By: Deborah Mathis
In staffing the top posts of his imminent administration, Barack Obama has stolen the mantle of “maverick” and proved himself to be not only smart, but clever.
His foreign policy and economic teams may be packed with veterans – even Old Schoolers – but his choices to lead the labor, energy, housing and education departments are brilliantly inspired.
This bodes well for the offer of change and for hopes that the promised “new day” means a new way of approaching resistant problems that are hardest on the poor and working class.
Maybe now American workers really have a chance at reclaiming their dignity, job security, wage fairness and opportunities for advancement.
Maybe now the U.S. will actually take some responsibility for and control of global warming, and we’ll see some real strides toward breaking the confiscatory addiction to foreign oil.
Maybe now affordable housing will bloom across the landscape, and subsidized housing will no longer be synonymous with “rat hole.”
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