Joe Biden says the stimulus bill was designed not to create jobs until the election year

The fact that it was done isn’t too surprising, the fact that Vice President Biden would be so honest about it is.

Joe Biden, speaking on the CBS Early Show, stated that the Stimulus Bill was designed in two stages, with the job creation portion of the bill in the second stage, which will kick in this year:

This is actually a pretty amazing assertion by the Vice President.  The White House ‘inherrited’ a country that was hemorrhaging jobs.  The Democrats in the House and Senate, along with President Obama, passed the stimulus practically overnight, without allowing debate on the bill, nor giving members of Congress a chance to read it, because it was critical that the bill was passed in an emergency fashion, because we needed to stop the job losses and start creating new jobs.  We all remember President Obama’s promise that if the Stimulus bill was passed that unemployment wouldn’t top 8%.

Now, Vice President Biden says that the bill was designed so that the job creation portion of the bill wouldn’t occur until the second year, which just coincidentally is an election year.

On its face, it appears that from the start Democrats sacrificed the American economy to create a massive spending bill that they hoped would create great photo ops and news stories 14-18 months after the bill was passed, just in time to help Democrats campaigning for the mid-term elections.