According to this, Obama announced this week that there’s going to be a new poverty measurement system to replace the current measure. His new system ties in nicely with his ultimate goal of taking people’s money and redistributing it to other people. You know – spreading the wealth around.
Here’s how it’s going to work. First, if a family’s income falls below a certain income threshold, they’ll be considered poor. Second, those thresholds are going to “rise automatically in direct proportion to any rise in the living standards of the average American.”
That’s kind of a big deal. Instead of gauging how much a family can Actually Buy, the new measure will gauge how much they can buy COMPARED TO OTHERS.
Liberals love this idea, but even President Lyndon Johnson nixed it. And with good reason. If the country prospers, the definition of “poor” keeps prospering right along with it. So people who receive benefits meant for “the poor” could actually be quite comfortable. That’s handy for people like Obama and other Democrats who count on people counting on them. Under Obama’s new measurement system, the definition of “poor” can only be reduced if the incomes of the poor rise faster than everyone else’s.
As the author of the article points out, poverty rates in countries like Bangladesh and Albania will have lower poverty rates than we do. Never mind that if you’re poor in Albania, you’re probably living outside in a box, whereas in the US, you’re inside with A/C.
Actually, let’s take a look at what poverty really means in the US. According to the article, most Americans who are officially classified as “poor” live pretty well, actually. The government’s data shows that the average “poor” person, according to the old measurement, “has two color televisions, cable or satellite service, a VCR or DVD player, and a stereo. He also has a car, air conditioning, a refrigerator, a stove, a clothes washer and dryer, and a microwave. He is able to obtain medical care. His home is in good repair and is not overcrowded. By his own report, his family is not hungry, and he had sufficient funds in the past year to meet his family’s essential needs.” Doesn’t your heart just BLEED?
So now, Obama’s new measuring scale is going to INCREASE, artificially, the number of Americans classified as poor. And so all of those poor, wretched people with their two tv’s and their air conditioning could potentially qualify for MORE of everyone else’s money to supplement their HORRIBLE LIVING CONDITIONS.
It’s the Harrison Bergeronification of America, you guys. It’s all about making everyone equal. Obama and other liberals will take money out of your check in the name of helping those less fortunate, when really, those less fortunate are actually pretty damn fortunate. But this is the Democratic agenda – keep people dependent on government and dis-incentivized to take care of themselves, and BLAMMO – you’ve got yourself a whole bunch of people who will keep voting Democrat so that the freebies don’t stop.
HATE.
