NewsBusters has the latest report regarding food stamps usage in the United States. Of course, the number of Americans on the program continues to increase, but the big news is that the July report – the last one before the election – has been revised up by 150,000! Needless to say, the rest of the media is ignoring this story.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its latest report on food stamp program participation through September today. I received the email alerting me to the release at 5:17 p.m., so it seems reasonable to believe that USDA and the Barack Obama administration wanted the new data to get as little attention as possible (as will be seen later, it’s currently getting none). If so, they have two probable reasons for wishing to minimize its impact.
The first and more obvious of the two is that the food stamp rolls increased by over 607,000 in September to 47.71 million, yet another all-time record. That’s awful enough, but here’s the real kicker: the participation figure for July, the last month of data available before Election Day, was revised up by over 150,000, changing that month’s reported increase from 11,600 to just under 166,000. As will be seen after the jump, no other month’s data was revised except August, where the changes were infinitesimal.
The clumsy data-massagers at USDA missed over 154,319 participants in July but somehow managed to account for every household. This doesn’t even pass the stench test.
Not surprising.
When a group of people – in this case government employess and bureaucrats – are led by a proven liar who lies continuously and without consequence, that group wiil adopt the same habits and lie whenever it suits them to further their perceived needs and goals, which now seems to be all the time.
After four years of a president that has openly and repeatedly lied to America without a scintilla of concern or consequence, it becomes obvious we can no longer trust any employee, bureaucrat or agency under his control to tell the truth, no matter the situation.
We are all now in the hands of a government without honor, ethics or morals, led by a man who has no honor, ethics or morals and who sits in the Oval Office under a false flag of citizenship.
This administration must lie to the American people. If the truth was widely known, this disgusting pretender to the throne would be thrown out on his ears, along with his stablefull of radicals and communists.
What we need is a modern-day Hercules to clean out the stables.
If the reference to Hercules and the stables is beyond you, you shouldn’t be reading this blog.
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What. The. Heck. Up by 150k? That didn’t take long…
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