Math

[babylonsister]

[freshwest]

1. GOP debt is always high because they always rob the taxpayers for their pals. Period.

[dimbear]

2. They must mean the growth in GDP, not GDP itself. People would have noticed the other. n/t

[longship]

3. That's not mathematics, that's arithmetic!

The former is what you learn at a high school or a university; the latter is what you learn in grade school.

Uneducated folks always cry when they cannot do arithmetic. They call it mathematics, but they are so ignorant that they don't know the difference. Plus, they never got past grade school arithmetic.

This retired mathematics teacher thinks that it is a bad deal for everybody!

[LeftInTX]

7. I suck at arithmetic, but have a degree in math!

[jeffrey_pdx]

11. We had a tradition in college concerning math majors

I attended CalTech for a few years before economics (and other things) forced me to drop out. There was a tradition regarding the splitting of a bill when a group of students went out to eat. The youngest, non-math major had to figure it out. All us math majors sucked at arithmetic and couldn't be trusted with it.

[TexasTowelie]

12. Well, I learned something about you tonight.

I didn't know your degree was in math--the same here. Fortunately, I was strong in arithmetic (UIL number sense region champ three out of four years) so the raw ability lead me down the pathway to that degree.

BTW, I always was the person who split the bills at restaurants and my friends would ask me to solve arithmetic problems in my head when we went drinking.

[LeftInTX]

13. My little life experience:

If I would have known that I could have taught at a community college in Texas, I would have continued and gotten a Master's Degree in math. However, I had been living in Wisconsin and the higher ed system was very different and a PhD was needed. (I didn't want to get a PhD – LOL)

When I came to Texas, I found it was very different, but by then I was already getting a second degree in nursing. I switched fields because I wanted a career that was flexible and I didn't want to work in business. I worked in the private sector up in Wisconsin and I absolutely hated it!!

It was sooooo cut throat!!

This was way back in 1980.

[Lucky Luciano]

8. Here is a graduate course in "arithmetic!"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0387900403/ref=mw_dp_img?is=l

Serre is a legend.

[sheshe2]

4. People just don't see it.

Do they Babylonsister.

The last sentence.

" Before Obama was required to fix their mess, 90% of the debt belonged to them."

That's what makes me a little crazy here. People rant and rave that he is not addressing every issue immediately. They simply forget what kind of financial disaster that Obama took on day one in office.

He averted a huge financial melt down in this country. Likened to the Great Depression. Does he get credit for any of that. No, he does not!

[TxDemChem]

5. I'm with you

I wouldn't wish such a task on anyone, but he has stepped up to the plate and has been given shit about it since day 1. He (and other Dems) deserve the respect and decency that certain people feel should only be bestowed to Rethugs.

[Cosmocat]

10. He did not even take office and people were putting it on him

republicans simply don't give a shit.

They spent 8 years making every possible excuse for Bush's epic disaster, and the day after BO got elected they washed their hands of it and said "HE OWNS IT NOW!"

Just childish and petulent.

And, the "liberal" media ... Forever driven to enable a false narrative of "they are all the same" to help to provide cover for the republican's merrily just pukes the negative garbage the republican's put forward, therefor justifying it.

People want to think the republican party is in trouble.

It isn't.

This has been going on my entire nearly 50 years now.

[MillennialDem]

6. GOPers ignore facts and science - and math is the grand daddy of them all.

[Sunlei]

9. never forget the meeting Candidate Obama/McCain had w/ Bush team..much screams.Bush ran from room.

Bush ran!! from the meeting and never returned! Bush admin. people were screaming blame at each other. McCain didn't even talk, only Candidate!! Obama was a voice of reason.

Republicans knew what they did and the great ruin of america they caused and what was coming (housing/mortgage crash)

Yet Obama was brave enough to continue on and we're lucky he won

At that time McCain even called for them both to 'suspend' their campaigns...how people forget the republican scam on America.