In what is certainly the official Veep Portfolio for the Obama Administration, Vice President-elect Joe Biden has been put in charge of a task force to bolster the standard of living of middle-class and working families in America.
According to the story, the program, called the White House Task Force on Working Families, will concentrate on improving education and training for working-class Americans as well as protecting incomes and retirement security of the middle class.
Beyond the most obvious reason for this commission, I suggest the following reasons for its creation:
1. A commission is always the inside-the-Beltway answer; Obama is showing he has "arrived."
2. It's a jobs program for neoliberal friends.
3. It's a political lab to test neolib ideas.
4. It's a way to work on new lines of "dialog" and "outreach."
There, that wasn't hard at all.
And, you really need to form a commission for that? Snark aside, it proves reasons 1-3 are true.
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