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Breaking: Biden Says US Will Bail Out Progressive Greece, Spain And Maybe All Europe



May 8, 2010 12 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

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The Hill:

Vice President Joseph Biden on Saturday addressed the press with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and pledged the U.S. would support efforts to stem the financial crisis that has befallen Greece and potentially other countries within the European Union.

“We agreed on the importance of a resolute European action to strengthen the European economy and to build confidence in the markets,” Biden said. “And I conveyed the support of the United States of America toward those efforts and was pleased to hear the efforts that were under way on the part of the president.”

The European Union and the International Monetary Fund have pledged $145 billion to bail out the country of Greece, which has recently become overwhelmed with debt. The U.S. is the largest contributor to the IMF.

Zapatero said that ending the financial crisis quickly would go a long way to keep alive the economic recovery that is happening in parts of the EU.

“I’ve told Vice President Biden that economic recovery is under way in Europe and in the euro zone, and that it is key at the present time to overcome the crisis in the markets so as to keep up economic recovery and job creation,” he said.

The prime minister also mentioned that the U.S. has a vested interest in seeing that Spain does not face Greece’s fate. There has been speculation recently that Spain would need as much as $450 billion to keep it from becoming overburden by debt.

“The United States is a very important investor in Spain,” Zapatero said. “It has trust in Spain. It has trust in Spain’s future, in its companies.”

The prime minister said that an increasing number of Spanish companies are working within the U.S.; the renewable energy sector was specifically mentioned, the growth of which is a priority of the Obama administration.

“We are very happy with this growing commercial relationship,” Zapatero said.

The two leaders also discussed the collaborative efforts that the U.S. and Spain have engaged in on the diplomatic front.

“Our soldiers are side by side in Afghanistan. Our aid workers are joined in Haiti,” Biden said. “Our diplomats are collaborating closely from the Balkans to the Middle East. And our government and citizens cooperate in more areas than I can or should enumerate right now.”


  • Richwill

    Let the Arabs bail the jerks out, or let them get the money from the muslims that they so revere. The best thing Europe could do for itself is dissolve the EU and send all the muslims back to where they came from. The Americans had better pay attention to what is taking place in Europe, because this is our fate if we keep doing what we are doing socially and financially.

    • political.fish

      Mertin is an Obama troll.

    • Mertin

      You again, political.fish? Short, inane and inaccurate, again.

      Energy independence means not sending billions of dollars to Saudi Arabia, the home of Islamic imperialism (otherwise known as Wahhabism), every year. That is a homeland security issue and fundamental to getting our economy in order… and if you think the Saudi Royal family are not funding extremism you know nothing about the problem we are facing. The Bushs put family gain before the nation for decades.

      And I’m sorry if you lack the critical faculties to consider than but your bad mannered comments aren’t going to stop debate here.

    • political.fish

      :arrow: Mertin
      Listening to your bullshit hardly qualifies as debate. We can get your crap from many sources. Your arguments are self-defeating upon sound reflection of history and current events.

  • SgtJenz

    Biden needs to go piss up a rope. This country is on the verge of being bankrupt with 17.1% of the population out of work, tent cities springing up everywhere and businesses closing doors likely forever, and the turtledicks in the District of Criminals wants to send the dying Euro’s a bailout? WTF over?

    How are they gonna do that without printing more worthless paper?

  • wwtd

    who let biden in the booze locker again?

  • ignifer

    merton-
    europeans are working to produce rainbow flavored unicorn farts…
    wind and solar ARE NOT capable of taking over even 10% of the energy load,due to tech limits NOT lack of trying.
    if you truly want energy independence them IM SURE you support ALL OF THE ABOVE approaches to energy independence including NUCLEAR and DOMESTIC DRILLING in addition to working to possibly someday depending on wind and solar( which of course are dependent on the vagaries of nature and require BATTERIES which must someday fill a landfill).
    as for the GOP and the Bush family ‘ wanting’ us to remain dependent on oil I believe you’re subscribing to a load of horseshit…unless of course you mean the GOP and the Bush family don’t want us thrust back into the stone age with leftist daydream utopian energy policies which don’t stand the test of REALITY.
    as for European POPULATION… EUROPE ISN’T GROWING THAT MUCH BUT demographically ‘EUROPE’and ” EUROPEANS” ARE DOOMED TO BECOME A MUSLIM CALIPHATE WITHIN THE FIRST HALF OF THIS CENTURY.

    • YERMOM

      every post he’s made today has the stench of troll

    • Xavier

      Mertin, I always read it as Merlin instead, which is more consistent with the world of wizardry that he speaks of.

      But under the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution even idiocy has freedom of speech.

    • Mertin

      If you thought a bit more, and insulted a little less, you just might read a little more accurately. Where did I mention wind and solar? It’s really rather careless and reactionary to assume that someone who does not want the US to continue handing billions to Arabs is a Green fantasist. I would have thought it obvious that being dependent on your enemies isn’t secure.

      How about their work on nuclear fuel reprocessing? How about new nuclear reactor designs? What about investigations into using thorium as nuclear fuel? And the fusion reactor experiments.. and the desert turbine project… and the Severn tide barrier… and the wood burning generators… and sewage digester methane projects… and house insulation initiatives to take down energy use.

      If you think that Europe is happy with the current dependence on Russian gas then you are sorely misinformed.

      Yes Bush is responsible because he did nothing to promote forward planning… he spent his time in the Whitehouse pushing 70s ideas of the US being dependent on Arab oil while his family worked for them. He’s a failed oilman and he thinks like one.

    • YERMOM

      then why would you not be for drilling our own oil?

      a reasonable person would be left with that impression after your Palin bashing on other posts.

  • Moriah

    Biden: “We’re not out of money, we still have checks left!” :lol: