And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics." - attributed to Disraeli, Twain, and others. Sorry, government LIES to make its own job performance seem better.
The U.S. Census Bureau determines poverty status by using a formula originally developed by Mollie Orshansky in 1963–1964:
Official Poverty Level = 3 * cost of 1963 economy food plan * CPI-U
If a family's Pre-Tax Cash Income falls below this threshold, every member of that family is officially considered in poverty.
The formula assumes the other 2/3rds of a person's income is enough to comfortably cover all other expenses. A lot of these people are still structurally poor, they have zero discretionary income because it was swallowed up by housing costs.
Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), which actually does look at housing costs and taxes, is significantly higher at 13.1%. The highest in recent years and about to get a lot worse because of fuel costs. Old people will probably die this winter from lack of heat because of Donald's war. In the "greatest country on earth."
Awww honey.... You still believe government statistics? Bless your heart
Later today I will go to the supermarket an let the nice lady working the checkout line that her machine must be wrong. The government says that we are no longer poor.
Take all the professional department heads - people with decades of experience and expertise - fire them for reporting numbers that you don't like, replace them with TV celebrities and other unqualified candidates who parrot nonsense for the right price, and then use their new doctored-up numbers as proof of how wonderful things are. Sure, believable.
Because the death rate is up!
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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics." - attributed to Disraeli, Twain, and others. Sorry, government LIES to make its own job performance seem better.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't forget the liberal media lying all day, every day, feeding TDS to the max.
DeleteThe U.S. Census Bureau determines poverty status by using a formula originally developed by Mollie Orshansky in 1963–1964:
ReplyDeleteOfficial Poverty Level = 3 * cost of 1963 economy food plan * CPI-U
If a family's Pre-Tax Cash Income falls below this threshold, every member of that family is officially considered in poverty.
The formula assumes the other 2/3rds of a person's income is enough to comfortably cover all other expenses. A lot of these people are still structurally poor, they have zero discretionary income because it was swallowed up by housing costs.
Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), which actually does look at housing costs and taxes, is significantly higher at 13.1%. The highest in recent years and about to get a lot worse because of fuel costs. Old people will probably die this winter from lack of heat because of Donald's war. In the "greatest country on earth."
Awww honey.... You still believe government statistics?
ReplyDeleteBless your heart
Later today I will go to the supermarket an let the nice lady working the checkout line that her machine must be wrong. The government says that we are no longer poor.
Take all the professional department heads - people with decades of experience and expertise - fire them for reporting numbers that you don't like, replace them with TV celebrities and other unqualified candidates who parrot nonsense for the right price, and then use their new doctored-up numbers as proof of how wonderful things are. Sure, believable.
ReplyDeleteGo through life with healthy skepticism. But don’t keep your heads so far up your backside that you don’t believe anything.
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