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Joe Biden: 'We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt'
2009-07-18
Vice President Joe Biden told people attending an AARP town hall meeting that unless the Democrat-supported health care plan becomes law the nation will go bankrupt and that the only way to avoid that fate is for the government to spend more money.

"And folks look, AARP knows and the people with me here today know, the president knows, and I know, that the status quo is simply not acceptable," Biden said at the event on Thursday in Alexandria, Va. "It's totally unacceptable. And it's completely unsustainable. Even if we wanted to keep it the way we have it now. It can't do it financially."

"We're going to go bankrupt as a nation," Biden said.

"Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'" Biden said. "The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you."

The event, sponsored by the AARP -- which supports the Obama administration's plan -- was attended by mostly AARP members who were bussed in for the meeting.
Bingo was off that evening?
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