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

"anon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> 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 ....

Whoya' gonna believe?  
If I'm making money and living well; then the economy is good.  I
don't give a dam what the government says.
"Living well is the best revenge."-O. Wilde
 
> 
> "Archimedes Plutonium" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 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