W. Todd Akin: “Sometimes people say this is as bad as the Great Depression. Certainly it's not. It's not as bad as what things were…”

“Sometimes people say this is as bad as the Great Depression. Certainly it's not. It's not as bad as what things were under Jimmy Carter when we had double digit unemployment and double digit inflation. But we can make it that bad if we work at it and do the wrong things. So that's scaling it. Now, what you're talking about is we've got a solution that's being proposed. It's a solution that's proposed by the Pelosi Democrat Congress. We saw the vote on that last week. Not a single Republican voted for it. But they had a proposal, and I think it's great that we do have a problem. We acknowledge there's a problem, and they made a proposal. And that's what you're talking about, Doctor, and you're talking about the mechanics of what they're proposing, and I think we need to take a look at that. And what you're saying, from what I'm hearing you say is, you don't think it's going to work.”