Moar Doin It Rong...

Obama's Middle Class Task Force Has No Middle Class

While defining America's most beloved demographic group has never been an exact science, most academics agree that the term refers to anyone earning between $30,000 and $100,000 a year. (Median household income in the U.S. hovers around $50,000.) Every member of the President's task force — from Biden ($227,000) to Council of Economic Advisors Chairwoman 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.

No Joe the Plumber, eh? Color me shocked.

What makes it even more deliciously ironic is this little tidbit:

Middle-class Americans are invited to submit questions and ideas through the task force's website, but while tickets for the Philadelphia meeting were distributed to labor and environmental groups, the task force did not accept questions from the audience.

So, basically, the "middle class task force" doesn't have any middle class members or give a flying rat's ass what the middle class has to say. The only groups welcome are the greenies and the goonions, heavy demo-supporters. Sure am glad that we're no longer seeing "business as usual"...

Oh yeah, that's change I can believe in.

One last parting kick in the 'nads:

The task force didn't specify the number of jobs it hoped to create in the green sector or how much of an impact the programs are expected to have on the middle class as a whole. Annie Tomasini, Biden's deputy press secretary, says the Philadelphia meeting was just a "listening session" and that the task force will not actually make any decisions regarding green job creation. They'll have to go back to Washington to do that.

IOW, they harbor no illusions about this "task force" actually, you know, doing a fucking thing...
Sure am glad I'm going to the range tomorrow. Just for the enviro-weenies, I'm going to shoot nothing but lead ammo...

That is all.