Posted on 01/15/2020 11:36:23 AM PST by karpov
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said during Tuesday's debate that he could not afford childcare during his early Senate days, though his salary at the time amounted to the modern equivalent of a quarter of a million dollars per year.
"I was a single parent, too," Biden said when asked about universal childcare. "When my wife and daughter were killed, my two boys I had to raise. I was a senator, a young senator, I just hadn't been sworn in yet. And I was making $42,000 a year."
"I commuted every single solitary day to Wilmington, Delaware … 250 miles a day," the former vice president continued. "Because I could not afford, but for my family, childcare. It was beyond my reach to be able to do it."
While living on $42,000 would place Biden in the bottom half of U.S. households in today's dollars, it placed him firmly among the richest Americans when he was sworn in as senator in 1973. Biden's freshman Senate salary of $42,500 would be the equivalent of $256,370.77 in 2019 dollars, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator.
In a 1981 op-ed for the Salisbury, Md, newspaper the Daily Times titled "Congress is supporting deterioration of family," Biden even argued that families in his income bracket were precisely the sort who did not need the federal government's help providing for their childcare.
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Is there anything these dim/socialists just don’t make up or spin for political gain?
In 1973, 42 thousand dollars was a big chunk of money.
A new Chevy pickup was 3-4 thousand.
The average house was 32 thousand
The average family income was 12,900.00
“...my two boys I had to raise...”
Sure did a fine job there Joe.
Well he’s got that child care figured out now. Let Burisma do it.
And he did such a great job as a parent didn’t he
/sarc
Then he said he drove 500 eeer 350 miles per day back to Delaware. Bullshite.
Cal Worthington, $2995!!
Again using his dead wife and daughter for a political race.
When your son's smoking crack and getting pegged in the Hustler Club, can you really claim you raised him?
No lie is to outlandish for Biteme.
Joe Biden is suffering from early stages of dimentia and/or alzheimers, how long are they going to let this go on ??
he taught them well...
In 1973 the median average family income was $12,000/yr.
Then stop trying to increase minimum wage!
Probably by now there is some required certification for babysitters, required courses, fees, all updated yearly. The only ones who would be able to afford that would be large corporations placing adult babysitters in houses.
I can see it now, the FBI doing sting operations to catch 13 year olds on the act, Fugitive 14 year olds from the law, parents incarcerated for ‘requesting unlicensed care’, their kids being sucked into the foster home black hole.
What a nightmare.
So he wants to put up a federal budget?
DK
Joe BiteMe Biden is a liar and always has been
We will grow tired of Slow Joe’s tale of how heroically he carried on after the deaths of his wife and daughter, and he will no doubt bring up his son Beau’s death to brain cancer.
It is not appropriate to use the deaths of relatives as campaign props to elicit sympathy from voters.
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