February 4th 2009
Pelosi Math
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ancy Pelosi has her own favorite mathematical formula that, if not quite Einsteinian in its validity, has served her well in her political career. It is: Really big number (of dollars) + really big number (of listeners) = really big number (of votes). Here it is in action:
Yes, you heard it right:
If we don’t have an economic recovery package, 500 million Americans will lose their jobs. I don’t think we can go fast enough.
So by gumbos, get out there and vote for that package today, Senators! We can’t have 250 million as yet unborn Americans losing their jobs!
OK, OK, sure – she meant to say 500,000, not 500 million. But even that rash overstatement meets the Pelosi Math test. In December, 1.1 million Americans were unemployed, so Pelosi is saying that without the precious-little-stimulus plan, that number will grow by nearly 50 percent. She offers no proof of course, and economic trends, while generally downward, don’t point to such an explosion in unemployment.
So she’s hysterical. Again. If there’s one thing we know about the economy, it’s that it responds hysterically to bad news. If Pelosi cared more about the economy and less about cheerleading shriekleading her porkstrosity through Congress, she’d start cooing reassuring thoughts and stop her unsubstantiated hyperbole.
hat-tip: Jim
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February 5th, 2009 at 9:21 am
That’s a lot of new unemployed voters for ACORN to register. No wonder she is so intent on giving the them “stimulus” money.