As hard as the administration tries to mask its ineptitude, sooner or later the truth always surfaces. Whether that be in regard to staged public appearances to reflect more support than actual, changing formulations for calculating unemployment statistics or health care plan enrollments, or by flat-out misrepresentation regarding administration incompetence in general, such as the VA or Secret Service protection, the public finds out the truth eventually.
In today’s case, a University of Michigan consumer confidence and February retail sales reports released on Thursday surprised economists and investors with another dose of “underwhelming” news. Overall, U.S. economic data have been falling
Bloomberg reports that, “The Bloomberg ECO U.S. Surprise Index, which measures whether data beat or miss forecasts, fell to the lowest since 2009, when the nation was in the deepest recession since the Great Depression. Results were short of prognosticators' expectations by the most in six years.”
While noting that the only good news was that the economy added 295,000 jobs in February and 1.3 million over four months, “a reflection of a healthier labor market,” Bloomberg went on to report that, “the unemployment rate has fallen to the lowest in almost seven years.” However, that’s not the case whereas the change hasn’t occurred in the labor market, the change has been made in the data used in the calculation which now omits the long-term unemployed completely. Making the administration look far better than actual.
On the down side were several items indicating that the economy’s performing quite poorly, whereas, “this month alone, personal income and spending, manufacturing as measured by the Institute for Supply Management, auto sales, factory orders, and retail sales have all come in a bit weak, as reflected in the following chart. Reflecting world-wide economic status.
The chart statistics are additional proof that despite all the speeches and promises made by the president and those around him to the contrary, actual results indicate otherwise. But that should come as no surprise to anyone paying attention, whereas their objective has been to bring the nation down to third-world status for more than six years now. And in that regard, they’re succeeding as planned.
In today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife, Peggy Noonan writes in wsj.com/articles, that “Maybe we’re not stuck in Scandal Land.”
Ms Noonan explains that, “For a while I’ve assumed Hillary Clinton would run for her party’s nomination and be a formidable candidate in the general election. After Tuesday’s news conference I’m not so sure.
“Did she seem to you a happy, hungry warrior? She couldn’t make eye contact with her questioners, and when she did she couldn’t sustain it. She looked at the ceiling and down at notes, trying, it seemed, to stick to or remember scripted arguments. She was shaky. She couldn’t fake good cheer and confidence. It is seven years since she ran for office. You could see it.”
The article itself contains considerable interesting thoughts, which evidently stimulated many readers. As of right now there are 1281 comments, so here’s a link: NOONAN- Hillary Seems Tired, Not Hungry
Aside from a change in attitude, however, Bill’s wife has also now got a growing list of self-perpetuated problems.
According to Fox News.com, “A State Department spokeswoman said Friday that the department did not start automatically archiving emails from senior officials until February of this year -- raising questions about Hillary Clinton's claim that her emails were "immediately" saved whenever she corresponded with colleagues.”
Although Bill’s wife said on Tuesday that, "The vast majority of my work emails went to government employees at their government addresses, which meant they were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the State Department.”
“But department spokeswoman Jen Psaki made clear on Friday that this was not the way the system worked. She said the department only started automatically archiving emails for other senior officials in February.”
And then, Amy Chozick writes in nytimes.com, that “Judge Gladys Kessler of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the State Department to produce passenger manifests from 47 overseas trips that Mrs. Clinton made as secretary of state. Citizens United requested the manifests last July through a Freedom of Information Act Request.”
David N. Bossie, president of Citizens United. said on Friday, “Clearly, the State Department is not getting the benefit of the doubt from judges anymore.”
So, for many at present, and likely far more in the future, it seems that they aren’t just hoping that Bill’s wife decides not to run for the presidency. They're praying instead that she just disappear somewhere else altogether.
That’s it for today folks.
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