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Offline jinxmchue

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Obama's Middle-Class Task Force Has No Middle Class
« on: March 05, 2009, 08:18:50 AM »
The rich left-wing elitists strike again:

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

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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. 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 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.

No surprises there.

Then there's this hilariously ironic parenthetical sentence tacked on the end of that paragraph:

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(See pictures of crime in Middle America.)

I laughed.   :-)