Since Obama is not fixing the economy….Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever.
It is a big problem.
All the news stories are negative and his poll numbers and dropping like a stone.
What to do….What to do…..Maybe lying will work. Yeah let’s do that.
If the numbers don’t tell the story you are looking to tell, just change the numbers. Use different math. Use a different language. Confuse the situation. Change the labeling. Hopefully when all the dust settles everyone will think the economy is doing great. It is all about illusion.
Today when Apple makes an iphone (in Communist Red China) that Iphone is considered an import, (when it is shipped back to the United States). Since everything is made in China that really makes the trade deficit look bad.
But what if we no longer consider American companies products (made in China) as an import? How would the numbers look then? I bet they would look freakin spectacular.
Is it honest? Of course it is not honest. Honesty is for sissy’s.
Corporations and Government are all about lying their azz off. When in doubt…. lie. That is taught day one in any good business school.
Don’t call it offshoring….That sounds really bad. It makes unemployed Americans upset as they stare at their pile of unpaid bills. Instead call it “Factoryless Goods”. That sounds much better. That will make for much friendlier headlines.
If you want US Manufacturing wages to appear to have gone up, then just count white collar workers as Manufactures. That will make the average go up. That will create positive headlines. There is no down side.
Obamas plan is to do exactly these shady, deceptive things.
26,000 people have already written his administration to complain.
Most people have NO IDEA this is even being considered. None! If they did know they would probably be real mad. Make sure you don’t tell anyone. An educated public really throws a monkey wreck into Obamas “Man of the People” image.
More than 26,000 people nationwide have submitted comments opposing Obama administration proposals that would severely distort U.S. job and trade data by reclassifying U.S. corporations that offshore American jobs as "factoryless goods" manufacturers.
Under a broad data reclassification plan, much of the value of U.S. brand-name goods assembled by foreign workers and imported here for sale would no longer be counted as imported goods, but rather as manufacturing "services" imports. This would deceptively deflate the U.S. manufacturing trade deficit.
The "factoryless goods" proposal, designed by the administration's Economic Classification Policy Committee (ECPC), also would, overnight, falsely increase the reported number of U.S. manufacturing jobs as white-collar employees in firms like Apple – now rebranded as "factoryless goods producers" – would suddenly be counted as "manufacturing" workers. This shift also would create a false increase in U.S. manufacturing wages and output.
"The only reason you would classify an iPhone made in China as a U.S. export is to hide the size of our massive trade deficit," saidJames P. Hoffa, Teamsters general president.
(The Teamsters supported Obama and the Democrats. Obama gives them the middle finger in return. What does Obama care. Are the teamsters going to vote for Republicans? No chance. Obama can continue kicking his supporters in the teeth and there will be no consequences.)
"To revive American manufacturing jobs and production, we need to change our policies, not cook the data," said Brad Markell, executive director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council. "We need to reform the trade policies that have incentivized offshoring and resulted in decades of trade deficits and millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs offshored, not cover up the evidence that our current trade policy is not working."
One element of the proposed economic data reclassification plan would rebrand U.S. imports of goods manufactured abroad, such as Apple's iPhone (which is assembled in China by a firm called Foxconn) as "services" imports rather than imports of manufactured goods. And if Foxconn exported iPhones to other countries, the proposed
reclassifications would count the iPhones manufactured in China as U.S. manufactured goods exports, further belying the real U.S. manufacturing trade deficit.
The economic data reclassification initiative, if implemented, could further undermine efforts to bolster U.S. manufacturing by producing a fabricated reduction of the U.S. manufacturing trade deficit.
"These Orwellian data rebranding proposals would hide the damage wrought by past trade pacts like the North American Free Trade Agreement, greasing the way for more-of-the-same, job-killing, deficit-boosting trade deals," said Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch.
