What's really sad about Bachmann (in addition to the fact that she's batshit crazy and yet some people will believe anything she says) is that she has a degree in Accounting from one of the finer universities in the U.S.: William & Mary. When she says something borderline retarded that relates to finance, I find it increasingly hard to believe that her degree is legitimate.
A second rate Indian newspaper, probably with an office beside an open sewer, reported the ridiculous $200 million/day figure. And then Michele Bachmann, along with various other wingnuts, picked up on the number without employing a fact check...
or basic common sense. That's where this foolishness came from.
I believe that spending is going to have to be addressed, along with tax and trade policy, to get our budget in order. But the more I hear from these Tea Party types like Bachmann, the more obvious it becomes that there is not enough intellectual horsepower on the right (and maybe not the left either) to do anything other than pick an arbitrary % in programs they don't like to cut.
Has anyone noticed that the near trillion (yes, with a "
t") dollars spent in Iraq has never seemed to bother these Tea Party, make-believe "physical" conservatives? I use that term because my local newspaper printed a scathing letter from one of these kooks and that's how he referred to himself: a "physical" conservative.
Probably some guy who lives in a Section 8 trailer and is on SSI, but gets lathered up when he sees a woman paying for her groceries with food stamps. You know the ones I'm talking about! The ones who whine incessantly about "socialism"... and their kids get discounted lunches at the local public school.
Wingnutters: no clue, no common sense... no problem. Ya gotta luv 'em!
ready...gonna be a long next 2....I think there will be a day when this claim...idiotic as it may be, will pale in comparison to some of what will be put out.
