"Amazing claims since the semi-official poverty line is $12,000 a year for a single self-supporter and $22,000 for a family of four, husband a wife and two children."

"Semi-official?", is that like nearly pregnant?

"assumed to be"   So three kids and a mom aren't a family? Andy, Opie and Aunt Bee weren't a family????? Say it ain't so say it ain't so!!

"a world where $1.25 a day is the current poverty line." That is Mitt Romney World.

"Why yes Anne, we'll give the poor in this country the chance to earn $2.50 per day in sweatshops and at twice the world poverty threshold. They should be able to live comfortably on that!"
five minutes later...

"500 dollars a day for board and grooming? Our precious dancing horse is worth every penny."