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The NYT is spreading scurrilous lies about the economy again:

Driven by a painful mix of layoffs and rising food and fuel prices, the number of Americans receiving food stamps is projected to reach 28 million in the coming year, the highest level since the aid program began in the 1960s.
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From December 2006 to December 2007, more than 40 states saw recipient numbers rise, and in several — Arizona, Florida, Maryland, Nevada, North Dakota and Rhode Island — the one-year growth was 10 percent or more.

In Rhode Island, the number of recipients climbed by 18 percent over the last two years, to more than 84,000 as of February, or about 8.4 percent of the population. This is the highest total in the last dozen years or more, said Bob McDonough, the state’s administrator of family and adult services…

That can’t possibly be right, of course. Because George Bush has presided over an incredible economic expansion. Remember the “52 consecutive months of job growth” that he has proudly informed us about often enough? That phenomenal and unprecedented job expansion only recently came to an end. And, sure, the economy has hiccuped a little since then, but as recently as February 28, we were clearly not “headed to a recession”.

The fruits of a robust 52-month expansion of the job market simply couldn’t be undone in just a few months, especially a few months of non-recession. There is just no way that an economy which was coasting along so wonderfully — especially on the job front — could have been reduced to a state in which the number of Americans on food stamps hits a new record high.

So clearly someone is lying to America. And it has to be the NYT. Because who else could it be?