4 thoughts on “Is Our Reporters Learning?”

  1. I’ve been noticing the same thing.

    The Stimulus raised the exact same questions:
    http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZWMwMWI4YWUzYmU0MTYzNWE1ODNlNjU1ODk1NDI4OTc=

    1) President-elect Obama claims that spending approximately $800 billion will create 3.675 million new jobs. That comes to $217,000 per job. This doesn’t sound like a very good value, especially with the national average salary around $40,000. Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just mail each of these workers a $40,000 check?

    Similarly with healthcare: Why can’t we just shovel out a couple grand to each person that we want insured? It’d be cheaper than this horrible boondoggle.

    The real reason, of course, is that neither option allows for as much increase in the government, and their cronies, consolidation of their power and control of your life.

    So, is the mass media that weak on basic analysis that they can’t question the magnitudes of how much these policies really cost? Or are they being deliberately incurious?

    Kind of like the MJ stuff. I’m certain that Algore/MSNBC didn’t kill the man-child, but they certainly knew how to get the most out of his death.

  2. What a curious coincidence that the one function required (division) is the one too complicated to teach!!! (according to the quote of a ‘teacher’… does that word still mean what I think it means???)

  3. It’s much simpler to divide by one. Entrust me with the burden of handling all this money.

  4. Reporters?

    I think reporters could do math. It is journalists that seem to be numerically challenged.

    They lost so much when they moved ‘up’ to being journalists.

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