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Can someone summarize this for me please?!?

Biden: `We misread how bad the economy was'

WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden said the Obama administration "misread how bad the economy was" but stands by its stimulus package and believes the plan will create more jobs as the pace of its spending picks up.

Biden, in an interview airing Sunday on ABC's "This Week," said the nation's 9.5 percent unemployment rate is "much too high."

"The figures we worked off of in January were the consensus figures and most of the blue chip indexes out there," Biden said.

"We misread how bad the economy was, but we are now only about 120 days into the recovery package," Biden added. More jobs will be created in coming months, he said.

Biden noted that the $787 billion economic stimulus package was set up to spend the money over 18 months. Major programs will take effect in September, including $7.5 billion for broadband Internet service, plus new money for high-speed rail and the nation's electrical grid, he said.

Biden said it's premature to say whether the country will need a second stimulus package.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Just find the main points of the article, that's what summarizing is.

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    1 decade ago

    With very little help from the previous administration, we have now accessed the economic situation for what it has come to be,a catastrophe. Recent actions as close as December 2008 multiplied an already staggering economic picture.The plans implemented, although effective to some extent may prove to have been an inadequate response. Only time will tell. We cannot fully repair a problem that still has not shown its full ugly reality.Sorry but I guess I'm lucky to be a speech writer. Not!

    I saw "Wayne's World" last night.

  • 1 decade ago

    no im not ur slave

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