…he will reinvent and expand the middle class.
This Biden thing about expanding the middle class is a little old, but it needs to be repeated. It gives a glimpse into the out of control mindset of liberal leaders. It will not be long, hopefully, for Democratic followers to wake up and realize they have been relegated to working class enablers for the enrichment of liberal-socialist elitist leaders. I am not going to hold my breath though. Using terms like Democratic leaders or political leadership happens to be an oxymoron that I use reluctantly.
Every time a liberal politician talks about doing for the middle class, they really mean they will doing it to you. Think about it, really look at what you get or lose, look at who really benefits and understand who is paying for it. Your tax dollars are used to bring comfort and relief to political leadership and the wealthiest amongst us on the backs of the middle class.
How much are we going to sacrifice in our lives to enable those in control to maintain and expand their quality of life while the middle class is barely allowed to just get by. Taxes increase, fees double, pork projects continue and the middle class is ridiculed and shamed for not doing more. The answer is so politicians, Wall Street bankers, some lawyers, union leaders and more can maintain the lifestyle they have become accustomed with. Where is the sacrifice and the sharing of the pain? The fact is, based on income and spending ability, proportionately the middle class pay more in taxes than the so called wealthy. Add all of the fees, taxes, levies, and the disproportionate utility costs encumbered with government intervention, discretionary spending has limited the middle class to a support system for government largesse.
Over the next few decades there will be a push to move and consolidate the middle class into clustered housing environments, close to work to cut back driving and movement. The need for personal transportation will be curtailed and public transportation will flourish. The idea will be to conserve energy and consolidate government infrastructure projects into smaller geographical areas. The rhetoric from the left will be that we all must sacrifice and compromise to benefit society.
The trend has been in motion for decades but will accelerate under the Smart Growth social engineers favored by socialist liberals. Fundamentally, it will come down to a homeland security issue, to allow the people to be supervised and watched for their own good. Expanding the middle class is code for an expanded tax base to allow government to expand and isolate themselves from their constitutional responsibilities. Rural living will become a luxury enjoyed only by those that have survived and prospered under the new social order.
The underlying reason however will allow the elitists to maintain compounds or estates outside those consolidated urban enclaves to separate themselves from the working taxpayer class. A little Orwellian, maybe, but the writing is on the wall. Okay, tell me where I have gone overboard. Keep in mind that nepotism is becoming the leading criterion for holding office these days.
Somewhere along the way, Democrats have become lost in the rhetoric of their leadership and enamored by celebrity and have lost their ability to separate fact from fiction. Unfortunately, a few Republicans have followed suit and are slurping the Kool-Aid through the same straw.
As vice president, Joe Biden will oversee an Obama administration effort to find ways of building up the ranks of the middle class, that ambiguously defined segment of society most Americans identify with.
The task force will include four Cabinet members as well as other presidential advisers, the Obama transition team announced Sunday.
The goal is to recommend proposals to ensure the middle class is “no longer being left behind,” Biden said. The proposals could include executive orders and legislative plans.
“Our charge is to look at existing and future policies across the board and use a yard stick to measure how they are impacting the working and middle-class families,” Biden said in a statement released Sunday. “Is the number of these families growing? Are they prospering? President-elect Obama and I know the economic health of working families has eroded, and we intend to turn that around.”
Overseeing a task force has become tradition for vice presidents.
Dick Cheney led a task force on energy. Al Gore had the task of reinventing government. George H.W. Bush, while serving as Ronald Reagan’s vice president, oversaw a task force charged with reducing government regulation. While all of those efforts resulted in some accomplishments, it’s also clear that the issues they confronted were so large and systemic that many could and did question the progress they made.
Biden said the measure of economic success in an Obama administration would be whether the middle class was growing.
The transition team promised the task force’s work would be transparent, with annual reports on its findings and recommendations. Also, any submissions from outside groups are to be posted on the Internet. By comparison, Cheney, a former oil man, fought to keep the White House energy task force’s deliberations secret.
Task force members will include the secretaries of labor, health and human services, education, and commerce, as well as the directors of the National Economic Council, the Office of Management and Budget, the Domestic Policy Council and the head of the Council of Economic Advisers.
In an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Biden took care to define his role as vice president as going beyond a particular task. He said that when he discussed the job with Barack Obama during the campaign, he told Obama he didn’t “want to be the guy that goes out and has a specific assignment.” Rather, he wanted to have a voice in every matter of importance.
“I said I want a commitment from you that in every important decision you’ll make, every critical decision, economic and political as well as foreign policy, I’ll get to be in the room,” Biden said.
He said that Obama agreed and has adhered to that commitment.
“Every single solitary appointment he has made thus far, I have been in the room,” said Biden, who was elected seven times to the Senate. “The recommendations I have made in most cases, coincidentally, have been the recommendations that he’s picked, not because I made them, but because we think a lot alike.”
Biden also covered topics from the auto bailout to his continued desire to close the Guantanamo prison holding terrorist suspects:
–The loan agreement for automakers will require sacrifices from all segments of the industry. While saying organized labor did not bring the carmakers to the brink of collapse, unions in particular are “going to have to make some additional sacrifices, and they know it and they understand it.”
–The economic aid plan being readied by the Obama team will focus on creating a strong energy grid, will pay for thousands of new jobs focusing on making buildings and homes more energy efficient and will help health care providers invest in electronic record keeping for patients. “The end result, though, the money we’re spending, we’re going to get back three- and four fold.”
–The military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should close, and the U.S. reputation abroad has suffered as a result of the Bush administration’s policies on surveillance and detainees. “To quote from a previous national security report put out by the intelligence community, we have created, not dissuaded, more terrorists as a consequence of this policy,” Biden said.
–It’s up to the Justice Department to determine if charges should be filed against any member of the Bush administration for prisoner abuse that occurred at Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo. “President-elect Obama and I are not sitting thinking about the past,” he said.
Via: Fox News
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