Vice President Joe Biden sided with the Occupy Wall Street protesters saying the core of the movement is that the American people think “the bargain has been breached,” and they, “do not think the system is fair or on the level.”
Biden called Bank of America “tone deaf” for their new policy charging customers a fee to use their debit cards. “At a minimum they are incredibly tone deaf,” he said. “And at a maximum they are not, they are not paying their fair share of the bargain here and middle class people are getting killed!”
In an interview with David Gregory as part of The Atlantic/Aspen Institute’s Washington Ideas Forum, the vice president said the Republican party needs to be “strong” and “united” for any kind of deals to be made. He complimented House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, calling them a “partner” in negotiations. However, because of disagreements among the House Republican caucus, Biden noted they are “seriously hamstrung” in their ability to get anything passed.
When pressed by David about whether or not the Republican party was strong enough to beat the Obama-Biden ticket in 2012 , the vice president said, “Absolutely.”
Watch the entire interview above to see more of the Vice President’s take on the economy, and the 2012 reelection campaign.
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Can't wait to see Joe with the crowd, raging against the Man.
me,too jerk changed his tune fast today....1st reports had him saying protests were like the teaparty
Well not that the administration has injected Union help for the protesters all will be well...except for the bludgeoning (s) and knifing (s) and mass property damage they will incite....
I'm reading a new book...."Reckless Endangerment" by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner...It is very interesting...Thank you Mr. Clinton and Company while you had you pants down at your desk the rest of us were unaware that we would be taking it up the A$$ down the road.
did that idiot from Delaware ever figure out who Van Jones was?
If the Obama presidency had not bailed out Wall Street and the auto industry, would we have any less jobs, and would the $1.4 Trillion be there for Social Security, etc?
Whatever the answer, this resulting situation we are in belongs to the Obama presidency.
Joe Biden is a career politician who was unfortunately elected VPOTUS. Biden spent 36 years in the Senate in Delaware before getting elected Vice-President. Isn't it about time for all Americans to send Joe Biden and Barack Obama back to where they came from? Good luck in re-electing Barry Sotero and Joe "career politician" Biden in 2012, you're gonna need it.
Actually TARP was passed under Bush and was 50% spent before Obama took office. However, most of that money has been repaid with interest. I don't remember seeing that they used the repayment for SS, etc.
God Bless the Secrete Service!
Dems. couldn't get Barry to show up, so they decided to send his lackey, Uncle Joe.
Again. Doesn't matter what these fools have to say about OccupyWallSt. They are part of the problem. Same goes for you, MSNBC.
mitchj....boy you got that right! They should get a bonus too!
Some companies repaid bail-out funds with cash.
The Treasury purchased vacant foreclosed homes for $50 Billion off the balance sheet (They're worth $20 Billion at this time, and they are vacant and need maintenance and management) of certain bailed out banks.
The Treasury accepted stock from GM and others as re-payment. The stock at this time is lower in value than its cost.
Some companies have no bail-out re-payment deal yet.
I'm wondering, when the money is paid back where does it go?
Geithner keeps saying he has collected an additional $15 Billion in interest from the debtors.
Shouldn't the National Debt have gone back down when the repayments were made? Has the money been grabbed by somebody?
Of course Joe empathizes with the Marching Losers; after all, this whole protest is the DNC's attempt to form an opposition group to the Tea Party.
The Tea Party was very successful because its members are mostly successful people who built a good life for themselves and who want to see our system survive the attack from the radical left . The Wall St protestors, on the other hand are pretty much societal losers, who are dependent on their parents and the government; and, union dumbells who blindly fork over hard earned dollars to their union thug leaders and the DNC.
Yes righties, the protestors also vote, and they aren't voting for Republicans.
Eric, the people with jobs also vote, and they are not voting for the Democrats...
Mark, the democrats are the ones trying to get more people back to work. The Teapublicans are the ones who want to keep unemployment high.
toasty= how are they doing at that? How many net jobs? And how does it benefit Republicans to have high unemployment?
Really Mark? Given that there's a giant jobs bill that the teabaggers are attacking left and right, you still had to ask that?
It creates debt not jobs...you still haven't learnd your lesson from the fist stimulus bill...because that's all they did was change the name of. But Ig uess it fooled you!
And how many jobs have your precious tax cuts created? I suspect the reason nobody wants to tout those numbers is because they're in the negative.
what is astounding: people actually voted making it possible for this moron to be the leader of the free world!
Any politician claiming support now is doing it out of self-interest. Get out of our revolution you hacks.
Note to anyone pointing fingers at either side. It's not helping. All career politicians are the problem. Corporate campaign donors are a problem. Union campaign donors are a problem. Conservitives and liberals are both equally out of jobs because the government panders to their donors rather than the American public. Lets not forget who the real enemy is. It's not your neighbor because they vote differently than you. It's the political elite and their campaign donors who have taken the voice of the people.
