A lot of us were curious, and said so at the time, when the September 2012 labor market report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a sudden drop in the unemployment rate from 8.1 percent to 7.8 percent. This purported improvement was based on the claim that the household survey showed an astonishing one-month increase of 873,000 jobs! This from an economy that was typically producing fewer than 200,000 new jobs a month - and has continued to do so ever since?
That got me and others thinking: Obama said in 2009 that we had to pass his monstrous $863 billion "stimulus package" and that doing so would get the unemployment rate below 8 percent. Instead it soared to 10 percent and coming up to Election Day 2012 it still hadn't dipped below 8 percent. Then suddenly, with the miracle creation of 873,000 jobs in one month, it did? Really?
According to John Crudele at the New York Post, a source at the Census Bureau confirms that the data were indeed manipulated by an employee named Julius Buckmon, who says he was following orders from his superiors:
The decline — from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September — might not have been all it seemed. The numbers, according to a reliable source, were manipulated.
And the Census Bureau, which does the unemployment survey, knew it.
Just two years before the presidential election, the Census Bureau had caught an employee fabricating data that went into the unemployment report, which is one of the most closely watched measures of the economy.
And a knowledgeable source says the deception went beyond that one employee — that it escalated at the time President Obama was seeking reelection in 2012 and continues today.
“He’s not the only one,” said the source, who asked to remain anonymous for now but is willing to talk with the Labor Department and Congress if asked.
The Census employee caught faking the results is Julius Buckmon, according to confidential Census documents obtained by The Post. Buckmon told me in an interview this past weekend that he was told to make up information by higher-ups at Census.
I'm sure it doesn't surprise anyone reading this that the Obama Administration would be willing to lie in the labor statistics report if they thought they could get away with it. And why wouldn't they think that? Most of the media were openly rooting for Obama's re-election, and probably wouldn't call him out on the deception even if they did recognize it.
By the way, these sources say this same manipulation continues to this day.
Unemployment statistics scandal, you'll have to get in line behind Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS, and of course, ObamaCare.
We now know we the BLS reports are about as trustworthy as an Obama promise that you can keep your plan if you like your plan, which is to say, not trustworthy at all. We also know that Obama recognized before the election what was clear to me and many others - he had to lie about his record if he had any hope at all of winning. Let the truth come out, and he would be finished.
