Bush To Alter Economic Stats Again

Last week, the Census Bureau released statistics showing that for the first time in years, poverty had increased for three straight years, while the number of Americans without health care increased to a record level. But instead of changing its economic and health care policies, the Bush administration today is announcing plans to change the way the statistics are compiled. The move is just the latest in a series of actions by the White House to doctor or eliminate longstanding and nonpartisan economic data collection methods.

http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/read.asp?fn=df09012004.html


Because we all know it's the statistics that are to blame, not the policies...

Then again, we also all know that you can make people believe a whole lot of stuff if you hide the facts deeply enough and repeat the lies enough.