Steve Austria (R-OH) Doesn’t Know When the Depression Happened

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U.S. Rep. Steve Austria said he supports a scaled-down federal economic-stimulus proposal, but the Beavercreek Republican told The Dispatch editorial board that the huge influx of money into the economy could have a negative effect.

“When (President Franklin) Roosevelt did this, he put our country into a Great Depression,” Austria said. “He tried to borrow and spend, he tried to use the Keynesian approach, and our country ended up in a Great Depression. That’s just history.”

Most historians date the beginning of the Great Depression at or shortly after the stock-market crash of 1929; Roosevelt took office in 1933.

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives...on_happened.php

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Must be that Liberal "Outcome Based" education he received. He obviously graduated before "No Child Left Behind" was implemented, during those "enlightened" Clinton years.

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steven shoulda married a republican, since republicans give him such a hard on.

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That's pretty bad.

Edited February 11, 2009 by Joe Six-Pack

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He only missed it by a few years and a pres

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He only missed it by a few years and a pres

Close enough to graduate High School, I guess. I wonder if he finished college as well?

[Jasman0717 9]

He only missed it by a few years and a pres

Close enough to graduate High School, I guess. I wonder if he finished college as well?

I guess it just proves you don't have to be smart to be a politician

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