The Video Ben Quayle Doesn't Want You To See - "A Thousand Mile Journey"

[babylonsister]

Run time: 01:47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WzooeYU2_0   Posted on YouTube: September 24, 2010 By YouTube Member: jonhulburd Views on YouTube: 2569   Posted on DU: September 27, 2010 By DU Member: babylonsister Views on DU: 440

 
What a doofus.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/27/quayle-campaign-video-budget/

Quayle Says Americans ‘Must Understand’ Size Of Federal Budget, But Doesn’t Understand It Himself

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The problem with Quayle’s video is that it appears that even Quayle himself doesn’t “understand the numbers” he describes. The last budget signed into law by President Obama laid out a $3.5 trillion budget for the federal government — nowhere near the $14.5 trillion Quayle claims is being spent. Current US GDP hovers slightly above $14.6 trillion, meaning that, for the government to be spending 44 percent of GDP, it would have to spend $6.4 trillion, almost double what it is actually spending. Perhaps Quayle thinks the US GDP is $32.9 trillion, which is what it would have to be for federal government spending to account for $14.5 trillion in spending a year and 44 percent of GDP.

Whatever Quayle thinks, he likely realized that this video ominously warning about the dangers of government spending was problematic, because he pulled “the ad after about an hour” of being on YouTube.

[Blue Owl]

1. It's because Brock Landers double-checked the math

n/t

[bbgrunt]

2. from the Bobby Jindahl public speaking bureau....yikes.

[The Wielding Truth]

3. Brought to you by the" Republican -just not smart enough-" Party.

[teknomanzer]

4. You don't have to know anything to be a republican legislator...

the lobbyists will write the bills for you.

Why does this guy remind me of Seth Green, but with no sense of humor or brains?