Obama's Middle-Class Task Force Has No Middle Class

Yahoo ^ | 3/4/09 | CLAIRE SUDDATH

[Nachum]

Last Friday, Vice President Joe Biden and seven White House cabinet members traveled to Philadelphia to kick off the inaugural gathering of President Obama's Middle Class Task Force. The task force will convene monthly in cities across the country to confront the problems faced by average Americans. It's an admirable goal; with rising costs, stagnant wages and job cuts, a Pew Research study found that 78% of self-described middle class Americans have trouble maintaining their current standard of living.

Still, the middle class may have a better shot at making ends meet than at influencing the Middle Class Task Force. That's because no member of the Middle Class Task Force is actually middle class

[Nachum]

Added to the list, ping

Obama's 6th week in office

Obama's Middle-Class Task Force Has No Middle Class. Every member of the President's task force - from Biden ($227,000) to Council of Economic Advisors chair Christina Romer ($172,000) to energy secretary Steven Chu ($191,000) - makes well over $150,000, putting them in the top 5% of wage earners. (See pictures of crime in Middle America.)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090304/us_time/08599188291300

full list at www.nachumlist.com

[Freedom2specul8]

Figures....
Animal Farm INC. is in control
Some are better than others.
Taxation without representation.

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President Obama's Middle Class Task Force

It must be an exciting time to be a historian. It's not everyday you see the birth of fascism up close and personal.

[NorCoGOP]

Obama's Middle-Class Task Force Has No Middle Class

Corrected.

Obama's Middle-Class Task Force Has No Middle Class

Corrected further.

[pankot]

Destroying the Middle-Class is the first step to an Oligarchy. That’s what they want,just like North Korea.

[genghis]

more wisdom in this single thread than anything obama has said.

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[Shery]

Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs, huh? Too good to pass up!

[KeyLargo]

I thought that this article was about Joe Biden at first.

grandpa duct-taped, bound to recliner

(http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1461782,030509basile.article)

March 5, 2009

By KIM JANSSEN, Staff Writer

Except for the barking dog, nobody was home at Joseph Basile’s dirty-white, single-story home in the 3500 block of John Street in Steger on Wednesday afternoon.

Basile was dead, and his dog’s leash was in police custody, at the center of a nightmarish homicide probe.

Steger police say members of 90-year-old Basile’s family bound him in duct tape, then lashed him to a recliner with the leash.

[andy58-in-nh]

The purpose of the "Middle Class Tax Force" is not to actually help the middle class ("green" jobs? - yeah, get back to us on that sometime). The purpose is to make as much of the middle class as possible permanently dependent on government.