alt Hacker News> for many years political manipulation of economic data has screwed things up
This is a myth. But a self-fulfilling one, given we’re cutting budgets to those agencies because so many Americans believe it.
> for many years political manipulation of economic data has screwed things up
This is a myth. But a self-fulfilling one, given we’re cutting budgets to those agencies because so many Americans believe it.
Yes, it's the classic "both sides" myth. It is promulgated in order to manufacture consent for doing the thing that "both sides" are supposedly already doing.