Why Can’t Liberals Do Arithmetic?
Power Line,
by
John Hinderaker
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
3/17/2020 4:54:46 AM
Who can forget the wonderful moment on MSNBC when Brian Williams and a guest from the New York Times Editorial Board assured us that Michael Bloomberg’s $500 million campaign spending worked out to $1 million for each one of the 327 million people in the United States?
That was mind-numbingly stupid, but Bernie Sanders’ press secretary has equaled it, curiously with another 500 million mistake:(Snip for tweet) There are not 500 million Americans, let alone 500 million who go bankrupt each year, let alone 500 million who go bankrupt on account of medical expenses. It is hard to understand where Ms. Gray got her 500 million figure. The actual number
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 3/17/2020 5:44:36 AM (No. 348626)
If liberals/government could actually do math it would be harder to sell their fact free narratives. Can you imagine Bernie getting up with carefully analyzed numbers? People would listen to him and think "WHY would I ever support anything so financially crazy?". It's much easier to promise government free stuff apparently whipped up by Aladdin's genie. Of course that also says something about the math abilities of Bernie Bros and may imply why they don't have their own "stuff" in the first place.
Liz Warren was supposed to be their policy wonk with a plan for all seasons. She got pulled into the Medicare for All vortex. Since she has plans for everything, someone actually asked her what her plan to pay for it was. She soon came back with a plan filled in with fake math. Her campaign went downhill from there.
BO promised that the average family would save $2500 on medical premiums with BOCare. He is still being pummeled about the head with that one.
CBO, another government wonk group, cost estimates for proposed programs are notoriously below actual costs. No one would vote for things at their real costs so CBO provides them political cover with REAL fake numbers. Or is it fake REAL numbers?
The federal government is supposed to create a budget and sometimes they actually do. However, most of the audits done of government spending cannot be completed because the tracking of that spending is in permanent abeyance. We have no good idea of where the money is going. Maybe we should reduce the budget of each department to the actual auditable expenditures? If it can't be audited, we shouldn't be paying for it.
These people don't WANT us to see the math.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PChristopher 3/17/2020 5:44:50 AM (No. 348629)
It's not about math, it's about power.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
BarryNo 3/17/2020 6:14:41 AM (No. 348646)
If I recall, the Liberals were the ones who introduced math problems like the following:
10 birds sit on a branch.
9 fly away.
How do the remaining bird(s) feel?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 3/17/2020 6:25:18 AM (No. 348653)
No 2 has it correct. The Dims have made an art form of speaking with authority and accompanying arm-hand gesturing. When they throw out numbers (“there are 100 million Americans without health care!!!”) the average person assumes the numbers are true. (After all, these politicians are important, they have information the plebes fo not have, and they KNOW what the figures are.)
The media, knowing or unknowing their falsity of the claims, dutifully transcribe their words and off we go.
Until these loony goons are challenged on their facts, their “math” will always be faulty (or fake).
It’s all, and only, about power.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
worried 3/17/2020 7:05:10 AM (No. 348673)
It's simple, John. The dems make up whatever they think they need, whether it's numbers or lies. You can't call them on it; they were mis-quoted, or taken out of context, or the video was tampered with.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 3/17/2020 7:10:50 AM (No. 348678)
Because they were all "studies" or journalism majors in college.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Red Jeep 3/17/2020 7:17:51 AM (No. 348681)
Conservative math = 2+2= 4
Liberal math = 2+2= 22
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 3/17/2020 7:54:48 AM (No. 348694)
Math is hard!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JackBurton 3/17/2020 8:20:26 AM (No. 348717)
Common core.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mifla 3/17/2020 8:20:43 AM (No. 348718)
Because the amount they spend is higher than they can count.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Clinger 3/17/2020 8:36:17 AM (No. 348733)
When there are no consequences of being wrong there is no incentive to be correct. When your position among the ruling elite is secure and you have no experience outside of that bubble you are deprived of the learning process it takes to be correct and the development of the good instincts to know when things are off by a wide margin.
I made a whopping error on a Thermodynamics exam Junior year and the professor made an example of me. He had me stand up and read the note I wrote him next to my errant result. It said something to the effect that I know my answer made no sense, had to be wrong but I spent enough time looking for my mistake and needed to move on to the other problems.
