Tag Archives: great depression

Two Easy Steps

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Zach

For full disclosure I’m not an economist, I don’t even play one on TV, but what follows is my best efforts to understand the economic crisis and two easy ways to make it worse.

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Republicans, out of touch?!

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Dana Cronyn

SNL pretty much summed up the feeling of Democrats everywhere with Saturday’s opening skit, featuring SNL alumnus Dan Akroyd. Impeaching Obama? Unfaltering love for Rush Limbaugh? Banning slumber parties? What will they think of next? Just more of the same.

My favorite moment of Conservative insanity came from Friday’s Wall Street Journal opinion page, with a piece from Bradley Schiller that opened:

President Barack Obama has turned fearmongering into an art form.

Hold up. After the last eight years I’ve become very adept at spotting fear mongering and false analogies. Nice try. If you’re feeling riled up, just read another one of these. The metaphor of John Dingell as a “vintage” automobile should be enough to cheer you up.

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Quote of the Day

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Nina

FDR REMEMBERED

When (President Franklin) 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.

– U.S. Representative Steve Austria, R-OH

The Columbus Dispatch responds:

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

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