Proving that last week’s bizarre riff on rape and murder by the veep wasn’t a gaffe or a one-off. This is the man’s actual sales pitch. Video at the link.
“I wish these guys who thought it was temporary, I wish they had some notion of what it was like to be on the other side of a gun, or [to have] a 200-pound man standing over you, telling you to submit,” Biden told a crowd at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on Tuesday, adding, “Folks, it matter, it matters.”
Biden attacked critics of Obama’s American Jobs Act who call the federal spending temporary, saying it does not matter if the spending is temporary if it funds public safety jobs that could prevent rape and murder.
“The other thing I’ve hear from my friends who oppose this – this whole jobs bill – [is] that this is just temporary,” Biden said.
“Well let me tell you, it’s not temporary when that 911 call comes in and a woman’s being raped, if a cop shows up in time to prevent the rape. It’s not temporary to that woman,” said Biden. “It’s not temporary to the guy whose store is being held up and there’s a gun pointed at his head, if a cop shows up and he’s not killed. That’s not temporary to that store owner. Give me a break! Temporary. ”
The debt that the jobs bill would force on future generations isn’t temporary either. There’s always a question of how government spending gets paid for, and the Democrats’ answer to that question is always the same: Don’t cut spending elsewhere, don’t get the government out of the way so the private sector can grow, which will in turn increase tax revenues; just raise taxes.
But let’s take a small victory in hearing from a Democrat speak with some fire on basic law and order. The veep should go have a talk with the occupiers up in Baltimore.
so giving the cities and state more law enforcement money is going to create jobs? This is a plan to hire more police officers? And when the money runs out the city is supposed to keep paying the officer and funding his pension?
Yea good plan Joe. The city will take the money and balance the budget for the already delinquent pension payments and no new hires.
Remember that when your city or state calls for higher taxes its always for police, fire, roads and teachers. Yet, somehow, the revenue ends up going to fund a brand new plush office downtown you never heard of before (assistant auxiliary deputy for internal affairs planning and resourcing, e.g.)!
And why are all of these teachers, firefighters, and police officers being laid off? Because the money from the last stimulus ran out, and the local governments couldn’t find room in the budget again.
Sorry Joe, but that’s not how it’s supposed to work. If the city really thought that they needed more boots on the street to prevent crime or teachers to fill our kid’s heads full of mush, they would come up with the money.
So critics of the bill who have actually been raped are free to point out it’s stupid plan?
(Remember when feminists used to protest d-bags who trivialize rape?)
Meanwhile, back in the real world, police don’t stop rapes and robberies as much as they gather evidence after the fact.
I VP Biteme was really concerned about women being raped, he would advocate for concealed carry in high-crime areas.
– go out for a spin and calm down…