On Sunday mornings Squealer, holding down a long strip
of paper with his trotter, would read out to them lists of
figures proving that the production of every class of
foodstuff had increased by two hundred percent, three
hundred percent, or five hundred percent, as the case
might be. The animals saw no reason to disbelieve him,
especially as they could no longer remember very clearly
what conditions had been like before the Rebellion. All
the same, there were days when they felt that they would
sooner have had less figures and more food.
-Animal Farm,
George Orwell