Rick Raw: Middle Class Task Force Helmed by VP Joe Biden–What in the Hell is Going On in Biden’s Playpen

By Rick Grant Commentary rickgrant01@comcast.net

As 2010 came crashing into our reality like a comet hitting Earth, the Swine on the Hill continue to screw up everything most people cherish and waste billions of our tax dollars. Meanwhile, we continue to fight the global terrorist threat.

More disastrous: As the new Health Care Bill simmers in the Hill’s caldron, it turns out to be a brain numbing fiasco. The bill’s trillion dollars in new spending makes the National Debt clock spin faster than Tonya Harding’s truck wheels after an all-night binge.

Worse still, I find out that our cluless VP buffoon, Joe Biden is hosting the Middle Class Task Force– a panel of experts brought together to save the sinking ship known as the middle class, which has been blown apart by the economic apocalypse. "Tally ho, send them a case of Velvetta cheese," the panel shouts.

Now, Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis is hawking the Paid Leave and Healthy Families Act. Oh, isn’t that nice! What a crock! She’s assuming there is a healthy middle class out there in the suburban sprawl of foreclosures.

The reality is: Those vast suburban subdivisions are mostly empty–foreclosed on after the great land grab of 2007. In 2008, the excrement hit the fan and the bottom dropped out of the housing market.

Obviously, Secretary Solis is delusional thinking that this Act will help millions of American workers. Get a grip, Solis, there are 30 million people still unemployed. Memo to Ms. Solis: There is virtually no middle class "healthy families" to protect. Wouldn’t it be more helpful to throw her support to helping the unemployed find jobs and crawl their way back to middle class?
This brings up a pertinent question: Why is it that our lawmakers and leaders, like Secretary Solis, seem so out of touch with mainstream America? It’s simple, they’re not, or have they ever been, middle class. One has to be filthy rich to run for office or get appointed to a high position in the administration.

These curs never had to struggle, working their way up in a company to become middle class. They didn’t have to suffer the humiliation of being laid-off or fired during the great job purging of American corporations, under the guise of a bad economy. They didn’t lose their house because they couldn’t find a job and pay the mortgage. They didn’t watch their family fall apart from the stress.

No, the politicos and kiss-ass bureaucrats made money the old fashioned way–they inherited it or committed fraud to get it. Biden is in the "inherited" category. Nonetheless, he’s a piss-poor advocate for the middle class since he lives like a king and has a mouth problem.

Ms. Solis contends that workers who take leave because they or their children become sick must not lose their jobs or risk some other form of disciplinary action by their employers. The Paid Leave and the Healthy Families Act protects their job if they are sick or caring for a chronically sick child.

All well and good. But we have other pressing priorities such as jobs, jobs, jobs. In his favor, Obama has addressed this issue and is working hard to provide real jobs in green industries and new technologies. But it’s too little too late.

Biden should spend some time with real families in crisis as they implode from within. I’ve talked to many of these people who were blasted out of their middle class existence by the sudden collapse of the economy in 2008.

The stalwart jobless are coping but the lack of jobs has fractured many families, who have spilt up to survive. It’s like the middle class disappeared overnight.

The truth is: Many big corporations used the economic apocalypse as a convenient excuse to trim their work force substantially–enhancing the bottom line. These jobs will never come back.

These Machiavellian companies are learning to use fewer employees to get things done. Of course, the remaining employees have to work much harder to take up the slack. We’re back to indentured servitude before unions became a strong force for workers.

So we get bullshit from the Swine on the Hill telling us, "Yeah, it will be okay, trust us!" Well, hell no, we don’t trust them. The money grubbing bastards on Wall Street got us into this mess, and now they are getting rich off our bailout tax money.

Biden can gather all the panels he wants, but they are not going to solve this problem until more new industries are encouraged to build their plants in America not Mexico or China.

In fact, we need to forbid companies from outsourcing jobs to other countries. Screw them, we need jobs here in America. So what would I do? I’d pass a law that states that any corporate CEO who even suggests outsourcing jobs and plants to other countries be publically flogged on live television. Yeah, I like that.