Political Propaganda... the tea party movement started out as a righteous movement then the "neo cons" high jacked it and made it their own through media manipulation. Same story here, the younger American movement is trying to be highjacked by the "liberals". These politicians are bought and paid for, there's only one statesman I can trust: Ron Paul 2012.
Yeah, Ron Paul!!! Did you know he tipped his hat to the demonstrations near, or close to, the very beginning? I don't particularily care for his laize fair approach to business regulations and environmental protection but we can work with him on that. He's honest and humble enough to discuss the issues instead of handing down decreas.
Good to see you understand it Toasty, yes, tax cuts lower the numbers. What your missing is that the tax cut numbers are in the negative because we also have to reduce government size and spending. It would eventually even out then. In the end that means less money goes to the government and more into you pocket.
However, every bill proposed by Democrats involves taking more money from people via added taxes. They are targeting the richest of the rich now...if that plan fails like all the others have...who will the government go tax after them? Because the uber rich would already have uber taxes...so who becomes the next Tax Target? Who would you suggest get taxed after we have gone after our richest citizens?
Toasty wrote in response to Mark:
Straw man argument. Mark didn't say anything about tax cuts. Regards....
This is a big f_____g deal......just ask Joe!
What does Joe Biden do all day anyway, besides be president of the Senate?
he naps a lot...sometimes on the Senate floor while his boss is talking too........
75% of Americans want taxes raised on the rich. :-p
Did you seriously get ANOTHER of your accounts banned, "Robert?"
I'm seeing the same posters day after day making the same arguments - either you are 'paid' political posters and you are 'astro turfing', or you are unemployed, or you are employed and not working, students and not studying - and judging by your posts experience you aren't all retired. The one thing you all have in commom is your arrogance and your anger.
Paid Political Posters Here?......No way....... I am shocked!!!!.....oh yeah.....and I am amazed too!
Seriously, does anyone think this forum is sufficiently important that someone pays folks to post here? It's a serious question.
As long as the crowd is not screaming about the POTUS, like they've done in every past street demonstration in America, Biden "feels their pain".....
This crowd is screaming at big business and millionaires.
Uh, NYCG? Considering that the Tea Party has been shouted down in pretty much every demonstration since the first Wisconsin crows back in January, I'd say you're wrong.
There are 87 Tea Party Members.....there are 535 Members total in Congress.....what is the big deal about the Tea Party???
why is everyone so afraid of these protesters ?
joe,you are wrong these protesters are not like the tea party,these protesters are getting arrested,most of them are liberal,socialist like you and obama.
I don't know if they are liberal, but they are sure are pissed off at banks, big business, and millionaires.
They vote too, but not for Republicans.
William, sorry but you're wrong. Sure there are socialist, communists at these protests but there are also Ron Paul republicans. I've heard of tea partiers who were involved before the tea party was hijacked by the politican establishment and big money. The slogan "we are the 99%," rings true. There are people there fromall walks of life and with all sorts of political ideologies. The important thing is to not allow the media and the politicians in the left to hijack this movement as the right did with the tea partymovement.
I would not be surprised if they were not a direct sponsor of these loons since the unions are now part of their number. Clean house in 2012!
Yes, clean the house of the Tea Party.
Clean house of them all. You guys are not helping. Anyone with a track record of pandering to their campaign donors and lobbyists over the American public needs to be voted out. That means just about everyone.
I could be wrong, but maybe not Ron Paul. Not sure though
looks like most of the comments are in with my views,i think these protesters should be exported to greece so they can be with the rest of their socialist buddies.
its their right dummy--do you want to rewrite the constitution?
Bob, I'm pretty sure you felt the same way about the Tea Party protests?
The American people have the right to peaceably assemble and to petition the gov't for a redress of grievances. They do not have the right to disobey law enforcement officials and break the law. If an officer tells you to disperse and you do not, then officers have the right to arrest you. If you are disorderly, then you should be arrested for disorderly conduct. Peaceably assemble means just that, to peaceably assemble. Not trash the area by leaving all of your garbage behind.
bobv:
But it is NOT their right to infringe upon the rights of others to walk on public streets and access public buildings......dummy.
Public streets are for the public to walk on. Public buildings are for the public to go to.
It's not right to pepper spray people for nothing either.
The police don't usually pepper spray someone unless they're not compliant. Don't disobey law enforcement officials when they tell you to disperse, then maybe you won't get pepper sprayed for resisting arrest, simple.
workhorse2010, tell me you haven't seen the multitude of videos and stories about the police exerting their will just because they feel like it. C'mon man!!
