by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:

Now they are telling us that 818,000 “jobs” that the U.S. economy supposedly “created” never actually existed at all.  As you will see below, Donald Trump is calling this a “massive scandal” and he is right.  Month after month, we are given employment numbers that are grossly overstated and everyone knows it.  The grossly overstated numbers make the economy look far better than it actually is, and if Americans perceive that the economy is doing well they will be more likely to vote for the party that is already controlling the White House.  Over the past few years, the difference between economic reality and what the government is actually reporting to us has become absolutely enormous, and many believe that this is being done for nefarious political reasons.