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Doin’ the maff

A letter to the editor in our local newspaper:

I’m not running for any office; maybe I should, but this is my plan.

Give every U.S. citizen $1 million each. I think that’s about 3 million people.

If my high school math serves me right that would come to $3 billion.

About 297M people short. So, KNS guys, how did this one actually get in the paper?

13 Responses to “Doin’ the maff”

  1. LibertyNews Says:

    Not to mention that 1e6 * 3e6 is 3 TRILLION. So with the right numbers you are talking about 300 Trillion. That’s a crapload of money to print up.

    It got into the paper because newspapers don’t review their comments, reporters don’t have time nor the math skillz.

    This is also ignoring what such a brilliant plan would do for inflation.

  2. memomachine Says:

    Hmmmm.

    Reading stuff like this makes me want to eat bourbon pancakes.

    With a lot more bourbon and a lot less pancakes.

  3. Manish Says:

    actually 299,997,000 short.

  4. SayUncle Says:

    I meant 3M short of people (i.e., 300M – 3M = 297M)

  5. Manish Says:

    $3 billion will only pay for 3000 people to get $! million each.

  6. BobG Says:

    “So, KNS guys, how did this one actually get in the paper?”

    He must be a Democrat.

  7. emdfl Says:

    The math was probably checked by the comments-page editor, then the section editor and finally the paper editor.

  8. the pawnbroker Says:

    well, his math may be off, but he did say citizens; this illegal immigration thing may be worse than we thought…

  9. Nylarthotep Says:

    With math like that this guy will have the deficit gone and the budget balanced in no time. Probably be the next secretary of the treasury.

  10. Laughingdog Says:

    If my high school math serves me right that would come to $3 billion.

    Maybe they just found it humorous. I know the papers here sometimes just can’t resist letting someone broadcast their stupidity to the entire world. I remember one letter to the editor years back where someone griped about using “Star Wars” to describe something futuristic, since the movie says “a long time ago” at the start.

  11. Manish Says:

    With math like that this guy will have the deficit gone and the budget balanced in no time. Probably be the next secretary of the treasury.

    LOL

  12. Stan Says:

    Someone forgot to carry a two somewhere.

  13. Metulj Says:

    KNS fired the only person who took any mathematics in college.

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