Obama forms task force on working families

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Source: MarketWatch

President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday that he will form a "White House Task Force on Working Families," to be chaired by Vice President-elect Joe Biden, when he takes office Jan. 20.

The Obama transition team said the task force will be a "major initiative targeted at raising the living standards of middle-class, working families in America." The task force will be comprised of top-level administration policy makers. In addition to regular meetings, it will conduct outreach sessions with representatives of labor, business and the advocacy communities.

"My administration will be absolutely committed to the future of America's middle-class and working families. They will be front and center every day in our work in the White House. And this Task Force will be one vehicle we will use to ensure that we never forget that commitment. I think it can make a great contribution to our work, and I'm grateful that the Vice President-elect has agreed to chair it," Obama said in a release announcing the idea.

Biden said the task force will "look at existing and future policies across the board and use a yard stick to measure how they are impacting the working and middle-class families: Is the number of these families growing? Are they prospering? President-elect Obama and I know the economic health of working families has eroded, and we intend to turn that around."

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1. Pretty pathetic, having to have a "task force on working families"

I mean, what else is the government supposed to be about? "Working families" (which I take to really mean "working people") describes practically the entire population of the country, save the 1% "haves and have mores" that have been running roughshod over the other 99% "working people" for the last thirty years.

I guess saint ronnie started this when he kept referring to issues important to the middle class as just another "special interest" to be loathed. This has been boilerplate jargon for the GOP ever since and, oddly, embraced by GOP sycophants in the working class! As they say, it's like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.

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2. Oh great. Just another investigation to tell them what everyone already knows

Task force is set up to find out if workers are having problems.

And then the pretty words "we intend to turn that around". Yeah right. See, they already know workers are having problems.

So sometime in the far off future when this task force has run out of worker problems to investigate, we will get some more pretty words about intentions.

Chamber of Commerce types get immediate action and funds. Workers get task force investigation and pretty words.