Obama's Data

It's interesting to me that they chose to emphasize the 2nd derivative of jobs (we're looking at the slope of the job loss/month).<p>It's not good, it's not getting better, it's just getting worse slower, with hope of getting better soon.

This is the landing page for a political campaign. It has a graph on it. That makes it a landing page for a political campaign... with a graph on it.<p>Here's another page with a graph in it, from the same data source:<p><a href="http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_tool=latest_numbers&#38;series_id=LNS14000000" rel="nofollow">http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_too...</a><p>Pesky things, those graphs.

These graphs are interesting. <a href="http://www.nowandfutures.com/key_stats.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nowandfutures.com/key_stats.html</a> Sudden and massive deflation? That usually means rampant and almost insurmountable job loss is just around the corner.<p><a href="http://www.nowandfutures.com/key_stats.html#pain_misery" rel="nofollow">http://www.nowandfutures.com/key_stats.html#pain_misery</a> "Pain and misery index": unemployment plus consumer price index.<p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/inflation/2007-06-13-inflation-usat_N.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/inflation/2007-06-13-i...</a> <a href="http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/05/core-measures-o.html" rel="nofollow">http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/05/core-measures...</a>

Now give us one that shows how adjusted household income has changed over those years. I bet it's not turned around quite so nicely.

This graph discounts one thing, using massive deficit spending to accomplish this and have no real infrastructure improvements at the end will leave a debt-hole which will become impossible to service. The price for this profligacy will likely be collapse.

Funny. I thought this was Obama's data:<p><a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obam...</a>

There exist 3 kinds of lies. Correlation does not imply causation.

Have we finally reached the point where people can post straight up propaganda (from the official Obama site no less) and no one flags it?

It says it's a graph of "job loss." Negative job loss (= positive job gain) should be a good thing...

If they're willing to go trillions into debt for this 'recovery', why not just give everyone a guaranteed basic income of 1000 dollars a month, that comes to about 3.5 trillion. In teturn, scrap welfare and minimum wage and bailouts to banks, and you might have a thriving economy where everyone chooses how to spend their time.