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Blog Entry 677 of 691 View from the middle or thereabouts.
A political pundit said most of us live life between the 40 yard lines. I'm one of them. Most of the time. Sometimes I'm right of center, sometimes the other way around.

Government math


$2.2 Million.-Cost per word of House version of health care reform bill.
640,000.-Jobs claimed to have been created or saved under stimulus.
$234,000.-Cost to the taxpayer for each job created or saved.
129. -Jobs claimed to have been created at Florida Day care by Stimulus.
129.-Employees at that day care that got raises. Jobs existed all along.
8%-Unemployment promised if we didn't pass simulus.
9.8%-Reported unemployment
17% -Actual unemployment.
2012.-The year actual job growth in private sector likely to begin.
$24 thousand.-Actual cost per taxpayer of Cash for Clunkers/
$1.43 Trillion. National Deficit.
30-Number of House Members being investigated in ethics probe. Most are Democrats.

Just broke my calculator trying to get these numbers to add up. Apparently they don't add up.

Uh-oh.

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ox·y·mo·ron -expression with contradictory words: a phrase in which two words of contradictory meaning are used together for special effect, e.g. "government math". Sort of like "deficit neutral".
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