Richard Mourdock: US Economic Woes Like Nazi Germany
Source: TPM
CATHERINE THOMPSON JUNE 7, 2014, 5:59 PM EDT
Indiana state Treasurer Richard Mourdock (R), who unsuccessfully campaigned for U.S. Senate in 2012, compared the economic situation in the U.S. to Nazi Germany on Saturday.
"The people of Germany in a free election selected the Nazi party because they made great promises that appealed to them because they were desperate and destitute," Mourdock said during a speech at the Indiana Republican Convention in Fort Wayne, as quoted by the Indianapolis Star. "And why is that? Because Germany was bankrupt."
Mourdock called the comparison his "most important lesson" as he leaves public office at the end of the year, according to the Star. He also referenced the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, which took place the day before his speech.
"The truth is, 70 years later, we are drifting on the tides toward another beachhead and it is the bankruptcy of the United States of America," he said.
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)try to turn himself into a 99%er populist politician. Personally, I wouldn't have bothered to go overseas with my comparison, the US gilded age is an easy comparison.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)We don't have the exhorbitant inflation, reparations burden, etc., etc.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)missing ingredient for the liberation of fascism fuelled by religious zealotry.
IkeRepublican
(406 posts)...whether it's a type of ice cream or dictator in another country, it's always "like Nazi Germany" or "worse than Hitler".
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)PukeBaggers need to give it a rest on the NAZI stuff!
Sheesh.
lastlib
(23,208 posts)There is simply zero equivalence between our current economic status and the economic situation in Germany between those two wars. Any suggestion that there is, and some idjit needs a series of sharp blows to the cranial cavity.
Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)Mourdock compares US economic woes to Nazi Germany
Posted: Jun 07, 2014 4:18 PM CDT
Updated: Jun 07, 2014 5:50 PM CDT
By TOM LoBIANCO
Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An Indiana politician who lost his Republican Senate campaign two years ago amid criticism for his comment about rape is now comparing the handling of the national economy to the events leading up to Germany's 1936 elections under the Nazi regime.
In a farewell speech to Indiana Republicans during the party convention Saturday, term-limited state Treasurer Richard Mourdock cautioned GOP members to be wary of politicians who promise entitlements and spending as debt grows. He said the Nazis made the same promises to Germans before that country's 1936 elections.
Mourdock began by praising World War II veterans - Friday was the 70th anniversary of D-Day - but then said the war started much earlier than that, during Germany's 1936 elections.
"And this is where I put on my state treasurer's hat again for just a moment to give the most important lesson: The people of Germany in a free election selected the Nazi Party because they made great promises, that appealed to them because they were desperate and destitute," Mourdock said.
More:
http://www.nbc4i.com/story/25720068/mourdock-compares-us-economic-woes-to-nazi-germany
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obxhead
(8,434 posts)A runaway military industrial complex given a truckload of blank checks and endless opportunities to create war and military actions.
A runaway banking system with zero checks and balances that shifts ALL of the DEBT onto the people and the PROFIT onto the 1%.
A runaway stock market that is now fueled with trillions in taxpayer dollars and is a completely rigged game for the 1%.
Bickle
(109 posts)Designed to stoke hate
It's completely like Nazi Germany. Of course, as usual, the conservatives are the Pot and the kettle
MFrohike
(1,980 posts)Trot out Hitler at every opportunity and make the widely-believed, but completely fucking stupid on its face, claim that the country that issues dollars can somehow run out of them.
Fred Gilmore
(80 posts)Representing a political party that has a national platform so closely aligned with that of the 1930s German Nazi Party. I say hypocrisy. Today's puke and bagger politicians are screaming for Fascist policies every single day. Bigger and bigger military budgets, government partnership with big business, a separationist agenda, targeting entire races for humiliation and shame, anti abortion, and wars of aggression to steal vital minerals and oil. The entire right wing agenda is eerily comparable to that of Adolf Hitler.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Before Hitler himself became Chancellor, he was a harsh critic of the policies of Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. According to Wikipedia:
So, the lessons here are that (1) austerity policies don't work, and (2) they can even facilitate an extremist takeover.
Do I have that right, Mr. Mourdock?
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)The guy isn't qualified to be dog catcher.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Right?
seabeckind
(1,957 posts)Says it all about Indiana
Check out the comments in the referenced link:
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2014/06/07/richard-mourdock-says-nation-going-way-hitlers-nazis/10165743/
polynomial
(750 posts)The strangest thing; what if he is right, perhaps the economy is riding on that too big to fail derivative market America has no idea when it will fail, or there is one those flash crash points in the stock market that will be unexplainable with the rush to bailout.
However, most of financial mathematics is built around secret stock market trading, secret metadata transactions, secret money in politics, secret Federal Reserve loans to big corporate people, and of course laundered money through tax havens in war profiteering, and the worst of all a mainstream media loaded with Journalist that make up stories rather than tell news. Then the best part the ultimate tax bill sent to the public.
Woes like Nazi Germany, but now without a war just where more than half the impoverished society in America, families will watch their pensions vanish. Then America is loaded with weapons and an angered population.
Now ripe infuriatingly citizens take action and America starts to witness waves of moving massacres across the country simple teen age murders are transformed into unstoppable locus swarms of mix of indignant adults, indigenous and imported.
Sorry about being prescient to show events before they happen, but it has been the Arab Bin Laden Plan for decades, and the Republicans love to marshal society; from my view they are pushing for the street Assault on Reason. What is horrible too many believe in them, creeps like Hannity, and Limbaugh.
Its the only way todays Republicans know how to keep money and power, sad but true, tyranny , torture, murder, war profiteering, public media liars, and money scamming appear to be that basic method they operate from.
marble falls
(57,075 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)...and it still is full of them.