The basic flaw in your argument is...
...that you're expecting this "government" to make sense when it makes pronouncements designed to assail the US middle class. Haven't you been paying attention enough to realize that such anachronisms as logic, consistency in positions and a sense of fair play has long since been abandoned. Brush up on your doublespeak, Drook...its the wave of the future!
jb4
"So don't pay attention to the approval ratings that say 68% of Americans disapprove of the job this man is doing. I ask you this, does that not also logically mean that 68% approve of the job he's not doing? Think about it. I haven't."
— Stephen Colbert, at the White House Correspondent's Dinner 29Apr06