‘Everyone Guessed Wrong’: Biden Explains Why Unemployment Soared After Stimulus

"The economy was worse off when we made the assessment than anyone thought it was."

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June 14, 2009 at 12:34 pm - NBC News/Meet the Press
Dateline: Washington, DC
DontTaseMeBro   June 14th, 2009 - 12:46 pm

Wait … wait … wait!

You mean to tell me that I have been right all along knowing people in this administration are just a bunch of idiots!

… or maybe they have just been lying to us the whole time, going for the power grab, stuffing the pockets of their cronies, using the “stimulus” money to payback those that got them into power.

Nah! I hope that’s not true … gosh, I just don’t what to believe now.

Is this the best team we could have voted for the best nation on earth? According to the press it is and since they are right all the time and are looking out for our best interest, I guess so.

I’m really confused now!

Greg   June 14th, 2009 - 12:50 pm

I hope everyone knows by now that we have been duped and this is an administration of amateur thugs.

I am afraid we’re not going to recover from this one.

Thank you very much for all that voted for hope & change. I doubt they’ll be any change in my pocket after this guy gets finished with us.

RAY D   June 14th, 2009 - 12:55 pm

BWWWWAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!
You idiots who voted for these clowns deserve a jalapeno enema.
Look f-u-c-k-t-a-r-d-s, if you get government involved, all they can do is take or re-arrange. They produce NOTHING. You idiots. Business produces business. Employers create employees. If you aren’t a free-loading ignoramus, you know that. But since you idiots voted for the great Kansas-Kenyan Oz, you probably believe in health care and welfare for all…since you won’t have to pay for it. God I hate liberals.

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Doug   June 14th, 2009 - 1:00 pm

Do they think we are really THAT stupid?

I suppose if they can keep us distracted by fighting and arguing with each other they will have free reign.

Divide and conquer as they say, divide and conquer.

We’re all sheep and no one seems to care.

PupsMcCann   June 14th, 2009 - 1:08 pm

Wow that was just painful to watch! Biden and the Dems will lie, cheat and steal to get their way and then deny that they did anything wrong and that all is well.

But number don’t lie, unlike politicians.

Kenny C   June 14th, 2009 - 1:19 pm

I keep hoping that the military wakes up and storms Washington and throw all these lying…..tax cheats….murders….scum bags in the clink and we can start fresh….but that’s just wishful thinking I guess

Mike   June 14th, 2009 - 1:20 pm

I am beginning to see why the left is so desperately trying to demonize and silent voices like Rush Limbaugh.

Rush predicted only a couple of months ago that when things did not work out with the stimulus bailouts that this administration, particularly Obama, would say something like “it is a good thing we did what we did because things would be worse.”

He was close.

Instead they come out and say “EVERYONE GUESSED WRONG!”

Everyone Biden? You mean not a single person on your team saw what was coming?

You must understand that Biden is a fool. He is a blowhard. Can’t help himself. He will spill the beans every time and he has done it again thinking he’s being smooth with us.

If no one in this administration saw that the stimulus would have no effect and many, many, many, people on the right saw that to be true, then who deserves the PRIVILEGE to get us out of this mess?

Hope and change – yea, right!

We all knew it was going to bad but I’m beginning to believe we don’t know half of what’s coming.

RUFUS   June 14th, 2009 - 1:20 pm

GUESSED??? GUESSED??? GUESSED???
Who claimed they were just GUESSING at the time. They said if we did not do what they demanded that then entire nation would melt down. Nobody called it GUESSING.

Now…the CEO of GMC might have guessed about the auto industry…and the Obama boys made him quit,

and the CEO of Chryler might have guessed, and the Obama boys made him go away,

And the AIG folks might have guessed about mortgage backed securities…and the Obama boys made all of them go away,

And the Bank Presidents may have guessed about the credit industry products, and the Obama boys made them salute the flag, take a stimulus enema or go away.

SO NOT BIDEN SAYS THE DEMOCRAT CONGRESS, AND THE OBAMA TREASURY SECY AND HIS CABINET, AND ALL THE ECONOMISTS THAT THEY HIRED TO COME TELL THEM WHAT TO DO…THEY ALL GUESSED!!

