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Charlie Leonard: President's math doesn't add up
The Aspen Times ^ | May 3, 2012 | Charlie Leonard

Posted on 05/03/2012 6:24:22 AM PDT by Aspenhuskerette

It's the nature of our politics that we allow our politicians wide latitude when they make promises about the future. More often than not, this is the triumph of hope over reason, but it's the small probabilities that sustain us in this optimism. It's because we know it's actually possible to solve problems — even if in our hearts we know certain individuals lack the courage or the competence to get it done — that we continue to give them some benefit of our doubt.

But what are we to believe when our politicians start to make promises that are beyond improbable and enter the realm of impossibility?

(Excerpt) Read more at aspentimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: election; entitlements; politicalpromises

1 posted on 05/03/2012 6:24:24 AM PDT by Aspenhuskerette
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To: Aspenhuskerette

Perhaps even an Aspen resident can figure out that they couldn’t run a business by getting it into so much dept that it cannot recover.

Repeat after me, “Math is not a friend of liberals.”

Heck, virtually no real science is.


2 posted on 05/03/2012 6:27:34 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Da Coyote

Sounds like he lost his “Faith” in Barry.


3 posted on 05/03/2012 6:37:53 AM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: Aspenhuskerette
His math never did add up and it never will.
Forward over a very high cliff. . .
Just figuring that out?
4 posted on 05/03/2012 6:53:29 AM PDT by DeaconRed (Cold War Veteran. . . . US Army Security Agency 1964-1968- I have now gone pecan.)
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To: Aspenhuskerette

FORWARD!


5 posted on 05/03/2012 7:55:40 AM PDT by Piranha (If you seek perfection you will end up with Democrats.)
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To: Da Coyote
“Math is not a friend of liberals.”

That might be the reason liberals and journalists get along so well - most 'journalists' can't do math...

6 posted on 05/03/2012 7:55:57 AM PDT by GOPJ ("A Dog In Every Pot" - freeper ETL)
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To: Aspenhuskerette

bkmk


7 posted on 05/03/2012 8:31:11 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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