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Reaganite Republican ^ | February 01, 2011 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on 02/01/2011 6:24:38 AM PST by Reaganite Republican

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1 posted on 02/01/2011 6:24:49 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
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To: Reaganite Republican
I missed #11, which is the biggest part of the budget. I put medicare...

Mike

2 posted on 02/01/2011 6:30:13 AM PST by MichaelP ("Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.)
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To: Reaganite Republican

Got 11. Missed the “TARP money paid back” question.


3 posted on 02/01/2011 6:32:48 AM PST by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: MichaelP

I did exactly the same!


4 posted on 02/01/2011 6:33:12 AM PST by JPG (Work for conservative change like your country depended on it.)
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To: Reaganite Republican

Got all 12 right. Yay me.


5 posted on 02/01/2011 6:33:45 AM PST by Abin Sur
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To: Reaganite Republican

I missed the one about the three branches of government. I put “Congress, the Senate, and the President.” ;o)


6 posted on 02/01/2011 6:34:50 AM PST by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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To: Reaganite Republican

Huh? Interesting test. I missed the one about TRAP. I though I just read that less than half of the money had been paid back, guess I was wrong (otherwise I would have gotten them all correct).


7 posted on 02/01/2011 6:36:03 AM PST by svcw (God doesn't show up in our time, but He shows up on time)
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To: Reaganite Republican

Isn’t political IQ an oxymoron?


8 posted on 02/01/2011 6:36:23 AM PST by surfer (To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
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To: mbynack

Who are you Schumer? ;)


9 posted on 02/01/2011 6:37:05 AM PST by svcw (God doesn't show up in our time, but He shows up on time)
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To: Reaganite Republican

I missed #12, as I have no idea what Google’s search platform is.


10 posted on 02/01/2011 6:39:39 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Reaganite Republican

Woo Hoo Got all 12 correct.


11 posted on 02/01/2011 6:40:31 AM PST by Qwackertoo (New Day In America November 03, 2010)
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To: Reaganite Republican
I did the quiz, and it reported two of my answers wrong. I said that "less than half of the TARP was repaid", and the results page showed that I had answered "more than half" which is the wrong answer.

It also showed that I had checked "national defense" as the biggest expense in the fed budget, which is also wrong.

I paged back through the quiz and checked my clicks, just to verify that I hadn't checked those particular radio buttons, and my answers still showed as I had made them. They just didn't come through to the results page.

My answer on TARP was a guess, but the rest of them were not.

12 posted on 02/01/2011 6:40:39 AM PST by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: Little Ray
"Got 11. Missed the “TARP money paid back” question."

Exactly the same here. I thought it was "less than half."

13 posted on 02/01/2011 6:45:38 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: MichaelP

Me too, and for the same reason


14 posted on 02/01/2011 6:49:20 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
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To: Little Ray

Yep, that’s the second one I botched...


15 posted on 02/01/2011 6:50:18 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
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To: mbynack

ha ha, same as Sen. Schmucky lol


16 posted on 02/01/2011 6:51:56 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
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To: Reaganite Republican

Me three, same reason.


17 posted on 02/01/2011 6:57:27 AM PST by SupplySider
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To: MichaelP

To be fair, medicaid and medicare were about 20% of the budget, while defense was 23%. Social Security was 20% and tarp was 4%.

So SS + Medicare and caid = 43% of our 2009 budget. Defense is getting cut (a foolish move) to counter the exponential growth in SS, medicare and medicaid. I suspect that the question was politically motivated and the answer won’t be updated next year when the correct answer will be SS +. If they insist on keeping the Great Society programs separated, then we should split defense into Army, Navy, Air Force and other.


18 posted on 02/01/2011 6:57:35 AM PST by cizinec
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To: thulldud

That’s very odd - the same thing happened to me, same questions. Otherwise, I would have had 12 for 12, even if a couple of them were only educated guesses.


19 posted on 02/01/2011 7:04:03 AM PST by OldNewYork
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To: Reaganite Republican

Only 11 right. :(


20 posted on 02/01/2011 7:04:13 AM PST by WellyP
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