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Biden On Recovery
Oliver Willis —
Vice President Biden, in the Sunday NY Times:
The care with which we are carrying out the provisions of the Recovery Act has led some people to ask whether we are moving too slowly. But the act was intended to provide steady support for our economy over an extended period — not a jolt that would last only a few months. Instead of quick-hit rebates, we are giving Americans a tax cut in each paycheck. Instead of pumping out all the state aid immediately, we are spreading it over the two years that it will be needed. Road projects, energy projects ...
Biden Still Defending Stimulus
The Page by Mark Halperin —
GETTY Makes the case that the recovery package is working in NY Times op-ed Sunday.
Joe Biden: Economic stimulus 'jolt' or no?
The Swamp —
... Critics who have asked, "where are the jobs,'' have "misconstrued'' the act, Vice President Joe Biden suggests in an Op-ed essay this morning in The New York Times. One third of the money went to tax breaks for individuals, he notes, and one third is going to state governments and individuals, averting the layoffs of teachers and police officers, for instance. ...
Biden defends stimulus in NYT op-ed
News —
... Joe Biden, the administration's point man on highlighting the effectiveness of the stimulus, took to the pages of the NY Times today to pen an op-ed in defense of the economic recover plan.…the nature of the Recovery Act remains misunderstood by many, and misconstrued by others: critics have suggested that the entire $787 billion is being spent on pet programs. As the person leading the administration's efforts to put the Recovery Act into effect, I want to set the record straight. The single largest part of the Recovery Act–more than one-third of it–is tax cuts: 95 percent ...
Biden wants to 'set the record straight'
Political Animal —
... in a couple of weeks ago -- making clear that the administration wouldn't concede an inch to those who helped create the economic collapse in the first place -- and will apparently continue. To that end, Vice President Biden has a piece in the New York Times today, noting that he wants to "set the record straight" because "the nature of the Recovery Act remains misunderstood by many, and misconstrued by others." The op-ed doesn't necessarily break new ground for those who keep up on current events -- the stimulus package cut taxes, helps states, saves and ...
Joltin’ Joe whiffs on his own curveball
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... After watching their stimulus package fail to stimulate and an increasing number of Americans wondering whether President Barack Obama has the first clue on economics, Vice President Joe Biden steps back into the fray to rescue his partner. In a New York Times op-ed , Biden argues that voters have misunderstood Porkulus. It wasn’t intended to deliver a big “jolt” to the economy, Biden says — apparently forgetting what he himself said last month: Notwithstanding this progress, the nature of the Recovery Act remains misunderstood by many, and misconstrued by others: critics ...
Joe's Jolts
The Corner on National Review Online —
Sunday, July 26, 2009 [image] Joe's Jolts [Jonathan Adler] Today Vice President Joe Biden argues that the stimulus bill is misunderstood. He writes: "the act was intended to provide steady support for our economy over an extended period not a jolt that would last only a few months." Yet as ...
Time for another round…
Cold Fury —
… of “is he lying, or just stupid?” This time our contestant is Greasy Joe Biden: The care with which we are carrying out the provisions of the Recovery Act has led some people to ask whether we are moving too slowly. But the act was intended to provide steady support for our economy over an extended period — not a jolt that would last only a few months. Except — oops oops oopsie!— that ain’t so, and even someone as thick as Greasy Joe knew it as recently as a month ago: As recently as June, at a roundtable in New York, Biden called the Recovery Act “an initial big jolt to give the economy a real head start.” In March, the vice president said ...
The Trouble with ‘Simple’ Words in this Current Age
The Moderate Voice —
... Vice President Biden takes to the pages of today’s NYT, defending the administration’s stimulus spending. In doing so, he writes: ...
The Trouble Today with ‘Simple’ Words
The Moderate Voice —
... Vice President Biden takes to the pages of today’s NYT, defending the administration’s stimulus spending. In doing so, he writes: ...