His point was that I'd eventually have found the stupid math error (he did) and demonstrated a firm grasp on the process so I got just a minor deduction. He went on to say that knowing when an answer can't be right is one of the most important lessons to learn.
When you are right about everything no matter how wrong you are it isn't likely that your boo boo detector will function at a high level. The left live in a world, are educated in a world, where following the theology assures you are correct and you need not think for yourself. It should come as no shock that they can't think.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 3/17/2020 8:37:01 AM (No. 348735)
They cannot do it because it reveals truth and realities they do not want to face They prefer the fantasy of their narrative over realities of life.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/17/2020 8:44:50 AM (No. 348744)
some looney left lies are worse than others.
here are those lies I consider the worst of the lot.
Dollar Bill Clinton, during the 1992 presidential campaign, said 'if we have one standard claim form for health insurance for all insurance companies, the savings generated will be great enough to provide universal health care.'
dirty Donna Shalala, at her 1993 HHS confirmation hearing - AIDS is going to kill every one of us.
Cherokee Lizzie, 2020 presidential campaign, 'Two cents! Just two cents imposed on wealthiest Americans will pay for free college, universal child care, extinguish all student loans, and provide medicare for all.'
Crazy Bernie, 2020 - 'underinsured americans are filing bankruptcy because of medical debts.' he seems to be referencing those Americans who purchased Obolacare, bronze plans with the help of government paid 'navigators' and wound up with huge deductibles.
and of course, the Barack Obola big lies about keeping your doctor, keeping your health plan. lies, lies, lies.
(I'm skipping over Old Jo Biden's lies, because I don't consider him to be mentally competent.)
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#8 was close on the math..
Conservatives: 2 + 2 = 4
Liberals: 2 + 2 = Teal, or maybe Mauve...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
planetgeo 3/17/2020 10:00:25 AM (No. 348826)
Sadly (for the rest of us), it's a birth defect...liberals are born without the Math gene. RINOs, by comparison, are born with it, but when they become politicians they go through a Matherectomy so the crazy spending bills they agree to won't bother their consciences. Together, they will (and are) driving us into certain bankruptcy.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 3/17/2020 10:09:48 AM (No. 348836)
The left gave us 'outcome based ' education. In the left's world they don't need to be correct or factual just close enough to dupe the masses. It's all about feelings not correct answers with the left. I believe this is called 'lying'.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Arby 3/17/2020 11:50:01 AM (No. 348957)
Facts and numbers are the enemies of fantasists. They are also the enemies of those who promise the moon to thumbsuckers who want the government to cuddle them and keep them from having to grow up.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 3/17/2020 11:53:08 AM (No. 348961)
Two reasons, intertwined. Innumeracy is a very real thing. And the numbers get in the way of their power dreams, so they just fake it.
And their innumeracy makes them think that the rest of us can't calculate that they are very obviously faking it.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/17/2020 12:29:12 PM (No. 348990)
Liberal Leftist Loons are accustomed to spouting their lies, errors and nonsense, having it parroted faithfully by the media and expecting their low IQ followers to believe it without question. This practice is what knocked Liawatha out of the race and several others. So far, Bernie has been getting away with much of his communist babble because he avoids quoting numbers and just lays out the alluring meat of his insanity. Fortunately, Bernie Bros are the dimmest bulbs in the house. Biden's gaffes, to his benefit, are ignored completely.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 3/17/2020 2:50:20 PM (No. 349097)
Thank You #20 !
I KNEW I'd seen that term posted somewhere on here - just couldn't remember.
You are correct, it's not lack of 'the math gene' it is an inability to grasp the concept of numbers and how they relate to one another.
In addition to the fact that the left, Bernie et al, has pulled so many numbers out of their .......um, backsides that they no longer make any noise when one of them breaks wind !
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Gazela 3/17/2020 3:51:16 PM (No. 349169)
What does math matter when there are false narratives to be flogged?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
MickTurn 3/17/2020 4:03:29 PM (No. 349181)
Political Indoctrination DOES NOT include anything that requires an IQ of over 50. Nuff Said!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
fayebeck 3/17/2020 4:05:41 PM (No. 349189)
Why can't liberals do arithmetic? It's the parents fault.
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