Marjorie Taylor Greene says because she was born in 1974, she doesn't know history before 1974
During a recent town hall appearance, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene answered questions, written on scraps of paper by audience members, that she picked out of a fish bowl on stage. One question was whether she would “lead the charge in [sic] reapplying the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933?” Seems simple enough. But Greene’s response defied even the lowest expectations: “I was born in 1974 so I’m not familiar with that. But I can have my staff look into it.” Gazpacho police anyone?
The Glass-Steagall legislation of 1933, eroded over the decades and fully neutered under President Bill Clinton in 1999 (when Greene was 24), was arguably our country’s strongest ever banking regulations. Among its provisions, it kept commercial and investment banking separate, and established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to protect bank depositors’ money.
If one of your jobs is to make laws that affect our economy, you should at least have an opinion, even if it is a wholly uninformed one, on Glass-Steagall. Greene’s bizarre defense that she doesn’t know about things that happened before she was born in 1974 isn’t anti-intellectual as much as it is a lie.
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