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cuy rated 5 months ago- From the page: "Yet the Bush administration has decided to shut down this site because of *budgetary constraints*,effective March 1:" he says "Yuh can't let the terrist access this type of infermation 'bout yer cuntree. They'll think we're in some sort o recession. It's not. It's a slowdown ya see. There's a difrence." Who's going to scrape all the layers of manure from the last 7 years off of our country??
- dumolebrad rated 5 months ago
- From the page: "In its e-mail announcement on the closing of Economic Indicators, the Department of Commerce acknowledged the "inconvenience" and offered "a free quarterly subscription to STAT-USA" instead. Once this temporary subscription runs out, however, the public will be forced to pay a fee. So not only will economic data be more hidden, it will also cost money."
- pamur rated 5 months ago
- It seems like another case of Bush enlightened ignorance. Since ignorance is bliss then no news is indeed good news.
Until this century I always thought that one of the most important functions of government was to provide unbiased and timely information which would enable citizens to make reasonable voting decisions. Those days seem to be gone. Democracy will just have to look out for itself. - It seems like another case of Bush enlightened ignorance. Since ignorance is bliss then no news is indeed good news.
- avmoor rated 5 months ago
- An insight from the same page's Comment Section - "I guess shutting down the website is the worst of all economic indicators." From the page: "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"ť 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 imports and exports, and the Census Bureau, like retail sales and durable goods shipments. 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 portal is necessary. Yet the Bush administration has decided to shut down this site because of "budgetary constraints,"ť effective March 1"
- lunaticprophet rated 5 months ago
- Bush Administration Hides More Data... From the page: "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 imports and exports, and the Census Bureau, like retail sales and durable goods shipments. 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 portal is necessary.
- Economic Indicators is particularly useful because people can sign up to receive e-mails as soon as new economic data across government agencies becomes available. While the data will still be available online at various federal websites, it will be less readily accessible to members of the public.
- Bush Administration Hides More Data... From the page: "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:
- Yoza rated 5 months ago
- At a time when it is of paramount importance for people to have access to current information about the economy and phenomena affecting national and international economic activity the Bush regime decides to close down a government website that provides such information. BRILLIANT!!
- sayit rated 5 months ago
- bush-economix hiding in a cave somewhere... 'Bush admin latest move is to hide EconomicIndicators.gov an invaluable service to the public for accessing U.S. economic data. Bush decided to shut down this site 01 March.'
- jtsnyc47 rated 5 months ago
- Did I accidently go to Digg.com? No? Please lord, do not let Thinkprogress infect this website too...
- bookwormj rated 5 months ago
- Dubya's at it again!
- kayell rated 5 months ago
- From the page: "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 administrationâ€s latest move is to simply hide the data. Forbes has awarded EconomicIndicators.gov one of its â€oeBest 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 imports and exports, and the Census Bureau, like retail sales and durable goods shipments. The site simply links to the relevant departmentâ€s Web site. This might not seem like a big deal, but doing it yourselfâ€"say, trying to find retail sales data on the Census Bureauâ€s siteâ€"is such an exercise in futility that it will convince you why this portal is necessary. Yet the Bush administration has decided to shut down this site because of â€oebudgetary constraints,” effective March 1"
