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Biden: The Middle Class is dying
KansasCity Star ^ | September 16, 2008 | Matt Schofield

Posted on 09/16/2008 10:05:46 AM PDT by NewMediaFan

Joe Biden, by far the lowest profile member in the club of four now seeking the White House, lashed out on CNN's American Morning today, at economic policies that he says are killing the American Middle Class.

Below are a couple quotes from the show (and let's face it, they're Biden quotes, so they're long).

When asked what he and Barack Obama would do to fix the current economic mess, he said:

"Create jobs, keep people in their homes and increase regulatory oversight of the very people John has refused to regulate. And by creating job, we'd spend $600 billion on going out -- $60 billion creating new infrastructure jobs, roads, highways, bridges, all the things we need.

Keep people in their houses by allowing them to renegotiate not only their interest on their loans, but their principle on their loans and bankruptcy. Make sure that we're in a position where we start to deal with the debt. Look, John talked -- I just heard John's interview, I find it absolutely fascinating.

This is the same guy who wants to continue to spend $10 billion a months on the war in Iraq, when the Iraqis have $80 billion stashed away from oil prices. It's the same fellow who's going to part of his administration view he shares, it's going to hand the next president a $400 billion debt deficit for that year. This is the same guy who watched and presided over, not presided over, but supported Bush, says the economy's strong. And we lost 604,000 jobs this year. Come on! And the truth of the matter is, is what you heard in the last interview. Every economist points out that we give out tax breaks to the middle class ..bla bla blah

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; biden; democrats; economicpolicy; elections; hairplugs; nobama08; obamabiden
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not dying, just not showing up at his campaign events.
1 posted on 09/16/2008 10:05:47 AM PDT by NewMediaFan
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To: NewMediaFan

Biden: The Middle Class is Dying - OK, Joe, let’s raise taxes.


2 posted on 09/16/2008 10:07:40 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: NewMediaFan

I thought he meant that they are either getting rich (under capitalism) or getting poor (under Dem taxation policy). /sarc


3 posted on 09/16/2008 10:08:14 AM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: NewMediaFan

Joe,

I’m not dead yet.


4 posted on 09/16/2008 10:08:24 AM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.)
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To: NewMediaFan

Yes, we are being bled to death in taxes, Count Joe Dracula


5 posted on 09/16/2008 10:08:36 AM PDT by J40000
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To: NewMediaFan
Slow Joe thinks America is going to hell in a handbasket and there's nothing government can't do to fix what's wrong with her. The Biden philosophy in a nutshell.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

6 posted on 09/16/2008 10:08:55 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: NewMediaFan

Another uplifting interview with Biden, eh?


7 posted on 09/16/2008 10:08:58 AM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: NewMediaFan

Change, change and change your condom. You have been screwing the “middle class” for 32 years. Lying piece of crap.


8 posted on 09/16/2008 10:11:39 AM PDT by mmanager (What a mess we are in.)
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...and meanwhile at the VP debate... BIDEN : ... and furthermore, I feel that it is imperative that we all are...(gibberish gibberish gibberish)...

MODERATOR : Senator your time is up...

BIDEN : But I have just begun...

MODERATOR : Governor Palin, your reply...

PALIN : Gwen, What am I replying to?
9 posted on 09/16/2008 10:12:52 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Let's get serious - there is only one choice - McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: NewMediaFan

And Obama and Biden want the chance to finish the job.


10 posted on 09/16/2008 10:14:10 AM PDT by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publici scholae)
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To: NewMediaFan

Joe, Joe, Joe. You really need to start stealing your speeches from better sources.


11 posted on 09/16/2008 10:14:54 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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Biden: The Middle Class is dying

Yeah, and "This War Is Lost."

12 posted on 09/16/2008 10:15:31 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
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Joe bonehead and the rest of his communist ilk are idiots.

It’s been the policies foisted upon the public by the demoncraps over the past 50 years that’s killing the middle class.


13 posted on 09/16/2008 10:15:45 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats: Supporting America's enemies since 1824)
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To: NewMediaFan
I watched some of Obama’s economic stump speech on Fox and was just screaming at the top of my lungs at the TV. That Empty Suit was mouthing how he would solve every economic problem on the planet AND YET THE ASSCLOWN HAS NO RECORD OF ANY MEANINGFUL ACCOMPLISHMENT!
14 posted on 09/16/2008 10:16:12 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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Keep people in their houses by allowing them to renegotiate not only their interest on their loans, but their principle on their loans

That'll help the current financial crisis. Make banks pay for part of the house you bought.

15 posted on 09/16/2008 10:16:26 AM PDT by keepitreal ("I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message. . . until I don't.")
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“...keep people in their homes...”

So if some shmuck lender risks capital to bump up his bonus and some shmuck borrower overpays for a crappy house, goes underwater and then walks away, then those who risked and gained nothing get to pay to make everybody whole. Is that it, Joe?


16 posted on 09/16/2008 10:18:07 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: BigEdLB

BIDEN : It’s like I told the Governor of New York....”look here man”


17 posted on 09/16/2008 10:18:21 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Conservation? Let the NE Yankees freeze.... in the dark)
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To: NewMediaFan

If the Middle Class is dying, its because they are being taxed to death to fund social spending programs and entitlements that turn them into wards of the state.


18 posted on 09/16/2008 10:20:24 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: NewMediaFan

Communists do not want a middle class. Like the Russian kulaks, the middle class must be destroyed for Communism to enslave a society.


19 posted on 09/16/2008 10:21:55 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (When hopelessness replaces hope, it opens the door to evil.)
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To: NewMediaFan; All

The Middle class is “dying”, thanks to YOU, joe...

You’ve done EVERYTHING YOU CAN for 3 Decades to OUTFORCE the jobs the middle class dpended on.

You’ve done EVERYTHING YOU CAN to destroy the family culture the middle class is based on.

You’ve done EVERYTHING YOU CAN to increase the tax burden on the middle class.

YOU are the reason the middle class is disappearing, moron!!
Yet NO ONE, not one person in the MSM will dare to say this.


20 posted on 09/16/2008 10:25:06 AM PDT by tcrlaf (SARAH PALIN-The American Everywoman (Yes, You Really CAN!))
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