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Bourgeois Nerd's avatar

I'd like to announce what I call the 10-10-220 Plan: Everyone gives me a ten, a ten, and two twenties. I'll go spend it on stuff I want, like gay porn. Problem solved!

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JustPixelz: IV%'er's avatar

And after 101 years, government spending would be <i>negative!!!</i> (That's right, I got my degree from Glenn Beck University.)

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

pretending to be coherent

/fixed

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

I remember being completely full of myself as a teenager too. Fortunately, I grew out of it, unlike Rand. The irony is that even as a snotty teen I was far smarter than he'll ever be...

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

if it's too big to fit on a bumper sticker, it's too complex to consider

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

I love how 500 billion is chump change, but a couple million destroying PBS is "every penny counts" or the 500 million makes them tear their hair out and scream SOLYNDRA!!1!

it's more of that republican math...

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Monsieur_Grumpe's avatar

I think he actually believes what he’s saying… just like a used car salesman.

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

PT Barnum had it right

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

all I hear is "DERP"

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Joshua Norton's avatar

<i>Rand Paul Has Smartest Economic Idea Since 9-9-9</i>

The Barney Fife of governmentin' work

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BarackMyWorld's avatar

You know whose math skills are worse than Rand Paul's? <a href="http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/right-turn\/wp\/2013\/02\/13\/rand-paul-should-get-real\/" target="_blank">Jennifer Rubin</a>, who had this to say about Rand Paul's speech:

<i>Our debt is more than $16 trillion; the entire 2012 Pentagon budget is $553 billion, less than 19 percent of our federal budget. And foreign aid? That was about a tenth the size of defense spending. You could eliminate them both and hardly make a dent in the debt. So let’s hope his budget is devoid of gimmicks and addresses the real driver of the debt, entitlement spending.</i>

So now $553 billion is chump change because our total debt is $16 trillion, so why bother? Let's cut Social Security (22% of the budget and pays for itself), Medicare and Medicaid (23%), instead because FUCK YOU THAT'S WHY. And when was paying off the debt added to the conservative deficit reduction goal? <b>So now you can't cut spending unless its also big enough to pay off the debt (a mathematically impossible feat in one budget year)?</b> Or are you just changing the goals to protect something you don't want cut and hoping no one notices?

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WishingIWereThere's avatar

Dood can't even tie a Windsor Knot in his tie to form that balanced triangle, why the fuck would I listen to him about our economy?

Plus, when he opens his mouth, all I hear is "I've got mine, fuck you."

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diogenez's avatar

Aqua Buddha math skills

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

or Patty

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