And now it goes to a new level, as a well-informed House Member (not a first-term state assemblyman from Bumfuck & all the lean-tos in the area, but a damn U. S. Representative) takes it to the outright lying level.
[T]he 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.Ignorance is no fucking excuse here. A Congressman should have at least a vague idea of the nation's history, shouldn't he?
Of course there's a post-statement statement involved. A lie on top of another lie, not an apology or even an admittance of stupidity & wilful ignorance.
"I did not mean to imply in any way that President Roosevelt was responsible for putting us into the Depression, but rather was trying to make the point that Roosevelt's attempt to use significant spending to get us out of the Depression did not have the desired effect. Roosevelt did not put us into the Depression, but rather his policies could not pull the nation out of the recession."It's true, he didn't mean to imply anything. He said it outright: "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." But who are you going to believe, a politician or your lying ears? Let's hope the constituents of the lying sack of freshman crap from Beavercreek wise up & keep this fool from becoming a sophomore Congresscritter.
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