Joe Biden: Wall St. reform critics 'sound like squealing pigs'
MINNEAPOLIS -- Vice President Joe Biden, who will be a Democratic presence in Florida next week as Republicans gather to nominate their presidential candidate, on Tuesday compared GOP critics of the Obama administration's Wall Street reforms to "squealing pigs."
Appearing before a raucous crowd in downtown Minneapolis, Biden said a Democratic-led Congress had approved a law reining in the Wall Street excesses that contributed to the nation's economic collapse four years ago. The Dodd-Frank law, which toughened financial-industry regulations after the 2008 meltdown, was approved despite strong objections from Republicans, including Romney, Biden said.
"Over the objections -- where they sound like squealing pigs -- over the objections of Romney and all of his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history," Biden said . . .
Biden said a budget plan offered by Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was neither new nor courageous.
"What's bold about gutting Medicare and education to pay for tax cuts" for the rich? Biden asked. "We've seen this movie before, we know how it ends. It ends with the Great Recession of 2008. It ends with catastrophe."
Biden said Romney had flip-flopped on trade sanctions against China by once denouncing them as protectionism but now supporting them. The vice president pointed to Romney's former firm, Bain Capital, to criticize the Republican further on China policy.
"I wish he'd been that tough when companies owned by Bain were outsourcing thousands of jobs to China," he said.
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Vice President Joe Biden talked with members of the South High school football team after their practice in Minneapolis, Tuesday Aug. 21, 2012.
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I'm sorry. 
I don't feel bullied by these cretins any more than I feel bullied by gnats when I go outside to mow the lawn.
I don't know what it is about an office environment that makes people think they can just say the most vile racist and homophobic things.
When I was in my 20s and a little less inhibited, an older salesrep I had never met came in my office and said something very racist to me about the black warehouse guy, like I was ok with it. I jumped up, knocking my chair over, and bellowed "I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW MY WIFE IS AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SIR" This old dude almost wet himself. Started stuttering, sweating, apologizing. I picked my chair off the ground, sat back down, and told him "I'm just fucking with you, but look how ashamed you were just then. Get out." I think if the door had been closed he would have left a hole in the wall behind him.
Sometimes you can have fun with people and make them sweat. 
I would have paid money to see that.
the knocking over of the chair was accidental but it added to the effect.
Although he continued to call on my company, he never came near me again, I was persona non grata with him. He's dead now. I feel a small sense of guilt, as I think I shaved 5 years off his life in those 30 seconds. 
He unapologetically tells the truth. 
