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March 4, 2013
“Damn Near a Third” of the Budget
“Now you’ve got a budget of three and a half trillion dollars in this fiscal year. This will take $85 billion out of it. That’s damn near a third....You can’t take 30, you can’t take 30 percent of operational money out and expect to have the same product. You can’t do it! It’s impossible!” — Radio host and MSNBC anchor Ed Schultz on his February 25 radio show.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 4, 2013 8:56 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Ummm... what budget??
Posted by: leelu at March 4, 2013 9:05 AM
A third here, a third there, and pretty soon you're talking about 2.4 percent.
Posted by: chuck at March 4, 2013 9:09 AM
I may not be a mathematician, but I do know that a Trillion is a thousand Billions. Okay, I had to look it up. But Schultz needs to take a long walk off a short pier, or quit TV. He gets no excuse from me for his idiocy.
"What budget?" Indeed.
Posted by: Casey Klahn at March 4, 2013 9:14 AM
I may not be a mathematician, but I do know that a Trillion is a thousand Billions. Okay, I had to look it up. But Schultz needs to take a long walk off a short pier, or quit TV. He gets no excuse from me for his idiocy.
"What budget?" Indeed.
Posted by: Casey Klahn at March 4, 2013 9:15 AM
Maxine Watters was his math teacher.
Posted by: Uncle Jefe at March 4, 2013 9:22 AM
leelu gets the "comment of the month" award.
My own income just got cut by the same ratio as the sequester's and I don't know how I'll make it.
Posted by: Donald Sensing at March 4, 2013 9:22 AM
Math is hard!
Posted by: Fat Man at March 4, 2013 10:45 AM
As Og put it, you can't reason with someone to whom math is a matter of opinion.
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Posted by: Mark Alger at March 4, 2013 11:43 AM
As Khrushchev admitted, economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes. Schulz hasn't risen to the level of understanding of a dead communist.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 4, 2013 1:12 PM
Send him to... Detroit!
Posted by: SteveS at March 4, 2013 2:39 PM
SteveS, you're killing me!
Posted by: Donald Sensing at March 4, 2013 3:25 PM
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Posted by: Business Car Leasing at March 5, 2013 11:59 AM
To be fair, he said "near".
Posted by: Artie at March 11, 2013 11:19 AM