Everyone needs to get involved with this thing. Conservatives, liberals. We all need to be on board. You've heard the phrase, "if you don't vote then you can't complain." Well it rings true here. If you don't get involved and you don't sway the diologe this will become the lefts equivilent of the tea party. Just another movement co-opted by the political elite for their own gains. Do you remember when the tea party began? They were all saying, "we're mad at both parties, they've both failed us, we're not republicans." The media labeled them, devided them, called them rightist and wrote them off as nuts. Well thats what they're doing here and all us conservatives are eating it up, we're turing against the people we need to be rallying with. We're forgeting that the political elite and their corporate and union masters are our real enemy. They're the ones who've robbed our voice. Get involved and we can help change our system.
Biden, you just stuck your mouth on your foot again, or is it foot in your mouth. Either way, I don't believe you. Take consolation in the fact that I wouldn't believe any other politician either. Those of us paying attention for the last 4 years or so are aware that there is no distinction between Wall Streeters/banker/politicians. You're all running on the same treadmill. I just hope that light you all think you see at the end of the tunnel is the great big old train that's gonna mow you down. I'm hoping that great big old train is American voters ousting all of you and replacing you with some new blood. Really new, not just who you and your cronies pick to replace you.
The new ones must have knowledge of the constitution (might take note that the original framers intended the primary focus of the fed. govt to be protection of the country), government function, economics and know how to play fair with others.
Worthy praise from the worst VP in American history.
He's got a three letter word for you J-O-B-S.
Worse than Cheney??
kind of like Dan Quayle right?
Who is Dan Quayle?
delaware here, we are so glad to be rid of that chia head. problem is, our AGeneral is is son. chris coons is just keeping the senate seat warm for baby bo bo biden
You can tell these people are not with the corporate funded tea party because they are getting arrested.
Of course he "sympathizes" with them. What politician is going to go on air and say, "These people are a bunch of hooligans that need to get their act together and get jobs. Instead of complaining about the problem, they should be out there FIXING the problem."
It's politics, plain and simple. I'd be surprised if *any* politician didn't, on one level, claim to "sympathize" with the protesters.
Good point Matt, finally, some common sense around here.
Cain and Romney.
"they should be out there FIXING the problem."
This movement to me seems like a mighty good place to start. The main message I'm hearing coming from OWS is that they want an end to the collusion of corporations and government. I'd say that message resonates across party lines.
"VP Biden empathizes with anti-Wall Street protests"
Biden/Obama smells votes. Sides with voters in every way possible. They threw money at Wallstreet and now they empathize with the people who protest against Wallstreet. They both voted FOR the bailout. It's what's called having your cake and eating it too.
Question is, How many chumps will believe these two faced clowns.
Awesome Jack! You got it.
Wow. A whole thread with nothing. I guess I'll add to it......blah..
dont occupy Wall Street, burn it to the ground.
Judging by the comments here, I guess most of you people LIKE being screwed by Wall St firms and banks.
Biden is an idot. Good pick from Obama. It shows you that a person never has someone work for him that is better than himself! It is so funny to watch this doinko!!
you are the idiot....
Biden---stick to something you know something about: HAIRPLUGS
But Joe, you and Obama Bin lyin are most of the reason the system is no longer fair!
i hope that joe knows his 401k is at wall street as well as most government workers... biting the hand that feeds you might not be that smart...but noone said this was smart as well as the unions being there also not sure why but they are also part of the problem i would guess.
An idiot showing empathy for idiots.
Biden is a fool working for a sinking fool
your the fool...
I am thrilled to no end that he empathizes . How about doing something about it , Joe ? Just empty talk ? You guys in the government appear sooo helpless, soooo useless. Maybe the protesters need to take pots and pans like they did in Argentina . The people got rid of four useless governments by pounding on pots and pans. Maybe we need to do it on Wall Street till someone hears them ?
It is amazing to me when politicians gand stand against the corporations who feed their election campaign.
Mr. Biden, in a free market, consumers are the ultimate judges of corporate behavior. If they do not like Bank of America's debit card fee, they will take their business somewhere else.
Your job is to help the President get a bipartisan job bill approved.
Just the start of something BIG-The Middle-class, the poor, and the American workers who were abandoned by Corporate America and Wall St are finally p.ss.d off.Wouldn't you be angry if your boss took his factory overseas, produced inferior products brought them back here, sold them at inflated prices and still lived a bigger mansion in the same neighborhood ?The revolution is building-My pitchfork is ready-VOTE INDEPENDENT
Jay...I'd want to know why those jobs went overseas...why a company can't make products in America and be competative. If you answer those questions, you'll identify the problem....(hint)....Washington D.C.
Eric, do you want to live like the Chinese? Dirt poor? Being told what to do, how many kids you can have. Which ones you can keep.