Biden: U.S. got ‘money’s worth’ from stimulus act

Vice President Joe Biden asserted in an interview this morning that taxpayers have "gotten their money's worth" out of the $787 billion stimulus program that Congress passed during the depths of the recession. In an interview broadcast on CBS's "The Early Show," Biden defended the program against accusations by Republicans critics that it hasn't been the job-manufacturing machine the administration promised to the American people. He argued that money invested in both private and public-sector initiatives has saved as many as 2 million jobs, and said, "I don't think they realize it." Biden said the program, now a year old, was designed to be implemented in two stages, saying "we've only been halfway through the act."