Governors help

President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met with governors to discuss rising unemployment, falling tax revenue and increased demand for state services and to press for federal money to ease their fiscal strain.  Obama wants the governors to help the country hands on implementing strategies.  Obama and Biden told those at the National Governors Association meeting that the federal government needs to build a deeper relationship with the governors in order to put America on the path to long-term prosperity.