WASHINGTON ? Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney favors economic policies that would help some succeed but leave most others behind. Romney countered that Biden and President Barack Obama are living in a "fantasyland" if they think policies their policies are helping the economy.
Biden made the claims in an opinion piece published Friday in The Des Moines Register. The vice president singled out Romney in Iowa, where the first votes will be cast in the GOP caucuses in less than two weeks.
For his part, President Barack Obama largely has refrained from counterattacking Republicans, saying he will wait until there is a nominee. But Obama's re-election campaign has not, and Biden's column is the latest sign the Obama team believes Romney will emerge from the field.
Biden said Romney's economic proposals "would actually double down on the policies that caused the greatest economic calamity since the Great Depression and accelerated a decades-long assault on the middle class."
"Romney also misleadingly suggests that the president and I are creating an `Entitlement Society,' whereby government provides everything for its people without regard to merit, as opposed to what he calls an "Opportunity Society," where everything is merit-based and every man is left to fend for himself," Biden wrote.
Romney, campaigning in New Hampshire, said Biden and Obama don't "understand from fantasyland what it's like in real America."
The former Massachusetts governor said Obama's policies have made it harder for entrepreneurs to start businesses and create jobs.
Biden's message underscored the major theme of Obama's re-election bid, as the president spelled out in a speech earlier this month in Kansas: The middle class is at a make-or-break moment. The president, saddled with high unemployment, has to make the case that his is the better vision for an ongoing economic recovery for all.
Earlier this week, Romney said Obama was deepening the economic crisis and backing policies that would redistribute wealth instead of creating equal opportunity for people to do well. Romney said his policies would turn the U.S. into an "opportunity society" while Obama's vision for an "entitlement society" would make more people dependent on government welfare.
Biden responded in the op-ed: "The only entitlement we believe in is an America where if you work hard, you can get ahead."
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AP White House Correspondent Ben Feller contributed to this report.
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