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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Biden: U.S. Got ‘Money's Worth’ From Stimulus
Separately, Romer says nation should expect positive job growth by spring
WASHINGTON - Vice President Joe Biden asserted in an interview Wednesday that taxpayers have "gotten their money's worth" out of the $787 billion stimulus program that Congress passed during the depths of the recession.
In an interview broadcast on CBS's "The Early Show," Biden defended the program against accusations by Republicans critics that it hasn't been the job-manufacturing machine the administration promised to the American people.
He argued that money invested in both private and public-sector initiatives has saved as many as 2 million jobs, and said, "I don't think they realize it." Biden said the program, now a year old, was designed to be implemented in two stages, saying "we've only been halfway through the act."
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As Mark Levin says " Joe biden was the dumbest man in the Senate and is now the dumbest Vice President ever.
agreed 10:40am, that's $383,000 per job, really not worth it at all.
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