Food Stamp Usage Hits New High

According to The New York Times, the Great Recession is not only over, but ended many months ago. I suggest the editors get their heads out of their collective asses and look around at evidence to the contrary.

Here's Exhibit A: recent government statistics show about 1/8th of the entire United States population now receives federal government food stamps. That's right: one out of every eight people. That's a modern day record, as the sports announcers like to say.

This is not complicated evidence. It's freely available, and paid for with tax dollars. All one has to do to understand it is have an ability to read a simple chart and grasp a little bit of English. That might be asking too much of a newspaper that has the hubris to advertise it has the greatest reporters in the world and then have the chutzpah to add "there's no arguing that."

Meanwhile, one in eight Americans need government assistance to avoid starvation. There's no arguing that.