Biden Appears to Forget Name of Great Recession and Gets Mistaken Over $800 Billion Stimulus Package He Oversaw

Newsweak via MSN ^ | 10/04/20 | Aristos Georgiou

[Libloather]

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden appeared to forget the name of the Great Recession while also getting confused about the economic stimulus package he oversaw while serving as Barack Obama's Vice President during a speech on Saturday.

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But when Biden went on to compare the current situation to the Great Recession, the global economic downturn that occurred between 2007 and 2009, the presidential nominee appeared to stumble over its name, while also getting confused about the size of the stimulus package he oversaw.

"You may remember, when we went through this with the Great... with the uh, that, that, uh, uh, the single most significant recession in American history short of a depression, and Barack and I came into office and we were inherited the Bush recession, I was asked to manage the recovery act which was $80 billion. Eighty billion do... excuse me, $800 billion," Biden said.

"And the first thing I was able to do is get over a $140 billion to the states and localities so they didn't have to lay off transit workers, they didn't have to lay off firefighters, they didn't have to lay off police officer."

[William Tell]

”Must have serious side effects or they would have him on them all the time.“

Another possibility is that the required meds lose effectiveness if taken constantly. This was the hypothesis about the meds Hillary may have been on. She delayed going on stage once by nearly an hour for no apparent reason. Theory was that she was waiting for her drugs to kick in.

[Patriot_MP]

oh — I am.... [thumbs up]

[clearcarbon]

"Biden Appears to Forget Name of Great Recession"