[lelio]

You decide to take a year off and travel the country in your $800,000 Blue Bird Wanderlodge motor home. Guess what? For that year, our government says you're "living in poverty."

Yeah, there are MILLIONS of people in the US that this applies to. Neal, if you're going to try and make an analogy at least try and make one that's not laughable. To say that the country club Republicans that don't have any "income" are representive of the "poor" is rather amusing.

[ctdonath2]

To say that the country club Republicans that don't have any "income" are representive of the "poor" is rather amusing.

It's not that they're "representative", it's that they're blindly included in the numbers. The term "poor" evokes an image which many officially "poor" people are far from fitting.

[mcg1969]

Agreed. No intelligent rich person lives off captial, they live off interest, dividends, and capital gains---i.e., income.