'What’s the matter with these young e”con”omiser jokers at the BLS, can’t they handle a simple job like this?'
the difficult part, of course, is tweaking the numbers so that they look both plausible and hit the mark that they've been ordered to hit.
actually, my own guess is that its just so much more likely that the delay is there to give time to the banks to prepare for the numbers, as in jan and feb and march. when they were switching to new computers. lol. yeah, like i believe that: you switch to new computers, takes you two months to rewrite your software and -- oops! -- old computers are offline! that's how IT was done before i was born; and, although it *is* the federal gov, i still can't believe that they're that incompetent.
hey, did ya notice how the bush economy commercials, starting on the day of the last bls jobs numbers, already had the correct count of jobs gained? so either they were editing that up until the last minute, or it was already known in advance ... or they just told the bls, hey, the commercial says this, so don't make us liars ...
