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The Former General Electric CEO Has Accused the White House of Cooking Jobs Numbers

Jack Welch, the former CEO of GE, took to Twitter this morning to accuse the Obama administration of manipulating the jobs numbers to give the President a boost in the polls. This morning saw the jobless rate fall to the lowest percentage it has in Obama's presidency, and Welch wasn't buying it, saying that "these Chicago guys will do anything." The Bureau of Labor Statistics has spent all morning dismissing the claims as "ludicrous." Steve Haugen, a 30-year veteran of the BLS, said that "The data are not manipulated for political reasons. I've been involved in the process myself for almost three decades. There's never been any political manipulation of the data, period" ...

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Anonymous commented…

Wait...Alec Baldwin's character on 30 Rock is named Jack...nah. Nevermind.

megan

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megan commented…

It's sad when people can't be happy that jobs are being created just because they don't like the president...

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Horsefly commented…

He was the CEO of a huge company. I would guess that he may have a different perspective than Obama and the BLS. To blow him off as just another Obama hater is pretty lame.

Joshua

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Joshua commented…

I agree with you Megan.

Horsefly, he's not the CEO of all jobs, ever. If he thinks the numbers are cooked, he needs to show proof.

But firing off an conspiratorial accusation on Twitter without proof
makes you look like a "hater", whether he's a former CEO or a smug teenager.

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TopKat commented…

It has come out in the last few days that in fact... "one large state failed to report their numbers"... and the resulting 'improvement' is actually not true.

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