Biden, ‘Middle Class Task Force’ at UMSL Friday
Biden in the VP debate.
WASHINGTON — When Jake Wagman blogged recently that Vice President Joe Biden would be in town this week for a Democratic fundraiser, there were a few, well, unkind responses.
Might they have been from Sarah Palin fans, recalling that memorable debate last fall at Washington University?
Could it be that people are turned off these days by events in which fat cats pay up to $10,000 to hobnob with pols?
Maybe it’s something about Loquacious Joe.
Let it be known now that Biden will be doing more than passing the hat for political coffers while he’s in St. Louis. His office tells us this afternoon that on Friday, Biden will conduct the third in a series of Middle Class Task Force meetings.
When the Obama administration set up these traveling task forces, they called them “an important vehicle to assess new and existing policies across the board and determine if they are helping or hurting the middle class.”
The title of this one: Making College More Affordable for Our Familes. No time and precise location were immediately announced.
Seems like a campus is an appropriate venue to discuss why more and more young people can’t afford college these days.
I’ll have to remember to tell my wife to either leave earlier that morning or go to work by another route.
I can only wonder how much of I-70 will be tied up due to security demands.
“Seems like a campus is an appropriate venue to discuss why more and more young people can’t afford college these days.”
Why are applications at all time highs? Where in the rulebook of life does it say that a college degree has to be completed in 4 consecutive years and paid for likewise? Whatever happened to the notion of WORKING your way through school?
Let me guess, Uncle Joe and Daddy Barack is gonna make college free for all just like healthcare.
“there were a few, well, unkind responses.”
That my friends is what passes for ‘honest journalism’ not only at the Post but for most of the MSM… and their slobbering love affair with the Democrats.
As I’m sure many of you here remember “few” was nearly ALL. My comment… about half way in… was ‘gee you guys didn’t leave me much to say… you have already beat ol’ Joe to a pulp.’
Amazing… simply Amazing!
Oh joy. An evening of Greasy Joe waxing poetic about how fabulously smrt he is. No wonder the President selected him to be a running mate. Five minutes of Biden and you forget what a sanctimonious bore Obama is.
Let’s be honest, this is nothing but an excuse to get the taxpayers to pay his way here for the fundraiser.
Is it just me or does Biden remind you of a drunk uncle? His stories are all BS, but he swears they are all true.
Prediction: Biden’s idea of how to make college more affordable is to provide more federal subsidies to students. Perhaps somebody ought to figure out why it is that education is one of very few fields in which costs have increased, without ever reaping any benefit from either technology or economies of scale. That actually WOULD make college more affordable, instead of simply masking the high costs through subsidies.
Thanks my friends for helping make my point…
Everyone ‘gets it’
Except for Bill Lambrecht… but hey… we can only try
Having an educated population is good for our entire country, not just the actual college students. Education is a vital state interest. While I agree that it also makes sense to see where costs can be lowered, a vital country and economy requires an educated workforce, so it is in the interest of everyone to encourage as many people to go to college as possible.
I also think it is great that Biden is willing to talk to people who aren’t paying for the privelege, and I don’t understand how people can think that is an elitist thing to do. Do you really think it was less elitist for Bush to come to town, tie up traffic just as much as Biden will, and only appear at high-cost fundraisers? That’s a new definition of elitism to me.