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Math Is Hard: Bernie's Press Secretary Says 500 Million Americans Go Bankrupt Each Year
« on: March 16, 2020, 07:31:53 pm »
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Math Is Hard: Bernie's Press Secretary Says 500 Million Americans Go Bankrupt Each Year
BY TYLER O'NEIL MARCH 16, 2020
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Math is hard, guys. Remember when our betters in the press — namely MSNBC's Brian Williams and The New York Times's Mara Gay — seemingly endorsed the ridiculous idea that Mike Bloomberg's $500 million in campaign spending could give every American $1 million? Well, now it's a Bernie Sanders staffer's turn to make an embarrassing math mistake — also involving the number 500 million, for some reason...

"It's great that everyone is coming together around this crisis. But people are in crisis everyday. 500 mil Americans go bankrupt from medical debt every year. 68 mil are un or underinsured. We've been in a state of emergency. We need a president who acts like it," tweeted Briahna Joy Gray, press secretary for Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign.
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Sanders has repeatedly declared that "500,000 Americans will go bankrupt this year from medical bills." The Washington Post's fact-checker gave Sanders three Pinocchios for the claim. Bernie's campaign explained he was citing a statistic from a public health journal, but the study he cited arguably "casts too wide a net because it counts anyone who mentioned medical bills or illness among their reasons for declaring bankruptcy, not just those who said it was the main reason or a big piece."

My emphasis.

1. What's 3 orders of magnitude among friends, especially when the actual number is significantly inflated anyway?

2. Will Ms. Briahna Joy Gray Play the Race Card on those calling out her inability to read numbers?
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Re: Math Is Hard: Bernie's Press Secretary Says 500 Million Americans Go Bankrupt Each Year
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2020, 01:31:03 am »
Aw come on guys! Ya'll should know by now that leftist math has never had any basis in reality. Be it 57 states or the world ends in 12 years or that 150,000,000 Americans were killed by guns last year or that 500,000,000 Americans go bankrupt every year. The fact that there are people who actually beliebe that speaks volumes for the state of the nation's education system.

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Re: Math Is Hard: Bernie's Press Secretary Says 500 Million Americans Go Bankrupt Each Year
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2020, 01:39:52 am »
The moral of the story is don't believe anything the comes out of the mouth of a socialist or a liberal mental midget.
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Re: Math Is Hard: Bernie's Press Secretary Says 500 Million Americans Go Bankrupt Each Year
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2020, 01:42:10 am »
Quote from: mortarman on March 17, 2020, 01:31:03 am
Aw come on guys! Ya'll should know by now that leftist math has never had any basis in reality. Be it 57 states or the world ends in 12 years or that 150,000,000 Americans were killed by guns last year or that 500,000,000 Americans go bankrupt every year. The fact that there are people who actually beliebe that speaks volumes for the state of the nation's education system.

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Re: Math Is Hard: Bernie's Press Secretary Says 500 Million Americans Go Bankrupt Each Year
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2020, 05:07:21 am »
Quote from: PeteS in CA on March 16, 2020, 07:31:53 pm

Math Is Hard: Bernie's Press Secretary Says 500 Million Americans Go Bankrupt Each Year
BY TYLER O'NEIL MARCH 16, 2020
My emphasis.

1. What's 3 orders of magnitude among friends, especially when the actual number is significantly inflated anyway?

2. Will Ms. Briahna Joy Gray Play the Race Card on those calling out her inability to read numbers?

PeteS, that is as good as it gets.  Unfortunately the Panickers are making an even bigger mistake with far-reaching, terrible consequences for everyone.
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Re: Math Is Hard: Bernie's Press Secretary Says 500 Million Americans Go Bankrupt Each Year
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2020, 05:18:23 am »
No wonder he and AOC are such allies. 
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