780"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27781,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27780\/revisions\/27781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}