Here’s a link to the article about the Middle Class Task Force which sounds to me like Obama is saying he’s going to ask his economic team to focus on the needs of the middle class and those who aspire to be in the middle class when crafting economic policy. Essentially he’s giving job direction to people who are already being paid, so cost – $0.00. However, in focusing on the needs of the middle class and poor instead of the needs of businesses, they will make decisions differently than they’ve been made in the last 28 years. Ultimately, what will the impact of that be on revenues and expenditures and overall economic prosperity for the citizens of the US is probably the more important question, and these things are so complex that people will still be arguing over them long after each of us has drawn his last breath.
My belief is that the middle class is where the people are, if you make them prosper, the whole nation prospers, so I think the benefits will far outstrip the costs, but if you believe that the way to prosperity is through the failed trickle down economic policies that have brought us to where we are now, or through the every man for himself wet dream economic policies ofthe no taxes branch of the right wing, then it’s not for you.