THEN WHY HAVE THE OBAMA BOYS NOT FIRED THEM ALL, INCLUDING BIDEN, PELOSI, FRANK, DODD, SCHUMER, GEITHNER, BERNECKI, SUMMERS, …. WELL, MAYBE SOME GUESSES ARE JUST FORGIVABLE IF THEY ARE DEMOCRAT GUESSES.

WHAT FOOLS.

RUFUS   June 14th, 2009 - 1:27 pm

JOE. I AM SOMEONE.
I AM PART OF “EVERYONE.”
I DO NOT FEEL BETTER ABOUT WHERE THE ECONOMY IS GOING AT ALL.
JUST SO YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR LIE.

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I Told You So   June 14th, 2009 - 2:12 pm

Obama was right …

Hope & change, hope & change …

HOPE we make it and only a handful of CHANGE leftover after he’s finished with us.

“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for …”

Lying Liars   June 14th, 2009 - 2:43 pm

The sad situation we are now in is the result of dumb, white people that voted with bl@cks to put this bunch of morons in power. Even though its a fact that not only was the stimulus a waste of our money and this administration was wrong about it, so are they wrong about our country’s defenses and we are now weaker as a result of decisions made by this administration. Lets all just hope that stupid decisions like Gitmo and interrogations and reading Miranda rights to enemy combatants(sigh!) don’t result in terrorist attacks on our soil.

DontTaseMeBro   June 14th, 2009 - 3:07 pm

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Really?   June 14th, 2009 - 3:11 pm

Does Joe Biden have any credibility? Can you believe anything he says? Did he answer any question or just repeat the party line? Under the current plan (administration) the budget will never be balanced or in positive numbers. We will never pay down our debt. Sort of like paying the minimum on your credit card. Just keep spending and the US debt keeps rising. So fiscally wrong!!

DontTaseMeBro   June 14th, 2009 - 3:13 pm

What’s this crap about “jobs being saved or created”!

DOUBLE STANDARD! There is no way a republican politician would EVER get away with such a ridiculous statement. How do you determine how many jobs are saved?

Blatant double standard and it shows you how “in the tank” the media is in the tank for anyone who has a “D” next to their name.

It seems most people don’t realize how much trouble we are in now that no one is watching.

scabbeus   June 14th, 2009 - 3:19 pm

LyLiar: You are correct but even worse is the fact that these same morons support the job he/they are doing. Recent history is repeating itself: he is our very own “Chocolate Chavez”!

vice~   June 14th, 2009 - 4:52 pm

Joe biden
just thought you’d like to know
you are WRONG on this issue. As you’ve been wrong On every issue for the past 35 years in politics.

I am cutting more libtard jobs as I type this
and I suggest others do the same. If they are liberal and voted for Obama, cut their job now!

The economy is worsening & look at obama’s past plans they have all been disasterous (the sub prime morgage was a big factor in why are economy went downhill – IT STARTED AFTER DEMS GOT CONTROL OF CONGRESS IN 2006

Obama caused it by forcing banks to grant loans to poor people that never could of afforded or paid it back

The future looks grim at this point.
Obama only has 3 options:

1. Raise taxes, prolonging the recession greatly
and destroying businesses.

2. He can print more money, destroying the dollar and our economy in the process.

3. Or he can borrow more money with high payback interest rates from countries like China. This will send the economy spiraling down into depression. & will also doom you and your children’s children children’s children children’s children to massive debt. One that Americans will never be able to pay off until there is a World War 3.

Did obama neglect to mention that if you get a tax break…. If he taxes Businesses they don’t pay taxes… what they do is force -you- the consumer to pay more for your goods….

So what your really getting is… your wages cut by 50%, the prices of your goods increased by 50% (buying less for more…), and more than likely being laid off or fired when things get really bad in 3 yrs. …and when the businesses go backrupt or leave the country.

who do you think Obama comes to tax next for healthcare? IT’S YOU!

