From Obama's constant shifting of the goal posts as to where his planned tax hike would begin (at any income level between $150,000 and $250,000), we know that Obama regards the middle class cynically, not as a group of hurting people but a rhetorical device to convince you he cares.
We're told that Obama will form this task force to focus on improving education and training for Americans and protecting incomes and retirement security of the middle class. How about education for the poor or for minorities trapped in inner-city schools because of Democrats' demagogic opposition to school vouchers?
Biden assures us this task force will measure the success of Obama's economic policy by whether the middle class is growing and prospering.
These class-warfare agents might as well be saying, "Our administration will be devoted to convincing you around the clock that we care about people who constitute the largest voting bloc of Americans and, of course, the unions, who will help us in our re-election efforts."
I just hope we're still at least slightly sympathetic to the notion that the American ideal is blind as to economic classes and grounded in equal opportunity for all. Obama's endless appeals to the middle class contradict his promises not to be divisive and to restore unity to America.
If this task force comes to fruition, watch for it to be a primary propaganda vehicle of the new administration that is both wrongheaded in its approach and potentially quite dangerous in its application.
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