and, morgenthau says y. 21 cents? fdr says well, for he is a lucky number and seven is a lucky number in three times seven is 21, 21 cents. literally this is how he did this. this by the way, the market crash followed a whole decade of real economic growth. this was not just a bubble. it would introduce automobiles, radios. what happened is the federal reserve turned a rally into a run by jacking with the interest rates right beforehand, and no one saw this. they didn't-- they had no experience. we don't have that excuse now. they had no experience with a crisis of this gravity so they jacked around with it until 1939 morgenthau seven years into the new deal is talking to congress and he is saying, seven years later we have accomplished nothing. this is morgenthau before congress and he gave congress an unlucky number. the unlucky number that year with 17. 17 was what? the unemployment rate in 1939. seven years into the depression. it would not go below 10% until 1941 and that was because of world war ii. we celebrate

you knew because morgenthau told us, the democrat who worked for f.d.r. told us, and we tried it again and it still didn't work. that's how we got started. then after that, of course, we introduce some other factors in the economy, which just like f.d.r., we're going to take a bad situation and make it worse. i love these cartoons. now give me one good reason why you're not hiring. we see the president here talking to some guy that owns the china shop. he's got a couple of bulls coming in the door, health care reform, cap and tax, and the war tax. so we've got all these taxes and these bulls are coming in and this guy is a little concerned about hiring these bulls to help his his china shop. here we go, we're starting to get into the first part of last year, we're seeing unemployment going up, we're seeing the solution is government spending, and things have not gotten a whole lot better. i yield to my friend. mr. scalise: if you don't learn from history then you're doomed to repeat it. it seems we're repeating history now. what's frustrating is really st