As unemployment continues to rise here are some words from our vice president about how we combat the recession:
Vice President Biden defended the stimulus package Friday, saying the economy would be in far worse shape without it. But he added that while the pace of layoffs has slowed, the Obama administration is not satisfied.
“We don’t think that less bad is good,” he said from the White House. “Less bad is not our measure of success. One job lost is one job too many and too much pain.”
Biden said efforts to accelerate stimulus spending need to be “redoubled” in the weeks ahead.
“Today’s bad news does not change my confidence in the fact that we are going to recover,” he said. “We will be producing jobs, the American economy and the job engine is going to be created and moving once again and I believe we’re doing the right things to move things in the right direction.”
Sure, we are going to recover, but where are all the sunny days this administration promised would come on the heels of the stimulus package? (And the ones the Bush administration said were coming with his stimulus?) Maybe, just maybe we aren’t attacking this problem the right way, and maybe the stimulus was full of crap we didn’t need, and missing measures we did need. of course, no one read the bill so who knows what’s in there!
