Once upon a time, the U.S. government’s official figures were considered the gold standard of information. If a government agency declared that employment was up and inflation was down, no one questioned it. Everything the government declared was taken as incontrovertible fact.
No more.
The list of government bureaucrats outright lying to the American citizens they are supposed to serve is, unfortunately, a long one. Everything from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention head Dr. Rachel Wolensky belatedly admitting that mRNA vaccines do not in fact prevent the transmission of Covid-19 after we were repeatedly told the exact opposite to the Biden administration’s whopper about the number of jobs it created (Hint: it wasn’t even close to “16 million”).
Then there was the ridiculous claim that Joe Biden inherited a raging rate of inflation (it was just 1.4 percent when President Trump left office in 2021). And that the Democrats were reducing the federal budget, instead of increasing deficit spending by $287 billion.
According to government figures, there are about 11 million illegal aliens in the country, but experts at the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimate that the number is closer to 16.8 million.
Not to mention the absurd claim that even with electronic voting machines, optical scanners, early and mail-in voting, some counties cannot declare the winner on Election Day – and that delays counting ballots cannot be helped.
For decades, winners were called on Election Day by people hand counting paper ballots. But we are now supposed to believe that the use of all the new technology slows down the process instead of speeding it up.
The government’s lack of credibility on virtually any subject stands in marked contrast to its massive data-gathering activities. For example, the Federal Bureau of Investigation used cell phone data to find and harass individuals who were in the District of Columbia on Jan. 6, 2021 even if they didn’t set foot in the Capitol Building. But it conveniently “lost count” of the number of paid informants who were also there that day.
We live in dangerous times when political expediency and naked ambition become more important than the truth. Hopefully the incoming administration will weed out these “good Germans” in government who have completely lost their moral compasses and are willing to lie to get ahead.
Meanwhile, Americans should take any official government pronouncement with a large grain of salt.