Here we go…again!
More exciting news is on hand for the mathematically challenged and for teachers everywhere should Mr. Willard Romney be elected as president of the United States!
No doubt standardized tests will have to be updated and recalculated to accommodate the new math. Here are just a few examples of what our students and teachers will have to look forward to.
“The president’s put it in place as much public debt — almost as much debt held by the public as all prior presidents combined.” When President Obama took office, the national debt stood at $10.626 trillion. Now the national debt is over $16 trillion or a $5.374 trillion increase.
RomneyMath: 5.374 = 10.626
“My — my number-one principal is, there will be no tax cut that adds to the deficit. I want to underline that: no tax cut that adds to the deficit.” A Tax Policy Center analysis of Romney’s proposal for a 20 percent across-the-board tax cut in all federal income tax rates, eliminating the Alternative Minimum Tax, eliminating the estate tax and other tax reductions, would reduce federal revenue by $480 billion in 2015.
RomneyMath: X – 480,000,000,000 = X
In one year, you provided $90 billion in breaks to the green energy world. Now, I like green energy as well, but that’s about 50 years’ worth of what oil and gas receives.” The $90 billion was given out over several years and $23 billion of the $90 billion “went toward “clean coal,” energy-efficiency upgrades, updating the electricity grid and environmental clean-up of nuclear waste. Oil and Gas tax breaks equal about 2.4 billion dollars a year.
RomneyMath: 90-23 = 50 X 2.4 …OR 67 = 120
I think about half of [the green firms Obama invested in have gone out of business.” As of late last year, only “three out of the 26 recipients of 1705 loan guarantees have filed for bankruptcy.
RomneyMath: 3 = 26/2 …OR 3 = 13
No matter who one votes for, I think that facts should matter. If we really care about education then we have to care about facts. Remember your vote counts! Unless of course we change counting too.
