This is really insidious - a means to an end that will impoverish the lower middle class who will fall that much easier into poverty.Obama plans to change the definition of "poverty" says NRO's Robert Rector: This week, the Obama administration announced it will create a new poverty-measurement system that will eventually displace the current poverty measure. This new measure, which has little or nothing to do with actual poverty, will serve as the propaganda tool in Obama's endless quest to "spread the wealth."Under the new measure, a family will be judged "poor" if its income falls below a certain specified income threshold. Nothing new there, but, unlike the current poverty standards, the new income thresholds will have a built-in escalator clause: They will rise automatically in direct proportion to any rise in the living standards of the average American.The current poverty measure counts absolute purchasing power - how much steak and potatoes you...(Read Full Post)