[lbo-talk] Re: What is poor

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Joanna:
> "The Census Bureau itself acknowledges serious limitations to its
> calculations. One problem is that it is required by law to use a
measure of
> inflation that is known to overstate price increases. Using a
corrected
> inflation measure would have lowered the poverty rate from 12.1
percent to
> 10.8 percent last year. The inclusion of income that is not now
counted,
> such as noncash income transfers like food stamps, would lower the
rate to
> just 7.5 percent."
> 
> How do people like these wake up? Hot poker up the ass perhaps?
> 

I think they are fully awake and diligently doing their job: providing
the needed conclusions to those in the position to pay for them.  

Wojtek