UPDATE: I got a call from a loyal ‘Grok reader saying that my math was wrong (" I’m willing to pay $500 extra") saying that it should have been $5,500. My caller was right, but when I pointed out that those words were Obama’s, there was a stunned silence for a couple of moments.
Yes, ObamaMath, not GrokMath.
Update II: Apparently, a number of people have caught it, as The Corner has a post on it as well ("With math skills like this, no wonder the federal deficit is $1.3 Trillion"). Perhaps, this Hahvad trained Constitutional lecturer needs to visit Education Secretary Arni Duncan and get him some learnin’?
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"For Patriots willingly gave and continue to give up their lives for their families, neighbors and Country, and never had or have to be Asked. "
The Washington Examiner has this snippet from Obama’s recent trip to Las Vegas to act like the House in taking $$ from the rubes (hey, didn’t he once say that we shouldn’t go to Vegas using tax money??)(emphasis Washington Examiner):
But last week, we had a separate vote on a part of the jobs bill that would put 400,000 teachers, firefighters and police officers back on the job, paid for by asking people who make more than $1 million to pay one-half of 1 percent in additional taxes. For somebody making $1.1 million a year, that’s an extra $500. Five hundred bucks. And with that, we could have saved 400,000 jobs.
Most people making more than $1 million, if you talk to them, they’ll say, I’m willing to pay $500 extra to help the country. They’re patriots. They believe we’re all in this thing together. But all the Republicans in the Senate said no. (emphasis added)
That triggered four thoughts: Ask, Patriots, We could have saved 400,000 jobs, They believe we’re all in this together
"Ask"
Ask: Say something in order to obtain an answer or some information
You have to love politicians when they say that they are "asking" for folks to do something, do more of it, or give something. Especially when the operative word really is demand or require and it is codified into law or regulation. There is no voluntary "asking" going on here. Asking something of someone else means you will get one of three answers: yes, maybe, or no. Two of which, by definition, results in a "do nothing" outcome.
When Obama is saying that he is asking, he has no intention of allowing a voluntary reaction and has already gamed the outcome. In fact, he really wants no answer at all – it is the Progressive way of redefining the language of saying "I’m taking this from you – and you have no voluntary action in this at all. But I’ll make you look bad first (after all, that is the Community Organizer way)". Just think of what happens when your answer is "no" to his asking?
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