Government statistics at their finest

So the jobs print came out: we lost an additional 60,000 jobs in January, which meant that unemployment dropped from 10% to 9.7%.

Anyone who thinks the state should be in charge of people's lives should contemplate that stat (released to great fanfare, no less). Instead of mailing tea-bags, if we could just get the bureaucrats to use real data instead of the output of models, we'd be a lot better off (and drink more tea).