Letter: Statistics are often odd

I love government statistics. I think it’s really neat the way they compute things. In April, gasoline prices rose 5.8 percent but the government adjusted that to a 0.2 percent drop because gasoline normally rises this time of the year.

I’m getting the drift. In 2003, oil sold for $25 a barrel. In 2008, oil goes for $125 a barrel. Some of you might say this is a 500 percent increase. Not by government adjustment. Divide the 500 percent by the mount of years, six, one sees this is only an 83.3 percent rise and was inevitable.

I make $10 an hour and my cost of living was $9. In 2008, my cost of living is now $12. My boss wouldn’t give me a raise to $15 an hour and with the help of many credit cards I’m doing just fine.

One of my neighbor’s governments adjusted himself into being a millionaire and is living like a king. The other day, I saw a foreclosure sign in front of his house. That sonofagun government adjusted that sign into a two-closure, and the mortgage company couldn’t do a thing about it.

He is so good at this that the government hired him to do their statistics — even gave him a six-figure salary which the government adjusted, and darned if he isn’t a millionaire again.

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