It's like a corrupt media ritual. The moment a Republican enters the Oval Office, America's homeless are suddenly discovered, dragged before news cameras, and used as props to prove how heartless the current administration is. But as soon as a Democrat assumes office, the homeless suddenly disappear – presumably to a place with chocolate rivers and peppermint trees that only Democrat presidents are able to magically manifest as soon as the oath of office is complete.
The media's been even worse with Barack
Obama. Not only have the homeless vanished from news coverage, but so
have America's poor. But as NBC's David Gregory made clear, if you even
try to bring up the record number of food stamp recipients Barack
Obama's failed policies have created, you'll be labeled a racist.
Beyond food stamps, by some reports, the poverty level itself is set to explode to record levels in the fall once a new census report
is released. But if past is prologue, you can expect the media to
smother that news, because over the last few days, the media has
smothered this news:
The number of poor Americans who
repeatedly ran short of food shot up by 800,000 in 2011 to nearly 17
million compared with 2010, the U.S. government said on Wednesday.
The Department of Agriculture
said in a report that about 5.5 percent of Americans, or nearly 17
million, suffered "very low food security" last year, meaning they had
to skip meals or not eat for a day because of a lack of money to buy
food. That is a rise of 800,000 over the prior year, it said.
The food-security report was
released one day after the government said that a record 46.7 million
Americans were enrolled for food stamps in June, up by 173,000 in May.
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