Uh, Who's Paying for this Obesity Task Force, Honey?

Consider this a federal mandate and you're picking up the tab. Just so Michelle Obama has a purpose in life, or something like that.

n the Oval Office this morning, President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum in conjunction with his wife’s launch of a nationwide campaign to tackle childhood obesity, what he called the “most urgent” health issue facing the country.

Most urgent health issue? Wasn't that swine flu a few months ago when Obama declared a national emergency?

The memorandum creates a 90-day plan creating a task-force to provide “optimal coordination” between private sector companies, not-for-profits, agencies within the government and other organizations to address the problem of childhood obesity.

Creates a 90-day plan creating a task-force. So today they created a plan to create a task-force? That's government inaction for you.

The first lady at a noontime event today will formally roll out her “Let’s Move” campaign in the State Dining Room at the White House. As the president signed the memorandum at his desk, Mr. Obama said to his wife, “It’s done, honey.” She responded, “Now we work.”

Aww, how special.

So I ask, just what does this entail? Well, pretty much every aspect of your kid's life from here to eternity, that's what.

First Lady Michelle Obama today announced an ambitious national goal of solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation so that children born today will reach adulthood at a healthy weight and unveiled a nationwide campaign - Let's Move - to help achieve it.

The Let's Move campaign will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources. Let's Move will engage every sector impacting the health of children to achieve the national goal, and will provide schools, families and communities simple tools to help kids be more active, eat better, and get healthy.

Simple tools, like being indoctrinated with Obamaganda everywhere the little urchins turn.

The First Lady launched the Let's Move campaign at the White House where she was joined by members of the President's cabinet, including Agriculture Secretary Vilsack, HHS Secretary Sebelius, Education Secretary Duncan, HUD Secretary Donovan, Labor Secretary Solis, and Interior Secretary Salazar, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, Members of Congress, mayors from across the nation and leaders from the media, medical, sports, entertainment, and business communities who impact the health of children and want to be part of the solution. Program participants included: Tiki Barber, NBC correspondent and former NFL football player; Dr. Judith Palfrey, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics; Will Allen, Founder and CEO of Growing Power; Mayor Curtatone of Somerville, Massachusetts; Mayor Chip Johnson of Hernando, Mississippi; and local students, including a student from DC's Bancroft elementary school, and members of the 2009 National Championship Pee-Wee football team, the Watkins Hornets.

Let's Move is comprehensive, collaborative, and community-oriented and will include strategies to address the various factors that lead to childhood obesity. It will foster collaboration among the leaders in government, medicine and science, business, education, athletics, community organizations and more. And it will take into account how life is really lived in communities across the country - encouraging, supporting and pursuing solutions that are tailored to children and families facing a wide range of challenges and life circumstances.

President Barack Obama kicked off the launch by signing a Presidential Memorandum creating the first ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity which will include the DPC, Office of the First Lady, Interior, USDA, HHS, Education, NEC and other agencies. Within 90 days, the Task Force will conduct a review of every single program and policy relating to child nutrition and physical activity and develop a national action plan that maximizes federal resources and sets concrete benchmarks toward the First Lady's national goal.

It's unprecedented!

Of course Obama's preferred television entities are more than happy to join in.

Major New Public Information Campaign: Major media companies - including the Walt Disney Company, NBC, Universal and Viacom - have committed to join the First Lady's effort and increase public awareness of the need to combat obesity through public service announcements (PSAs), special programming, and marketing. The Ad Council, Warner Brothers and Scholastic Media have also partnered with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to run PSAs featuring top professional athletes, Scholastic Media's Maya & Miguel, and Warner Brothers' legendary Looney Tunes characters.

Guess those fit and trim folks at Fox News aren't invited to join in the fun.

It goes on and on and on, basically planning on spending untold billions and under the guise of some noble national goal that will merely create an immense federal bureaucracy that will never accomplish a thing. And if you criticize it you'll be told you don't care about the children.