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The Bush administration department department department had a nasty gusto for perplexing to cover up bad mercantile headlines - a nasty gusto that I was closely informed with when operative on the House Appropriations Committee. One of the majority gross examples of this came in 2003. Heres the Washington Post on 1/2/03:
U.S. Drops Report On Mass Layoffs;
Data Helped States Track Patterns of Industrial Demise
By Kirstin Downey
Washington Post Staff Writer
January 2, 2003
Citing a necessity of money, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will stop edition report about bureau closings opposite the country, a preference that a little state officials and work leaders are protesting.
The monthly Labor Department analysis, well known as the Mass Layoffs Statistics report, minute where workplaces with some-more than 50 employees sealed and what kinds of workers were affected.
Luckily, given of on-going vigour and open outcry, this Bush move was overturned by Congress. But now, the same kind of thing is back. According to todays Washington Post, it looks similar to the Obama administration department department department is reprising the same scheme:
Obama administration department department department plans to close International Labor Comparisons office
By Alec MacGillis
Wednesday, Mar 3, 2010
Like a scorekeeper for the world, a little section inside of the Bureau of Labor Statistics marks globalizations winners and losers, and the formula are not regularly flattering for the United States. Manufacturing jobs here, for example, have depressed faster given 1979 than in Canada, Germany or Japan. Compensation for those jobs forsaken here in 2008 but jumped in South Korea and Australia. Soon, however, Americans might be spared the demoralization in these numbers: The White House wants to shiver the section that produces them.
In his State of the Union address, of course, Obama called for a large enlargement of the NAFTA traffic indication in to Colombia, South Korea and Panama. So you can gamble this proclamation by the White House is no collision - the preemptive.
Apparently, no make a difference that celebration is in power, when bad headlines hits, the reply is cover up the headlines - dont residence the tangible problem.
David Sirota is the writer of the best-selling books Hostile Takeover and The Uprising. He hosts the sunrise show on AM760 in Colorado and blogs at OpenLeft.com. E-mail him at ds@davidsirota.com or follow him on Twitter @davidsirota.1 &| _______________________ |
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