[Grunthor]

“Indeed, under the Census definition, a family in New York City is “near poor” if it has full medical insurance and an annual income below $77,000.”

I have friends in NYC. The above statement is not untrue.

[EagleUSA]

This is why many did not participate in the census. They knew it was a fraud and sham which was designed to provide information for TAXTION, VOTER DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES, AND INCOME INFORMATION — all fed back to Obama and his mob strictly to provide for more empowerment and destruction of individual wealth along with its redistribution.

But you knew that already, right?

[EagleUSA]

This is why many did not participate in the census. They knew it was a fraud and sham which was designed to provide information for TAXTION, VOTER DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES, AND INCOME INFORMATION — all fed back to Obama and his mob strictly to provide for more empowerment and destruction of individual wealth along with its redistribution.

But you knew that already, right?

[Grunthor]

$77,000 for a family in NYC IS poor.

$77,000 for a family in Grays Harbor County, Wa. is doing pretty darned good.

It’s all in the geography.

[SkyDancer]

Above? Not below??

[Thommas]

..and the independent, “moderate” voter thinks this is reasonable; that is, the Democratic Progressive paradigm is no different than that of a Republican Conservative. Yea Gods, we a so doomed.

[jakota]

A lie is a lie is a lie and 0bama and his administration have perfected the lie. It has reached the point where I don’t believe ANYTHING this president says, ever. It’s easier to simply assume that he’s lying, because he always is.

[Ernie Kaputnik]

I'd like to know what Barry's thresholds are for “rich” and “poor”.

We pay that asshat how much in salary, benefits, retirement and “free” vacations? Hell, Chewie and the kids just flew to Hawaii to the tune of $4 MILLION, and prior to that went to Spain for a week of shopping and sightseeing on our dime.

That jackass and his grifting family have been raping us for millions every month, and then he has the balls to tell us that people like me are rich and not paying our fair share.

Frack him, his family, his administration, Eric Holder, the DOJ, the DNC, the ACLU, La RAZA, unions and every other fugging leach sucking my life's blood to finance their fairytale existence.

Their next vacation should be an all-expense paid, family stay in one of our outstanding federal penal institutions.

He is the epitome of a lying, conniving, cheating, stealing, grifting, soulless, immoral, bastardized POS.

Ernie

[Drew68]

In fact, nearly all poor Americans live in houses or apartments that are in good condition and not over-crowded... ...more than 80 percent of poor Americans had air conditioning, nearly two-thirds had cable TV and half had a computer. Most of the poor were able to obtain medical care whenever needed... ...some 96 percent of poor parents stated their children were not hungry for even a single day during the last year.

This describes me and my family. You see, according to the Obama Administration, we are poor. Allow me to briefly describe what it is like to be "poor" according to our President.

I'm an E6 in the Navy with more than 8 years of service. My wife is a stay at home mother to our two young sons. We live in a decent 3 br. / 2 ba. single family home with a two-car garage and a large yard. In the summer I run the air conditioning. Next spring we will be moving to a 4 br. home. I crunched the numbers and we can easily afford it. I can afford payments on a 2009 Toyota minivan. We have a couple of nice HDTVs, PS3s, computers, cell phones, cable, Netflix, internet and on and on. I have an electric guitar collection worth thousands of dollars as is my wife's jewelry collection. My wife and sons never go without. There's plenty of food in the fridge, clothes in the closet and toys in the bedrooms. Our credit card debt is minimal and I have no problem making the monthly payments. We have thousands in our savings account. There are presents under the Christmas tree. Nice ones!

Yet, my family qualifies for WIC as well as subsidized utility bills. I'm sure there's other "freebies" we'd qualify for if I looked into it. We choose not to receive WIC and I pay my electric bill in full but we qualify nonetheless. In the eyes of the government, this places my family (and many others just like ours) in the demographic of one out of two Americans who are poor or "low income".

I certainly don't feel poor but apparently we are. And to think, all this time I've considered myself fortunate. Guess I was wrong. Go figure...

Maybe I need to get my butt to one of those "Occupy" demonstrations to draw attention to the miserable poverty that I live in.

[Publius6961]

Team O’s ‘poor’ trick (Obama now considers those making above $75,000 'poor')

I can see where this is going...
People who actually contributed tens of thousands to Social Security over decades of their working lives can suck it up with cuts, increased Medicare costs and inflation which deceptively excludes some basic necessities.

Meanwhile the professional welfare leeches will have their "benefits" increased, "free" Medicaid indexed, and the threshold for being poor increased to more than the average worker makes.

Wonderful.

I just hope that when adults are voted back in all of these outrageous increases of free money can be reversed.

[GreyFriar]

We are the poor!!! But rich in spirit and our belief in God — not that he is trying to take that away too.

[RavenATB]

The while country is impoverished, regardless how much money we have, when we have a lying Marxist like Obama in the White House.

[A_perfect_lady]

Now we know why the middle class is shrinking. If you earn above $200,000, you’re the Evil Rich. If you earn below $80,000, you’re the downtrodden poor. The middle class is being defined out of existence.

[bgill]

By that we’re below dirt poor. We’re at dirt on fleas poor.