{"id":17271,"date":"2022-04-06T15:31:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T19:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=17271"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T19:35:11","slug":"corrupt-federal-statistics-cover-endless-cons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/06\/corrupt-federal-statistics-cover-endless-cons\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrupt Federal Statistics Cover Endless Cons"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"pb-3\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title h2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fff.org\/explore-freedom\/article\/corrupt-federal-statistics-cover-endless-cons\/\">Corrupt Federal Statistics Cover Endless Cons<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ffflogo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6071\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ffflogo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p class=\"published-by pt-2 pb-1 m-0\">by <span class=\"vcard\"><span class=\"author fn\"><a title=\"Posts by James Bovard\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fff.org\/author\/james-bovard\/\" rel=\"author\">James Bovard<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"entry-content pb-3 clearfix\">\n<div class=\"article-icons-top d-flex align-items-center mb-3\">\n<div class=\"social-share-buttons d-flex align-items-center noprint pl-1\"><strong>Federal agencies don\u2019t count what politicians don\u2019t want to know.<\/strong> President Joe Biden and other Democrats perennially invoke \u201cscience and data\u201d to sanctify all their COVID-19 mandates and policies. B<strong>ut the same shenanigans and willful omissions that have characterized COVID data have perennially permeated other federal programs.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>During his update on his Winter COVID Campaign in December, President Biden declared, \u201cAlmost everyone who has died from COVID-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated.\u201d This was true from the start of the pandemic in early 2020 until the vaccines\u2019 efficacy began failing badly in recent months. Oregon officially classifies roughly a quarter of its COVID fatalities since August as \u201cvaccine breakthrough deaths.\u201d In Illinois, roughly 30 percent of<br \/>\nCOVID fatalities have occurred among fully vaccinated individuals. According to the Vermont Department of Health, \u201cHalf of the [COVID] deaths in August were breakthrough cases. Almost three-quarters of them in September were,\u201d as Burlington, Vermont, TV station WCAX summarized.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"content-tweet-block noprint\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Federal%20agencies%20don%E2%80%99t%20count%20what%20politicians%20don%E2%80%99t%20want%20to%20know.&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fff.org%2Fexplore-freedom%2Farticle%2Fcorrupt-federal-statistics-cover-endless-cons%2F&amp;via=FutureofFreedom\"><span class=\"tweet-box-text\">Federal agencies don\u2019t count what politicians don\u2019t want to know.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tweet-box-link\">[Click to Tweet]<\/span><\/a>The Biden administration guaranteed that the vast majority of \u201cbreakthrough\u201d infections would not be counted when the Centers for Disease Control in May ceased keeping track of \u201cbreakthrough\u201d infections unless they resulted in hospitalization or death. Ignoring that data permitted Biden to go on CNN in July and make the ludicrously false assertion: \u201cYou\u2019re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.\u201d But federal data on fully vaxxed COVID fatalities is far flimsier and less reliable than the numbers compiled by some states. Biden\u2019s attempt to define vaccine failure out of existence collapsed spectacularly with the arrival of the omicron variant in December, producing record numbers of COVID cases.<\/p>\n<p>The same policymakers who claim to be guided by data have little or no idea how many Americans have been hit by COVID. According to CDC, there had been 51,115,304 COVID cases in America through mid-December. But a different CDC web page estimates that there had been 146.6 million COVID infections in the United States as of October 2, 2021. That CDC analysis estimated that only one in four COVID infections have been reported, which would mean that, based on the latest official case numbers, more than 200 million Americans have contracted COVID. For Biden policymakers, a potential error of 150 million COVID infections is \u201cclose enough for government work.\u201d Relying on the lower number is convenient for policymakers who want to continue ignoring the natural immunity acquired by 199 million Americans who survived COVID infections.<\/p>\n<p>Deceptive federal COVID data is not an anomaly. The same charades permeate the official data guiding both domestic and foreign policies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The dumbing down of education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Federal education policy has perennially been exempt from the fraud penalties that the Federal Trade Commission inflicts on private corporations. The No Child Left Behind Act, passed in 2002, promised that federal mandates would make all students proficient in reading and math by the year 2014. NCLB was spurred in part by Washington\u2019s exasperation with decades of coverups of local and state school failures. School test data had been manipulated to allow \u201call 50 state education agencies to report above-average scores for their elementary schools, with most claiming such scores in every subject area and every grade level,\u201d as former Education Department official Larry Uzzell explained. NCLB promised to prevent state and local politicians and bureaucrats from lying to coverup kids\u2019 educational shortfalls.