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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 08:56 PM
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Great line KO
The only Great Depression is the one between Congressman Austria's ears.
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! :rofl:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/11/austria-fdr/
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In recent days, conservatives have been trying to block the economic recovery package by arguing that government spending will wreck the American economy. As an example, they point to FDR and the Great Depression. Earlier this month, for instance, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) inaccurately argued that the New Deal “exacerbated the Great Depression.” In a new interview with the Columbus Dispatch, Rep. Steve Austria (R-OH) joined in:

“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.”
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 08:59 PM
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1. World War II was the cause of World War I. Everyone knows that.
How depressing.
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 09:14 PM
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2. "You are either a bold faced liar or the dumbest person ever born"
Edited on Wed Feb-11-09 09:15 PM by emulatorloo
"So which one is it?" -- Judge Marilyn Milian - The People's Court.

Really applies to these Republicans, doesn't it>
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davefromqueens Donating Member (277 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 09:17 PM
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3. HIstory repeats
Hoover, Coolidge, Harding and the conservatives did to America what Reagan and the Bushes later did to America. They fleeced it and nearly destroyed its infrastructure and economy.

FDR fixed the mess conservatives created from 1921-1932.

Obama will fix the mess Bush created from 2001-2008
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