Doing the multiplication is amusing, too. (Reply #29)

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Thu Mar 26, 2015, 01:50 PM

Jim Lane (11,175 posts)

29. Doing the multiplication is amusing, too.

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.

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57 replies	Author	Time	Post
Pic Of The Moment: LOL Obamacare Costs $5 Million Per Enrollee? A Teabagger Does The Math... [View all]	EarlG	Mar 2015	OP
Well, to be fair, he can't tell the difference between division and multiplication either. nt	Xipe Totec	Mar 2015	#1
There is a lot of division these days in the Republican camp	underpants	Mar 2015	#7
LOL! That was my first reaction too! n/t.	bvf	Mar 2015	#21
Where did that nitwit go to school? Talk about embarassing!!!!	MADem	Mar 2015	#2
Home schooled	Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin	Mar 2015	#18
~~Gloom, despair, 'n agony on me...	bvf	Mar 2015	#23
Sure he did -	raven mad	Mar 2015	#52
3 + 4 = 453 Shit! 5 + 1 = 24 Shit! 1 + 9 = 1,000,000,000 DAMN! Somebody help me with this.	BlueJazz	Mar 2015	#3
Is there a smart Republican	Johonny	Mar 2015	#4
Well, when they try to think, it smarts. Does that count? nt	Xipe Totec	Mar 2015	#11
There's Jon Huntsman	Jamaal510	Mar 2015	#55
Their math skills excel even that of their spelling abilities.	kairos12	Mar 2015	#5
and everybody uses their textbooks	father founding	Mar 2015	#6
how stupid are repugs? this is the party of personal responsibility?	samsingh	Mar 2015	#8
Math has a liberal bias	Yavin4	Mar 2015	#9
This explains the Republican budget proposals, too.	tclambert	Mar 2015	#20
Precisely. Just ask Governor Brownback	Yavin4	Mar 2015	#27
Yup - can't trust math or science!	erronis	Mar 2015	#22
It also uses Arabic numerals. Probably some Muslin ones too.	OffWithTheirHeads	Mar 2015	#42
Wonder which numbers are Muslim according to Rethugs? lol	SummerSnow	Mar 2015	#44
Everything's bigger in Texas	central scrutinizer	Mar 2015	#10
And we can't even blame it on a missed decimal point.	Curmudgeoness	Mar 2015	#12
Degree	turbinetree	Mar 2015	#13
You dont have any idea just how accurate this assessment of Pete is - I do!	WatchWhatISay	Mar 2015	#14
This message was self-deleted by its author	WatchWhatISay	Mar 2015	#15
For right wing Republicans, ideology trumps unproven things like basic math and science… nt	MrScorpio	Mar 2015	#16
Everything's big in Texas	Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin	Mar 2015	#17
Locals keep track of the dumb things he says	dem in texas	Mar 2015	#19
Darwin Award-winner.	calimary	Mar 2015	#24
That there is embarrassing!	Lifelong Protester	Mar 2015	#25
Remembering when Clinton said he brought math to DC.	Spitfire of ATJ	Mar 2015	#26
he would never think of asking Big Pharma & Insurance why they're charging such over inflated	wordpix	Mar 2015	#28
Doing the multiplication is amusing, too.	Jim Lane	Mar 2015	#29
He believes in the old adage............	mrmpa	Mar 2015	#30
Well, I guess we now know who Republicans will make Chairman of the House Committee on Mathematics.	tclambert	Mar 2015	#31
What a fucking idiot. nt	TeamPooka	Mar 2015	#32
Where do we find these people????	Initech	Mar 2015	#33
In the Republican Party. n/t	whopis01	Mar 2015	#40
And they just put their ignorance out there for everyone to see, like they're so proud of themselves	bulloney	Mar 2015	#34
Like we need another reminder of the Stupid Party...	czarjak	Mar 2015	#35
Unbelievable stupidity. No surprise which Party it comes from. nt	stillwaiting	Mar 2015	#36
How do they not make sure what they say makes sense before they say it?	marym625	Mar 2015	#37
What was he doing though?	knightmaar	Mar 2015	#38
And this guy knows how to calculate what is best for our national budget?	world wide wally	Mar 2015	#39
I used to think these geniuses had some page or lackey do their calculations	d_legendary1	Mar 2015	#41
Well, he's a Republican so......................	Enthusiast	Mar 2015	#43
So isn't that division?	AllyCat	Mar 2015	#45
This moron "represents" my district in Congress	DFW	Mar 2015	#46
"I'm not a mathematician"	drm604	Mar 2015	#47
The dumbass also doesn't know division from multiplication!	Elmer S. E. Dump	Mar 2015	#48
does not matter.	drray23	Mar 2015	#49
http://successify.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/idiot-test.jpg	blkmusclmachine	Mar 2015	#50
See, whoever said you have to be smart to be a republican lied.	Thinkingabout	Mar 2015	#51
Do The Math	libodem	Mar 2015	#53
He said this out loud? In public? On the floor of the House?	Major Hogwash	Mar 2015	#54
See, this is why they cut education funding	IronLionZion	Mar 2015	#56
For some reason I always confuse Pete Sessions and Jeff Sessions.	yellowcanine	Mar 2015	#57

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