Can you read? No one has been saying that you should take the BLS numbers as gospel. Your main complaint is that _others_ (ie the lay people, as you called them, and perhaps the media) take them as gospel when they shouldn't. But you disguised that as a criticism of BLS methodology, which it's clear you really don't care about, even enough to look at what's clearly posted on their website.
Again, if people chose to ignore what the BLS numbers are, then your quibble is with them, not BLS. Your main criticism of BLS seems to be that the numbers come from government-employed, pointy-headed statisticians, who are inherently untrustworthy because they don't live with the "real" people that the economy effects, like you do. That's a posture, Nathan, not a criticism.
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