Re: govt. claims 7.2% rise in GDP; accurate number?????

these are the same people who claimed they had irrefuteable evidence
of WMDs in Irak. And still put out white lies with a straight face.

Believe them at yr own risk. And the "private and free" media. Everyone
seems to have stakes in misreporting ....

"Archimedes Plutonium" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I can think of several ways that the Executive branch of USA
> government has rigged the 3rd quarter GDP report.
>
> (1) just simply made an arithmetic or algebra mistake where the real
> GDP for the 3rd quarter was 3.5% and some clown computed it wrong and
> blaired out 7.2%
>
> (2) perhaps the flow of export oil from Iraq was included into the GDP
> numbers
>
> (3) perhaps the entire funding of the war in Iraq was added into the
> GDP
> computation.
>
> Anyway, we should be leery and skeptical of government reports when
> our observations of our surroundings do not agree with those reports.
> I hear of more
> job layoffs than any robust economy. So I think more people should ask
> for a
> "check up on how the GDP number" was derived. Whether there was any
> changes in
> how the number is computed.
>
> Archimedes Plutonium
> whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
> of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies