Reagan: "Voo Doo Economics"
Bush43: "Doo Doo Economics"
(Keep Them In The Dark, and Feed Em Bull$hit)
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Bush Administration Hides More Data, Shuts Down Website Tracking U.S.
Economic Indicators 2-14
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/13/economic-indicators/
Bush Administration Hides More Data, Shuts Down Website Tracking U.S.
Economic Indicators
The U.S. economy is faltering. Family debt is on the rise, benefits
are disappearing, the deficit is skyrocketing, and the mortgage crisis
has worsened. Conservatives have attempted to deflect attention from
the crisis, by blaming the media's negative coverage and insisting the
United States is not headed toward a recession, despite what
economists are predicting.
The Bush administration's latest move is to simply hide the data.
Forbes has awarded EconomicIndicators.gov one of its "Best of the Web"
awards. As Forbes explains, the government site provides an invaluable
service to the public for accessing U.S. economic data:
This site is maintained by the Economics and Statistics Administration
and combines data collected by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, like
GDP and net im****ts and ex****ts, and the Census Bureau, like retail
sales and durable goods ****pments. The site simply links to the
relevant department's Web site. This might not seem like a big deal,
but doing it yourself-say, trying to find retail sales data on the
Census Bureau's site-is such an exercise in futility that it will
convince you why this ****tal is necessary.
Yet the Bush administration has decided to shut down this site because
of "budgetary constraints," effective March 1:
http://www.economicindicators.gov/
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