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from mandating universal proficiency by 2014, NCLB also required schools to show \u201cadequate yearly progress\u201d for all groups of students. But states were allowed to define \u201cproficient\u201d and set the starting line for measuring progress wherever they pleased. Almost half the states responded to the law\u2019s perverse incentives by \u201cdumbing down\u201d academic standards, lowering passing scores on tests to avoid harsh federal sanctions. A 2006 report by Education Sector, a nonprofit organization, derided NCLB for creating \u201ca system of perverse incentives that rewards state education officials who misrepresent reality.\u201d It was obvious within the first year that the law was backfiring, but the feds covered up the catastrophe to permit President George W. Bush and other politicians to continue lying about saving America\u2019s children. In 2009, Obama\u2019s Education Secretary Arne Duncan denounced the pervasive manipulations spawned by NCLB: \u201cFar too many states dummied down standards. They reduced their standards, and we\u2019re actually lying to children and families and saying they are prepared to be successful, when frankly they weren\u2019t even close. It\u2019s one of the most insidious things that happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Food stamp fraud<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Food stamps have been one of the most popular ways for politicians to prove their love of downtrodden Americans. Liberals perennially claim that the food-stamp program has a fraud rate of only 1 percent. But that is based solely on the number of violators who get caught, and federal rules discourage states (which administer the program) from vigorously pursuing violators. New Mexico Human Services Secretary Sidonie Squier complained in 2013 that the biggest fraud issue in her state was recipients\u2019 selling their food-stamp Electronic Benefit (EBT) Card and claiming that it was lost or stolen. Roughly 70 percent of all the EBT cards issued in New Mexico in 2012 were replacement cards. Squier told Albuquerque\u2019s KOB-TV, \u201cWe know that there are some people who lose them four, six, or eight times, and it\u2019s pretty suspicious, but you can\u2019t do anything about it based on the federal rules. They want people to have the cards \u2014 they want the card replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em> revealed that Wisconsin food-stamp recipients routinely sell their benefit cards on Facebook. The investigation found that \u201cnearly 2,000 recipients claimed they lost their card six or more times in 2010 and requested replacements.\u201d USDA rules require that lost cards be speedily replaced. The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute concluded: \u201cProsecutors have simply stopped prosecuting the vast majority of [food-stamp] fraud cases in virtually all counties, including the one with the most recipients, Milwaukee.\u201d The Obama administration responded by cracking down on state governments\u2019 antifraud measures. Refusing to detect fraud permits politicians to claim there is no fraud \u2014 the ultimate scam on taxpayers forced to pay for the shenanigans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The fraud of job training<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the 1960s, politicians have promised that government training programs would provide people with valuable skills. Instead, the programs have generated endless statistical scams. One of the first federal training programs claimed that any trainee who held a job for a single day was \u201cpermanently employed.\u201d The Job Corps went one step further, counting as a job placement any recruit who had a job interview scheduled. In the 1980s, some federal job training programs had a 100 percent success rate because they pretended that anyone who was not hired post-training never existed. A federal audit revealed in 2014 that the U.S. Labor Department did not even bother tracking whether trainees completed training \u2014 much less whether they actually became employed in the field for which they were trained. The Government Accountability Office \u201cfound training-related employment data unreliable primarily because a significant portion of the data was missing.\u201d Program managers excused themselves by stating that tracking the outcome of training was \u201cresource-intensive.\u201d President Obama admitted in 2014 that federal job training programs rely on a \u201c\u2018train and pray\u2019 approach. We train them, and we pray that they can get a job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Peace Corps, one of the most sainted federal agencies, is also guilty of perennially covering up deadly risks to its recruits. The Peace Corps has long acted as if its volunteers\u2019 good intentions are body armor that shield them against all perils. But its basic model \u2014 sending inexperienced young college graduates to live and work alone in many of the world\u2019s most dangerous nations \u2014 is failing mightily. The Peace Corps routinely buries evidence of rapes suffered by its volunteers. Michael O\u2019Neill, the Peace Corps\u2019 security director from 1995 to 2002, commented, \u201cNobody wanted to talk about security [for volunteers]. It suppresses the recruitment numbers.