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BOMBSHELL: Census Bureau "faked" 2012 jobs report to help re-elect the president

Steve RobinsonBy Steve RobinsonNovember 19, 20132 Comments1 Min Read
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The U.S. Census Bureau may have produced fraudulent job statistics in order to bolster President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election odds, according to a bombshell news report published Monday.

The allegedly fake jobs report showed a decline in unemployment from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September of 2012.

According to the New York Post report, reliable sources within the federal government now say those numbers were manipulated.

Read the full story here.

 

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Seth Berry
Seth Berry
12 years ago

“Reliable sources” and “New York Post” don’t often appear in the same sentence. But making up numbers – that is an area of real expertise for them.

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chaussures prada
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plus grand crime contre l’humanité

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