Monday, March 15, 2010
CINCINNATI, March 15 (UPI) -- The economic stimulus package would see the United States showing a net gain in jobs for the first quarter of 2010, Vice President Joe Biden said Monday.
"We're not just creating jobs and putting paychecks in somebody's pocket," Biden said in Cincinnati during a fundraising appearance for Rep. Steve Driehaus, D-Ohio. "Every bit of this money gets pumped back into the economy."
He told about 500 supporters who had paid between $100 and $500 for the luncheon the economic stimulus package passed last year means "you are going to see us creating a net-plus jobs this quarter."
Biden praised freshman representative Driehaus, who beat seven-term congressman Steve Chabot, a Republican, in the 2008 election and is trying to reclaim his seat in the 2010 midterm election.
He singled out Driehaus's work on getting federal funding to replace a 50-year-old bridge over the Ohio River in Cincinnati that became structurally unsound.
"He reached across the aisle. He reached across state lines. He reached across party lines to bring people together on this," Biden said. "That's the kind of work that encapsulates Steve Driehaus."
Biden also jabbed some Republican critics.
"I love these people who say you are trying to do too much," Biden said. "Tell that to the fellow who is out of work. tell that to the family that can no longer afford health insurance."
"I love these guys who think everything we do is a mistake but offer no tangible alternative," he said.
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