Vice President Joe Biden had this to say today about whether there's a "depression" in America:

"The unemployed are in real trouble," Biden said. "My grandpa used to say, from Scranton, he’d say, ‘Joe, when the guy in Dunmore - the next town over – when the guy in Dunmore is out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law is out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression. It’s a depression for millions and millions of Americans."

But the last bit is particularly curious since it sounds an awful lot like something President Ronald Reagan said.

"A recession is when your neighbor loses his job," Reagan said during the 1980 presidential campaign. "A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his."
Biden Rips Off Reagan Line? | The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/biden-rips-reagan-line_647902.html)

Lunchpail Joe forgot the last line, "And recovery is when Barack Obama loses his."

Reagan got it from Truman.

But this ain't the first time Joe has plagiarized someone else's work for those of us who remember when he ran in 1988.

Biden's 1988 Campaign Plagiarism Goes Well Beyond What Wiki Reveals | NewsBusters.org (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/08/25/bidens-time-1988-plagiarism-goes-well-beyond-what-wiki-reveals)

He also lifted an article for a law paper with scant attribution.

My guess is he just doesn't see the need for crediting people.