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To: reaper who wrote (144712)	1/18/2002 4:39:29 PM
From: JHP	Respond to of 436258

excellent summation!

To: reaper who wrote (144712)	1/18/2002 4:46:22 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Respond to of 436258

I am personally of the opinion that the ENTIRE change in the government's relative fiscal position since 1996 was created by this statistical sleight of hand If you are right, then once the impetus from the change wears out the "surplus" will turn back into a deficit on the same order it was before the change. Oh... ;-)

To: reaper who wrote (144712)	1/18/2002 6:00:23 PM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 436258

Understood. But as I suspected, there was a disconnect between the alleged rigging of data announcements--which I disagreed with-- and your perfectly valid explanation of policy decisions that are made, out in the open for people to see, about collecting the data. After a certain number of years of surfing the Internet and seeing people ranting and raving that the government is all crooked, the government lies to people, and today, that the unemployment figures were rigged, I had to speak up. There really aren't little green men hiding behind doors performing voodoo on the data. And there isn't someone telling BLS that on this particular day or another day, they should "spin" the numbers a certain way. That's all I meant. Enuff said on the subject, for now and by me, at least. Maybe we all learned something. I did. Thanks.