Redefining the middle class: In a word, how Obama will turn U.S. into a socialist paradise

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Jesus Christ - or a trick of light - photographed over Obama inauguration?

President Barack Obama has asked a powerful new linguistic task force to find ways to expand the definition of “middle class” to include “lower class” and “upper class” while keeping “the super rich” in a category of their own.

President Barack Obama.

In that way, the president confided to senior administration officials, the true and traditional middle class will feel as if they are the focus of economic initiatives while the lower class will understand that they, as part of the middle class, also are being helped.

Under this semantical scheme, the upper class will see themselves as beneficiaries as well, because, as actual members of the middle class per the linquistic team’s forthcoming redefinitions, they will be on the “handout radar”, too.

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As the so-called fairness state unfolds, the super rich will be reminded that they are comfortably distanced and well isolated from the underclasses, including former upper-class folks who, even though they had been fairly well off, weren’t in a position to pay high-priced accountants to prevent the redistribution of their wealth in the form of tax cuts to people who don’t pay taxes.

For the record, the super rich likely will include all serious politicians, some celebrities and most corporate CEOs.

“The strength of our economy can be measured by the strength of our middle class,” Obama said.

“This is a difficult moment. But I believe, if we act boldly and swiftly, it can be an American moment — when we work through our differences and overcome our divisions to become, truly, a nation of two peoples, the middle classes and the monied classes, working together, as one.”

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Casey Anthony: “I don’t care if I’m convicted or not – I like jail”

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Christian artist Dick Kulpa's rendering of angelic Caylee Anthony.

Just minutes before a hearing to determine when she will stand trial for the murder of Caylee Anthony, her 2-year-old daughter,  tot mom Casey Anthony reportedly told a member of her legal team that she’s “starting to like jail … and … don’t care if I’m convicted or not.”

Casey Anthony.

She went on to say she’s “not guilty of a damn thing  …  life in prison will have to be better than life (as a free person on the outside) … everybody hates me … even my (friends) …” 

The statements mark a sharp departure from Anthony’s earlier insistence that jail was the pits and she wanted out in the worst way.

The source who overheard the statements, an insider close to the case, said there was “something different in her voice that I haven’t heard before. I think it was fear.

“It’s like the reality of her trial and the strength of the case against her is beginning to sink in. What Iheard today sounded like someone preparing herself for the worst. 

“It was as if she were telling herself, ‘I’m not going to be able to lie myself out of this. I might as well prepare myself for it.”

Anthony was escorted into a courtroom in Orange County, Florida, at 8:15 a.m. Friday morning with what one observed described as “a Cheshire cat grin on her face.”

It was reported that she took notes with a pencil throughout the proceeding, although one person who claims to have seen the notepad she was working on said there “wasn’t a word on it, just doodling.”

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As she scribbled away, Circuit Judge Stan Strickland granted defense attorney Jose Baez’s motion and request to visit the crime scene where Caylee’s skeletal remains were found, the mouth of the skull wrapped with duct tape.

Strickland said he will rule on Baez’s request to obtain the records of volunteers who helped in the search for baby Caylee at a later date. Getting that information could help the defense make the case that the tot’s body was dumped long after Casey Anthony had been jailed, legal experts say.

That, in turn, might help the defense prove that she didn’t kill the baby, they explain.

On the issue of a change-of -venue motion, Strickland said he will set a hearing date when the appropriate paperwork is filed.

It was also determined that if the trial is not set for the end of the year, a change of venue motion may not be necessary – and the trial could be held in Florida.