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GOP Rep claims Obamacare costing $5 million per enrollee. Turns out he's off by about $5 million
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Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)underpants
(182,279 posts)bvf
(6,604 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)I think the institutions that issued him diplomas/degrees oughta ask for those sheepskins back!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,111 posts)on Hee Haw reruns.
bvf
(6,604 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)after the repukes cut a lot of the educational budgets in every state and put in their curriculum!
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Johonny
(20,684 posts)or are these the smart Republicans and the dumb Republicans you don't want to meet?
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)and Colin Powell, but besides those 2, the more enlightened ones are few and far between.
kairos12
(12,817 posts)father founding
(619 posts)State education departments should start rethinking their policies about the textbook selection process.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jun/21/how-texas-inflicts-bad-textbooks-on-us/
samsingh
(17,571 posts)idiot can't even do simple math.
fing morons. How can we trust them on anything - and he's wasting the governmental body's time.
Yavin4
(35,357 posts)You cannot trust it.
tclambert
(11,080 posts)They insist the arithmetic works out so cutting taxes for the rich while increasing military spending will balance the budget. But the dreaded liberal conspiracy has succeeded in sabotaging every calculator in existence to make it look like their math doesn't work.
Yavin4
(35,357 posts)His budget deficits are entirely due to the Liberal bias of adding and subtracting.
erronis
(14,955 posts)OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,617 posts)Including the idiots: W, Cruz, this bozo
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)Where the hell did he get his number???? I am curious to see his work.
Oh, it looks like he just pulled it out of his ass.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)He must have failed in his charter school, private school, home school, and if he had gone to a public school he would know that in a public school they were not worried about making a profit off people for Wall Street, Hedge funds, and anyone else that is in for greed.
No wonder the country is in the shape its in, we have staff members and a congressman not knowing how to divide, let alone add, multiply and subtract, and (he wants to eliminate the Department of Education), unless its against the citizens of the country with hate and fear as a tactic and to put everyone in the poor house when it comes to health care, what a hypocrite
He reminds me of O'Reilly 2+2=5 dam it, that's my math.
And just for curiosity did he get his degree from a degree mill, just asking
WatchWhatISay
(3,426 posts)I went to Southwest Texas State University (now renamed Texas State Univ.) in the mid 70's and Pete was there my freshman year. After that, I heard he didn't return the next year because he flunked out.
He was the roommate of a good friend of mine. My friend was a lot of fun - the kind of guy everyone liked, but Pete didn't run with our crowd or any other crowd there. He had one male friend that he ran around with named Joe, and that was the only friend he appeared to have - really, he was kind of anti-social. My friend even tried to get Pete to ask me out, but Pete wasn't interested. I got the impression that he thought he was too good for people at that school.
He was very nice looking, but that appeared to be the only thing he had going for him. hat picture of him above suits his personality - a bit lost and confused.
He went to some other college and somehow, I believe he eventually graduated from a small private college, probably with a lot of help.
His father is William Sessions, former director of the FBI.
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MrScorpio
(73,626 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,111 posts)Especially the dumbasses.
dem in texas
(2,672 posts)There is a blog or newspaper, can't remember which that keeps track of the stupid things Pete Sessions says.
calimary
(80,700 posts)And jeff sessions in the Senate is no better. Another idiot. Just like this ridiculous pathetic dingdong.
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)And those dopes want to cut school funding???
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)**%$#@!@*(!! prices. e.g. a round of my chemo, which costs $3600 for drugs + administration according to NIH, has an "allowed charge" of $23K! Of that, about $21K is for the chemo (not life-saving, no new and not state-of-the art).
But these R a-hats never ask these questions of their puppetmasters b/c they're BOUGHT and PAID for.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)His figures are: 12 million participants at a cost of $5 million each.
What's the total cost? Multiplying those two numbers tells us that the total cost is $60 trillion.
What's notable is that GDP in 2014 -- the size of the entire U.S. economy, including health care for those 12 million, health care for everyone else, and everything (public sector and private sector) that went on that wasn't health care -- was $17.4 trillion, according to the Department of Commerce. So it would have taken more than years' output of the entire economy to fund one year's worth of Obamacare costs, according to the Hon. Pete Sessions.
Even if you give up on Sessions having any functioning neurons, you'd think somebody on his staff would've noticed this.
mrmpa
(4,033 posts)"close enough for government work"
tclambert
(11,080 posts)Maybe he can finally get that bill passed to change Pi to 3.0 even, getting rid of all those sloppy decimal places. Then if he orders a 12 inch pizza, he will know the circumference must be 20,000.
TeamPooka
(24,156 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)whopis01
(3,467 posts)bulloney
(4,113 posts)czarjak
(11,194 posts)But thanks for the unsolicited conformation, again.
stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Dear dog! It's bad enough he doesn't know how to do simple math. Add in he doesn't know the difference between multiplication and division and it's an epic error.
But, it hasn't stopped any of them yet.
Great job Earl!
knightmaar
(748 posts)What operation and series of decimal point shifting did he engage in?
I can't do anything
( 108 x 10 ^ num1 ) ANY OPERATION ( 12 x 10 ^ num2)
And come up with 5 million.
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)That gets into TRILLIONS!
He needs to get Ghomert to check his work before turning it in
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)and that's why they sounded irrational. Turns out their bigger dumb asses than the people who elected (alleged) them.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)math is not his strong suit.
AllyCat
(16,036 posts)Or is this Common Core?
DFW
(54,056 posts)Of course, my district is no longer my old district. It used to be solidly all in Dallas, and we sent the incredibly able Democrat Martin Frost to Congress for 13 terms. The came DeLay's Gerrymandering, and our district suddenly consisted of a tiny sliver of the old district (the part with us in it) and a whole swath of Bible Belt hicks outside town. Welcome, Rep. Pete Sessions, R-TX, who could use a few private sessions of his own in remedial math, it seems. I think he must have dropped out around the second grade if his math is this bad.
drm604
(16,230 posts)That'll probably be the excuse if anyone asks.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)drray23
(7,587 posts)Its effective. Since the media hardly challenges and stigmatize liars, it is politically useful to lie and spread falsehoods.
You can bet that some of his constituents will remember and believe this number. We should see that percolating soon in the twitter and facebook feeds..
Once it is taken over by the uninformed gop voters, they will tout it as gospel and you wont be able to convince them the number was wrong and arose from a basic math error.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)As George W said, you can still be president even with a C average.
libodem
(19,288 posts)What a concept.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Did all of his colleagues give him a standing ovation?
Did they slap him on the back afterwords for going all the way and trying to sound smart?
<---- Representative Pete Sessions, dumb as rock, and proud of it!!!
IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)they don't want us to catch their lies!
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)Wonder why that is??