- "We weren't doin' nothing at Montebello 'cept decidin'
on what it means to be a jelly bean.... and what 'chocolate' means."
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- - Bush, Harper and Calderone
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- When the leaders of countries get together - with a 25-mile
security perimeter guarded by machine gun toting thugs in police uniforms
and the announcement regarding what they were doing was discussing jelly
beans and chocolate, you know something is amiss.
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- While the above is amusing in a very sad kind of way,
the subject of definitions - or more precisely, coding definitions for
computer systems is anything but amusing. It's critically important in
the way the computer systems accumulate statistics, report on the statistics
and most especially in the way you interpret the reports on those statistics.
By way of example, consider the word, "manufacturing". Unless
you are a green-eye shade government economist trained within the last
decade or so, your perception of manufacturing is a plant that assembles
a product - a tangible good for sale most often to a wholesaler. However,
in the 'New World Order' - a world managed by HAL1, the definition of
manufacturing changed as are the definitions of jelly beans and chocolate
changing.
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- The importance of statistical reports cannot be overstated.
The modern world runs on these statistical reports as evidenced by the
statements of government and business leaders regarding the "Economic
Census" reports:
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- The Economic Census is indispensable to understanding
America's economy. It insures the accuracy of the statistics we rely on
for sound economic policy and for successful business planning. Returning
your economic census form helps us all." --Alan Greenspan, Chairman
of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors
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- "Sound and timely economic data are the fuel that
powers economic decision making. Data are used by Congress, the Federal
Reserve, regulatory agencies, and American businesses to formulate and
evaluate fiscal, monetary, and regulatory policies and to develop business
plans and financing strategies. Without sound economic data, policy makers
in both the public and private sector would be flying blind.
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- "The current economic statistics that most people
are familiar with, like retail sales and the Gross Domestic Product, all
have their origins in the data that are collected in the 5-year economic
censuses. So when we rely on, and others rely on, those current economic
statistics, for policy decisions, they really are relying on the quality
of the economic census data.
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- U.S. Census Bureau
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- North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
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- "The United States has a new industry classification
system! On April 9, 1997, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced
its decision to adopt the North American Industry Classification System
(NAICS pronounced Nakes) as the industry classification system used by
the statistical agencies of the United States. NAICS replaces the 1987
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC).
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- NAICS is a unique, all-new system for classifying business
establishments. It is the first economic classification system to be
constructed based on a single economic concept. Economic units that use
like processes to produce goods or services are grouped together. This
"production-oriented" system means that statistical agencies
in the United States will produce data that can be used for measuring
productivity, unit labor costs, and the capital intensity of production;
constructing input-output relationships; and estimating employment-output
relationships and other such statistics that require that inputs and outputs
be used together.
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- NAICS is the first-ever North American industry classification
system. The system was developed by the Economic Classification Policy
Committee (ECPC), on behalf of the OMB, in cooperation with Statistics
Canada and Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía
e Informática (INEGI) to provide comparable statistics across the
three countries. For the first time, government and business analysts
will be able to compare directly industrial production statistics collected
and published in the three North American Free Trade Agreement countries.
NAICS also provides for increased comparability with the International
Standard Industrial Classification System (ISIC, Revision 3), developed
and maintained by the United Nations."
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- If the government redefines jelly beans as "jellied
sugar lumps", does that mean there is a shortage of jelly beans when
the report shows zero?
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- Beware of Crooks in White Shirts and Ties
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- Redefining the codes that produce the reports that the
Congress, the media and everybody else uses to gage the health of the
economy was a bamboozle of epic purportions. This puts the ENRON, Worldcom,
etc. accounting scandals to shame. Changing codes produced 'shortages'
in some categories - and over abundances in others. An example of how
the statistics changed with the new coding system was shown in a slide
show produced by the U.S. Census bureau on the 'Economic Census'. Change
the codes.... and Voila! Shortages of Qualified American Workers... in
all categories. And it enabled "The Economy is Booming" message
while in the real world of the domestic economy there is a Depression.
