Please don’t spoil the tea bag false stats fun!

One of the truer things you have ever written my RAGWUS feeding troll. 🙂

A RAGWUS feeder can not be taken seriously when they post that they “pay taxes.”
Only a feeder believes taking money from a producer, giving it to a RAGWUS feeding troll, having the troll regurgitate a small amount of the producers cash as taxes becomes a magical path at which the RAGWUS feeder is actually paying taxes. Absurd only beings to define such idiocy. 🙂

well said smd –plus 75% of retirees dough is paid for by the funds they created!

Teabag jibberish

“Pure pandering to conservative *values*.”

Spoiler alert. This is a copy/paste from a poster on the CNSNews blog:

The 86 million This is the number of people who worked full time, the entire year of 2012, in the private sector. I’m not quite sure why the public sector is left out. They pay taxes too. I suppose because since they are paid by the government, they are part of the evil burden that the hallowed private sector has to bear. Of course, there are many in the private sector who also get paid by the government.

Anyhoo, it’s otherwise a terribly misleading statistic. For instance, if you worked full time 51 weeks in 2012, you don’t count. If you count all the people that worked in the private sector regardless of if they were full time the entire year or not, that number comes to 120 million. Totalling all such workers, regardless of their pay status, comes to 250 million.

The biggest of that 130 million difference is from the 92 million so called “unpaid workers”, typically family members. Yes, these people support the 86 million. They contribute to the GDP. They just don’t get paid.

The 148 million This is the number of persons “residing in a household in which one or more people received benefits from the program”. It does not include the 3 million receiving veteran’s benefits, because of the arbitrary reason that they “served their country in the most profound way possible” but does include the 50 million receiving Social Security and the 46 million receiving Medicare, benefits those folks likely earned working in the private sector. But it’s no mystery why one is included and the other is not. Pure pandering to conservative values.

But here’s the big problem with that number. If you collect any of these benefits for even one week, you make the list. Even more misleading, if you just live in the same house as someone that collected that benefit for a week, you count.

Thus, it’s apples and oranges. The 148 million is as bloated as the 86 million is stark. I could as easily say there are 250 million working to support the 5 million households that subsist solely on means-tested government benefits (not Social Security or Medicare). Pretty numbers, aren’t they?

They think a cow is a clean air enviro hazard!