Here’s another reason to distrust Dems and MSM

For the last five years Democrats have been telling us: Bush and the Republicans in Congress are slashing government social programs; denying the poor; hurting students; etc, etc.

Now comes this USA Today report:

A sweeping expansion of social programs since 2000 has sparked a record increase in the number of Americans receiving federal government benefits such as college aid, food stamps and health care.

A USA TODAY analysis of 25 major government programs found that enrollment increased an average of 17% in the programs from 2000 to 2005. The nation's population grew 5% during that time.

It was the largest five-year expansion of the federal safety net since the Great Society created programs such as Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s. …

So much for believing what Dems like Sens. Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy and DNC Chair Howard Dean tell us.

ut why are we just hearing about this “sweeping expansion of social programs” now?

Why, during the last five years, have MSM news organizations said so little about the expansion?

Shouldn’t they have been reporting on the expansion at least as often as on Valerie Palme’s “outing?”

Why do MSM reporters regularly repeat the Dems line that cuts in proposed social program spending increases are cuts in the programs themselves when, in fact, they’re no such thing?

The USA Today report gives us another reason to distrust Dems and their MSM allies.