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- NAICS ASSOCIATION
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- "The SIC, however, treated the production of goods
for other establishments of the same enterprise differently. If a manufacturing
establishment produced goods for use within the enterprise, the manufacturing
establishment was classified according to its primary activity, not the
primary activity of the establishment it served. This different treatment
of service producing versus manufacturing auxiliary establishments was
inconsistent and NAICS recognized this inconsistency. NAICS classifies
auxiliary establishments based on what they do, not on whom they serve.
The production oriented concept of NAICS mandated this change.
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- This change will result in significant shifts in employment
data. In 1992, Census data showed over 1,000,000 auxiliary employees
assigned to manufacturing and over 840,000 auxiliary employees assigned
to retail trade. These employees are most likely to move to either the
Management of Companies and Enterprises sector; the Warehousing and Storage
sub sector; the Computer Systems Design and Related Services sub sector;
the Accounting, Tax Preparation, Bookkeeping and Payroll Services sub
sector; or some other services- related sub sector. For the 1997 Economic
Census, these auxiliary establishments will be dual coded by primary activity
and by whom they serve. The data will be shown separately to provide data
users with the necessary links to prior information."
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- [Note: the above implies that after 1997, the links to
prior information were eliminated and the conversion to the new system
was complete].
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- This is no doubt why "economists surprised by latest
unemployment increases" has become boilerplate in economic news stories
and yet.... the national unemployment statistics don't vary much from
around the 412 percent figure. It explains why at the time when there
were record bankruptcies, record foreclosures, lines at the food banks
extending for a quarter mile in Ohio, the newspapers were reporting a
"booming economy".
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- And that's not the worst of it. The same people who
were inside players on the SCAM of redefinition of the codes for U.S.
economic reports - are the same people who are pushing "reform"
of our education system to be a supply-chain management system for business
to fulfill the 'orders' caused by the 'Shortages' of qualified American
Workers.
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- National Association of Manufacturers
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- U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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- Regionalism and Education - Central Planning and 'Regional
Economic AUTHORITIES'
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- History of the 1997 Economic Census
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- "In June 1994, the Census Bureau reorganized the
Economic Directorate to facilitate conducting both the 1997 Economic Census
and the agency's current economic programs. The Census Bureau established
the Economic Planning and Coordination Division (EPCD) to provide centralized
planning."
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- OMB Announcement 1994
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- In a Federal Register notice of July 26, 1994 (59 FR
38092-38096), OMB announced that the ECPC had agreed to work in concert
with Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía
e Informática (INEGI) and Statistics Canada to develop a new and
common industry classification system the North American Industry Classification
System (NAICS) that would replace the existing system used in the United
States, the Standard Industrial Classification System (SIC). Final agreement
on NAICS was announced in a Federal Register notice of April 9, 1997 (62
FR 17287-17337). This agreement resulted in the publication in 1998 of
the new North American Industry Classification System, United States,
1997 manual.
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- Senator Judd Gregg, "We Do Have A Centrally Managed
Economy", 2007
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- A final note in this commentary is a warning.... the
people who are the controllers of the government codes and computer systems
(IT computer consulting corporations in charge of government facilities)
can and will continue to "tweak" the codes to manipulate the
reports to serve THEIR economic interests... not the interests of the
American people and our country. It's a classic example of the tail wagging
the dog. To be more precise.... the corporate takeover of government
computer systems by computer consulting firms was a coup d'etat on the
U.S. government - an administrative coup d'etat.
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- Vicky Davis,
- August 24, 2007
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- Vicky L. Davis was a Computer Systems Analyst/Programmer
who spent 20 years designing and writing computer systems for large corporations
and state and local governments. For 15 of those years, she worked as
a Contractor, which gave her exposure to a wide variety of different businesses
and their internal applications and operations. She has traveled extensively
and has lived in nine states in the course of her life's adventure.
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- 1. HAL was the computer in the 1968 movie, 2001 Space
Odyssey
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