The Hill: Biden defends unions against conservative 'social agenda'

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Biden defends unions against conservative ‘social agenda’

By Daniel Strauss - 02/23/11 06:46 PM ET

Unions are not the cause of the country's economic woes, Vice President Biden said Wednesday.

“Public employees are not the problem. The problem is much deeper,” Biden said during a fundraiser in New York for Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.).

Rather, Biden said, unions are part of the reason the country has a middle class.

Biden said the Republicans are trying to use the bad economy that their policies created to push a conservative social agenda.

“We are going to see the economic conditions they created used as an excuse to fundamentally go after the social agenda that the far right has been trying to accomplish for a long time,” Biden said.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/145855-vice-president-defends-unions-against-conservative-social-agenda

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1. Unions busting is not part of the conservatives 'social agenda.' Perhaps Biden misspoke or was

misquoted.