H2K   June 14th, 2009 - 5:09 pm

Speaking of f-u-c-k-t-a-r-d-s, what about David Gregory? He was one of the top journalists in the tank for Obama and that whole hope-n-change blah blah. Couldn’t this well educated Columbia School of Journalism student see that this whole team were amateurs and the American people – many of them very ignorant and naive – were being sold a very devisive, and yes r@c!st platform?
I loved it when Gregory was talking about the stimulus “being sold to reduce unemployment” – which I consider to be a phrase used to dupe people – and Biden says “no no no no, we sold the stimulus package on the fact that it would save or create jobs”.
Hey America – it was a marketing effort to “sell” you this stimulus package.
I don’t like the Republicans much, but at least many of them recognized this and voted against it. All democrats voted for this.

Gandhi's Fist   June 14th, 2009 - 5:41 pm

Unemployment soared because the dems are rank amateurs. Obama and the Dems are attempting to socialize a capitalist economy, so this was bound to happen. The dems and especially the administration live in a world of ideology. Truths lose out to lies if it serves the model they desire. One would think the dems goals are laudable on first blush, but issue to issue it is possible to see they’ve created a primrose path to hell.

Underachieving minorities in schools/workplace? Get them into college/positions via affirmative action. That one is called racism. How about welfare–sounds good–until you think about it and see what it is like in actual practice. Then you end up with generations of dependent minorities almost forced to vote as a block for the party that feeds and houses them from our tax dollars. If it isn’t slavery, it’s the next best thing. It’s so bad, that in the intercity welfare dependence is generational. An American shame, if you ask me. Government educators at public schools no longer teach children how to think, they teach them how to believe and that belief is called secularism. It is no small wonder that we’re in the trouble we find ourselves in today.

I’m not much in love with the republicans either. With a wink and nod, they never roll back the massive tax increases of the dems, yet they’re the only other game in town. So, just as radical libs have co-opted the dems, actual conservatives should get more involved in their party. At this rate–should we hold off much longer–they’ll be hoisting a hammer and sickle at the nation’s capitol and we’ll have no one to blame but ourselves.

fande3rls   June 14th, 2009 - 6:02 pm

“All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.” –James Madison

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” –James Madison

If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one….” –James Madison

“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”

- James Madison

“Remember, a patch on your coat and money in your pocket is more credible than a writ on your back and no money to take it off.”

- Benjamin Franklin
on Frugality

“Being out of debt myself, my credit could not be shaken by any run upon me; out of debt, as the proverb says, was being out of danger.”

- Benjamin Franklin

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Benjamin Franklin

“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.” –Presbyterian minister William J.H. Boetcker (1873-1962)

“We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money.” –American hunter, frontiersman, soldier and politician Davy Crockett (1786-1836)

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

John Marshall, McCullough v. Maryland, 1819

DontTaseMeBro   June 14th, 2009 - 6:39 pm

“A government that is big enough to give you everything is also big enough to take everything away” – Thomas Jefferson

Dr. L'Arsemark Acorn Jerkon   June 14th, 2009 - 9:09 pm

Where’s L’Arse and Merry Phat Jerkon and the rest of the ridiculous LEFT-WING MARXIST WHACKNUTS when you’d really like to hear from them?

Hahahahahhahahahaa!!!

Geo Washington   June 14th, 2009 - 10:01 pm

It is really sad that the USA has to elect someone for the second most important position in the world with such limited qualifications, knowledge, and ability. I thought Quail was weak but Biden makes him look like a genius. I thought Gore was weak but he makes Biden look awful. I thought Mondale was weak but he makes Biden pale in comparison. We have truly become a third world country like Zimbabwe or Haiti with no leaders, just corrupt, lying politicians with no ethics and no character. Why are we commiting national suicide? Doesn’t anybody care anymore?

vice~   June 14th, 2009 - 10:22 pm

time to fire more l-i-b-t-a-r-d-s from their jobs
40 to 60% sounds about adaquate, right?
Businesses will be in ruination
thanks to Obama’s Socialist/Marxist plans

remember to vote for anyone other than obama in the next election.

the actual recovery of the American Economy begins, either after obama suffers a jfk incident, is removed from office… or when his 1 term is up.

kmichaels   June 15th, 2009 - 10:33 am

Most Republicans said this is exactly what would happen. Perhaps hopey dopey snooty snotty Obama guessed wrong. Perhaps Biden guessed wrong. But Republicans knew what would happen. It is called brains. Surely idiot Biden did not believe their own lies.

CON-serva-tard   June 15th, 2009 - 8:22 pm

If I’m a retarded liberal, wouldn’t that put me at such a mental disadvantage as to be a conservative?

Hey, you guys should all be happy because when the country goes commie, everyone will have a job again, and then when everyone has a job, everyone will be a beneficiary of the welfare state, not just those smart poor people. We’ll all have jobs, we’ll all have housing – but oh yeah, they will be coming to take your guns.

You kids can’t see an upside if you were layin’ on your backs.

.

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   June 15th, 2009 - 10:33 pm

Listen up…America…this financial crisis…is a man made crisis…made up for the convenience of getting the agenda of the Bilderberg Society in play in America.

That agenda includes taking America down from within starting with our financial economy!

Volcker and Paulson, two Federal Reserve Bilderberg puppets, were the ones that proclaimed this crisis under the administration of George W and with the approval of Bilderberg Bush-Obama.

That started the ball rolling and Bilderberg Bush-Obama and his congressional henchmen have been working the “sky is falling” from that day forward! Pushing through one big spending bill after another…bankrupting America and putting our children and grandchildren in debt for the rest of “their” lives!

Now they want to “overhaul” the greatest healthcare system in the world!

Why? Because it will be the ‘STRAW THAT BREAKS THE CAMEL’S BACK”!

And guess who we are, America, we are the camel!

It will put the final nail on the coffin in the death of democracy in America!

It needs to stop…call/email your reps and tell them…

NO>>>NO>>>NO>>>NO>>>!

We need a tweaking and we want to take our time doing it! We also want medical professionals, such as doctors, nurses and other personnel that “know” the healthcare system in and out…not the crazy henchmen politicians doing the bidding of Bilderberg Bush-Obama and his agenda to take America down from within!

Enough is enough! Stop it America…we and only we have the power to do so!

====================

JUST ANOTHER PATHETIC DAY IN THE ‘REIGN OF BARRY HUSSEIN’ AND HIS BILDERBERG AGENDA TO TAKE AMERICA DOWN BY STARTING THIS FINANCIAL CRISIS!

Richard Wong   August 27th, 2009 - 1:19 am

Is this guy really this STUPID?
I am in a State that has broken 11% unemployment.
When Bush left office our State unemployment was 7.8%!
There is NO ONE in this State hiring EVERYONE is terrified of the taxes headed their way to pay for this Administrations spending and the Mafia Take Over of Health Care will lose millions of more jobs as small business shed employees due to the forced health care cost.

Our business is off over 57% since the stimulus bill passed. I have let 6 employees go this year and may cut back to just my Wife and I and let our last three employees go due to the lack of new business. We can NOT afford their health care and a 7% tax for not providing it would kill any margin we have left this year.

If Cap and Tax passes and my electric bill doubles I will be forced to shut down a business I have run for 23 years.
I hope you fools that voted for this are getting the “Change” you voted for, because us small business have no change left to hire you with.

This is what happens when $6 an hour employees vote for words NOT policies. Stupid people elected this group and the STUPID will suffer the most

mitch   August 27th, 2009 - 9:51 am

Um, I didn’t guess wrong. Neither did any of the normal people I talk to on a day to day basis that knew the stimulus was just a cash grab by corrupt officials. It seems that just the people who voted for it, got it wrong. Actually, I don’t think they ever thought it would do anything other than enrich themselves and the people they owed favors to.

John Shepard   August 27th, 2009 - 12:14 pm

It doesn’t surprise me that this administration “guessed wrong” about the approaching economic calamity we have been enduring. The Kenyan never so much as ran a lemonade stand before being elected as the hope-n-change president. I personally rue the day the young unwashed elected this rogue.

The Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations and the FED are prime examples of the unconstitutional influence peddlers who are striving mightily to bring down America.

Wake up, people!! How many of you have EVER written to your senators or congresspeople about ANYTHING? My guess is maybe ten percent if that. How many of you have EVER voted? If you don’t contact your local politicians demanding answers to unanswered questions, and if you don’t vote, either, then YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION!!

America is falling down around our ears, Gentle Readers, and by the Congress doing nothing to forestall it or change it, makes the Congress complicit is America’s demise, and collectively a bunch of traitors.

Rant over. Over

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