Wow! Something you don't see every day, 'liberal' media contradicts a Republican

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Yesterday, as Steve Austria (R - 10th District of Ohio) was explaining his opposition to the huge federal stimulus package backed by President Obama, he told The Dispatch editorial board: "When Roosevelt did this, he put our country into a Great Depression...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."

Austria did go on to say that it was also questionable whether FDR's actions helped or hindered the nation pulling out of the Depression.

Roosevelt took office in March 1933. Many historians date the Depression from the stock market crash later dubbed Black Tuesday, which happened in 1929, the first year of President Herbert Hoover's term. Bank panics and runs on banks started in 1930 and 1930, unemployment hit 24% by 1932, the GNP fell around 9% in both 1930 and 1931 and 13% in 1932, farm prices dropped by more than half from 1929 to 1932, etc.

http://blog.dispatch.com/dailybriefing/2009/02/austria_backs_off_saying_fdr_c_1.shtml

[Uzybone]

1. That lie was too big for them not to corrrect

the FDR caused the great depression lie is so ridiculous, it would be like saying Hitler was fighting a defensive war.

[Avalux]

2. It is infuriating Austria would blantantly LIE about historical facts.

He and his buddies really have no shame whatsoever. They know that more often than not, the media won't call them on it. They also count on a segment of the population not knowing any better and believing it.