Every time we turn around the liberals are giving up. Whether it is the  
  war, the economy, jobs etc.  They know how to quit and how to drag this  
  country down...  I can only imagine if this were Bush ?  These times  
  continue to look more and more like the Carter years...  IS the hope  
  gone now and we are left with change for the worse ?  
    
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  http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20008924-503544.html  
    
  June 25, 2010 5:52 PM  
  Biden: We Can't Recover All the Jobs Lost  
    
  Posted by Stephanie Condon  
    
  Vice President Joe Biden gave a stark assessment of the economy today,  
  telling an audience of supporters, "there's no possibility to restore 8  
  million jobs lost in the Great Recession."  
    
    
  Appearing at a fundraiser with Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) in  
  Milwaukee, the vice president remarked that by the time he and President  
  Obama took office in 2008, the gross domestic product had shrunk and  
  hundreds of thousands of jobs had been lost.  
    
    
  "We inherited a godawful mess," he said, adding there was "no way to  
  regenerate $3 trillion that was lost. Not misplaced, lost."  
    
    
  Claims for jobless benefits fell by the largest number in two months  
  last week, but were still high enough to signal weak job growth.  
  Meanwhile, the Senate on Thursday failed to pass an extension of  
  unemployment benefits.  
    
    
  Biden said today the economy is improving and noted that in the past  
  four quarters, there has been 4 percent growth in the economy. Over the  
  last five months, more than 500,000 private sector jobs were created.  
    
    
  "We know that's not enough," the vice president said.  
    
    
  Last week the White House put out a Recovery and Reinvestment Act update  
  claiming that between 2.2 million and 2.8 million jobs were either saved  
  or created because of the stimulus as of March 2010. In signing the  
  Recovery Act into law on Feb 17, 2009, Mr. Obama said the measure "will  
  create or save 3-and-a-half million jobs over the next two years."  
    
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