Here’s the problem and it’s a math problem. If you had 500 million dollars and your
altruistic soul wanted to share all of that with the American people, how much
money could you give each American? Easy
you may say there are 327 million people in the good ole USA so that comes to
one dollar and fifty-three cents per American.
But don’t try to tell that to Brian Williams of MSNBC, Mara Gay of The
New York Times or Mekita Rivas a sometime writer for the Washington Post
because they think, you could give everyone in America a million dollars each with
that 500 million. We kind of like the
math of the assorted Talking Heads and The Cognoscenti of the Known World. We wish they would take us shopping or out to
dinner or better still, to a Casino.
They might be out a few K by the end of the evening but they’d think it
was only a buck fifty-three.
But this does answer a different problem for us and it’s a
math problem too. We’ve long wondered
why the media can’t ever get something like a simple figure right. Like the war in Iraq has cost either 700
billion or 800 billion or a trillion or two depending on what outlet you are
reading. Or before Obamacare there were
25 million people without health insurance one day then 30 million the
next. Then a week later there were 35
million people without health insurance.
Then two years after implementing Obamacare, all the Talking Heads and
The Cognoscenti of the Known World were ecstatic because 14 million people had
signed up for health insurance through Obamacare. Something that never did add up. Like what happened to the other11, or 16 or
21 million people without health insurance?
Did they all die while waiting? But
now, we know. There’s no math
requirement in the Talking Head job description nor is it required to become
one of The Cognoscenti of the Known World.
So, when things don’t quite add up in this world, or
subtract properly or well divide evenly, at least now, we all know why.
Dicens simile factum est
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