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2010-05-31 Economy

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Posted by Fred 2010-05-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Lies, damned lies

and statistics

it is standard in Australia in every Government department to hide and twist and lie through statistics all the time.

Or just refuse to divulge the information - like mining royalties. They won't tell us how much they get for a specific project. They sell a billion dollars of the public's uranium to a mining company and won't tell us what they paid for it.

it's the same all over the world. US is the best of a bad lot though i'd say. More freedom of speech in your country to protect whistleblowers and the freedom of the press.

Posted by anon1 2010-05-31 04:38|| 2010-05-31 04:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Are there any numbers that are not manipulated by Washington? Any numbers you can trust? Such manipulation is just propaganda aimed at the American people.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-31 10:39|| 2010-05-31 10:39|| Front Page Top

#3 While counting heads, how many are US citizens?
Considering that these numbers give more representaion to their areas, I'd like to think they are representing citizens and not illegals.

I live in the mountains, and fairly remote in many ways. This being said, I had a census bag put on my door knob twice before I had even received my letter in the mail to fill out. Hiring census workers to follow up with folks that don't turn in their census info is one thing, paying folks to wander around taking hours to be able to only visit a few homes isn't cost efficient in my view. I'd like to think they were required to have some basic skills. It makes me wonder how accurate these numbers are when such incompetent people collected this information.

Posted by Jan 2010-05-31 15:07|| 2010-05-31 15:07|| Front Page Top

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