\u201d After a 29-year-old volunteer was gang-raped in Bangladesh, Rep. Ted Poe (R-Tex.) condemned the agency\u2019s reaction: \u201cFor political reasons, the Peace Corps did everything it could to ignore and cover up the dastardly deed, blaming the crime on the victim.\u201d A 2021 <em>USA Today<\/em> investigation found that the agency continues suppressing evidence even though almost half of the female Peace Corps recruits \u201cwho finished service in 2019 were sexually assaulted in some way.\u201d But this horrendous failure rarely shows up in the agency\u2019s endless press release victory proclamations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The first casualty of war is truth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Federal statistics cannot raise the dead, but they can make troublesome corpses vanish. The Obama administration vastly increased drone killings of terrorist suspects in many nations and claimed that almost all the victims were bad guys. A <em>Salon<\/em> analysis, summarizing an NBC News report, noted, \u201cEven while admitting that the identities of many killed by drones were not known, the CIA documents asserted that all those dead were enemy combatants. The logic is twisted: If we kill you, then you were an enemy combatant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> revealed that U.S. \u201ccounterterrorism officials insist \u2026 people in an area of known terrorist activity \u2026 are probably up to no good.\u201d The \u201cprobably up to no good\u201d standard absolved almost any drone killing within thousands of square miles in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Daniel Hale, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, leaked information revealing that nearly 90 percent of people who were killed in drone strikes were not the intended targets. Biden\u2019s Justice Department responded by coercing Hale into pleading guilty to \u201cretention and transmission of national security information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who is shocked at the chicanery of official statistics on drone killings should take a look at the Vietnam War, during which the U.S. military created incentives that guaranteed the killing of vast numbers of innocent people. In 1974, the Army published a monograph entitled \u201cSharpening the Combat Edge: The Use of Analysis to Reinforce Military Judgment.\u201d Deborah Nelson, the author of <em>The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth About U.S. War Crimes,<\/em> summarized the study: \u201cThey measured success through an elaborate analysis based largely on enemy body count. Statistics on kills per month, kills per unit, kills per engagement, even rounds expended per kill were collected at the division headquarters to determine what strategies were working and which units were lagging and in need of a \u2018visit.\u2019\u201d Ret. Lt. Gen. Orwin Talbott observed, \u201cThe 9th division insisted on a body count. They didn\u2019t care what body.\u201d There was far more enthusiasm for wracking up body counts than for assuring that the targets were actually enemies. The more that kill ratios determined officers\u2019 promotions, the easier it was to justify treating almost all Vietnamese as enemies. Decades later, Vietnam vet Jerry Mooradian lamented: \u201cThe soldier on the ground had to come up with a body count to get to people in Washington so they could justify being there.\u201d Those bogus \u201cbody counts\u201d permitted Defense Secretary William McNamara and other honchos to claim that the United States was winning the war.<\/p>\n<p>Political appointees at federal agencies recognize that the best way to protect their bosses\u2019 reputations is to avoid gathering the data that would expose their skullduggery. The refusal to track program failures is buttressed by pervasive secrecy. Federal agencies classify as secret trillions of pages of documents a year \u2014 a magic wand that vanishes far more scandals than are ever exposed.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the media has portrayed federal officials like Tony Fauci as America\u2019s \u201cbest and brightest.\u201d But<strong> Washington, D.C., is full of Towers of Paternalist Babel built on statistical quicksand. Bureaucracies conspire against admitting their failures, and politicians often rig reporting requirements to hide the damage their laws inflict. Anyone who has blind faith in federal data is unfit to judge public policy in the real world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally published in the March 2022 edition of<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fff.org\/explore-freedom\/journal\/\">Future of Freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"efcategory\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corrupt Federal Statistics Cover Endless Cons by James Bovard Federal agencies don\u2019t count what politicians don\u2019t want to know. President Joe Biden and other Democrats perennially invoke \u201cscience and data\u201d to sanctify all their COVID-19 mandates and policies. 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