Vice President says unemployed should ‘hang in there’

Yahoo ^ | 1/28/11 | Rachel Rose Hartman

[Libloather]

Vice President says unemployed should ‘hang in there’
By Rachel Rose Hartman
Fri Jan 28, 9:40 am ET

Yahoo! asked Vice President Joe Biden Thursday to give some good advice for the unemployed. He provided a list of recent improvements to the economy, while expressing sympathy for those struggling to get by without a regular income.

"So the message is 'hang in there?'" Yahoo!'s Anna Robertson asked.

"The message is hang in there," he repeated.

Republicans gained traction in last year's election by asking "where are the jobs?" and highlighting Americans' dissatisfaction with the economy. GOP Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin also made the jobs question as the focus of his State of the Union response this week.

But in Thursday's interview, Biden stressed that the recovery of the labor economy would be slow and gradual--even though the GOP has harnessed widespread impatience with that view for political gain.

"Things are coming back," Biden said, after noting that the unemployment rate is now dropping "minimally," businesses are investing, banks are lending, and companies are gaining confidence.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Pretty soon all of our savings will be gone.

This was the RATS way of creating the welfare society.

And it is working. I don’t think we can last till 2012.

[cgbg]

Biden is lying.

Things are not coming back for a long long time.

This is a Depression—the only question is how many years they wait before they stop playing numbers games and tell the truth.

Look at state tax revenues—real numbers that can’t be fudged—case closed.

[UpInArms]

Somebody let Crazy Unca Joe out of the attic again.

[tobyhill]

The shipment of shovels are almost here from China.

[dfwgator]

He told Mubarak to do the same thing.

[Iron Munro]

"WTF!!!!!!!!"

[PalmettoMason]

He might as well have told them to 'Endeavor to Persevere'

From my all time favorite movie. Thanks!

"Are you going to pull those pistols, or whistle Dixie?"

[Nat Turner]

Stand up Joe...oh Im sorry LOL!!!!

from The infamous senator trying to get cripples to stand up !!

[Chode]

i guess he wore "hope for change" out... now it's just "hang in there"

what's next? Sh!t Happens???

[grey_whiskers]

Stand up, Chuck!

(Only Teh One^TM can perform miracles...)

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

And the best part?

The cartoon is from Feb. 2009!

Cheers!

[philman_36]

"The message is hang in there," he repeated.
Biden admits, backhandedly, that the noose is ever tightening!
Hang in there means a slow, painful and long suffering suffocation whilst dangling at the end of a rope until someone cuts you down.

Way to go, Joe. You've got an excellent analogy there.
Hurry up with the knife...for the rope that is, not my throat.

[grey_whiskers]

"Hang in There".

Who sold you the rope, Joe?

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

"I can see 2012 from my House."

Cheers!

[SunkenCiv]

And the unemployed respond, “Hey Joe — you first.”

Thanks Libloather.

[philman_36]

My thoughts exactly! See my reply above.

[chooseascreennamepat]

So they should ‘hang in there’?

As opposed to...?

He better stay away from prize fights. They have “rope-a-dope”.

[denydenydeny]

Try to imagine the reaction to Dick Cheney saying something like this.

[Grunthor]

If unemployment is still high (8% or higher) come election day we will have a new President.

[mandaladon]

“The message is hang in there,” this goes well with obama’s WTF message. Can’t wait for 2012!