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Former BLS Commissioner Wm. Beach has been everywhere. This was so dumb Sen. Rand Paul says it's bad
“We have to look somewhere for objective statistics. When the people providing the statistics are fired, it makes it much harder to make judgments that, you know, the statistics won’t be politicized,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said in an interview. “You can’t really make the numbers different or better by firing the people doing the counting.”