The CBO Report: Six Things You Can’t Talk About in Washington, DC

[Demo_Chris]

1. Exceptionally well written article! I would add one thing more:

7. Don't talk about poverty. Don't even use the word "poor." The people at the bottom, the folks working for our largest employers and earning as close to minimum age with no benefits as those companies can get away with, are no longer poor. In President Obama's new language, they aren't poor, they are: "Struggling to reach middle class."

Middle Class, in Washington's world view, is apparently those who earn less than $399,000 a year. These are the people desperately in need of government assistance in the form of permanent tax cuts. The good people working at Walmart earning $17,000 a year are just out of luck. In the minds of the people in Washington they are ALMOST exactly the same, one is middle class and the other is almost there. Just a little more bootstrapping and they'll be set.