Stupid or they think we are stupid ?

Hopefully I can stop laughing for long enough to actually type after reading this article

Here's the laughable part

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Their bill, which could come to a vote by next week, proposes to save $21 billion over 10 years in tax breaks to Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and Conoco Phillips.

"We're serious about reducing the deficit," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said a few hours after the bill was introduced by fellow Democrats Robert Menendez, Claire McCaskill and Sherrod Brown.

"It's really a no-brainer," Reid continued. "Let's use these savings from the taxpayer giveaways to drive down the deficit, not drive up oil companies' profits."

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So look, I'm not for oil company subsidies, but how does a $21 billion savings over 10 years show you are serious about the deficit.

My interpretation is that you don't know the difference between million, billion, and trillion and are stupid. Or you are playing political games because you think we don't know the difference, in which case you think we are stupid. I'm not even sure which way this goes.

I'm really beginning to think some of these politicians really don't understand numbers. There is over a trillion dollar budget issue this year alone. Do you even understand what a trillion is ? Let me explain it, start with one million, like this: 1,000,000. See how that has 6 zeros. Ok now, add three more zeros, like this: 1,000,000,000. Now you have a billion. Ok now, add three more zeros, like this: 1,000,000,000,000. That's a trillion.

So lets see, over 10 years you'd save 20 billion. The deficit is around 14.3 trillion:

14,300,000,000,000 - 20,000,000,000 = 14,280,000,000,000

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $4.03 billion per day since September 28, 2007. To let's see that is 20/5 = 4, that is five days of spending. Oh yeah, you are serious all right. Or what about 20/14300 * 100 = 0.13986014%. Well gee, that is serious, you are really making progress there buddy, you are going to shave off .13%. Wow, you know how to get it done.

So fine, pass this, I don't really care. But do you have to sound like such a dumb ass when you talk about it, sheesh. What a piece of crap.