Santorum's Slippery Math

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methinks he added a 0 to all his numbers. minor slip up. america haterz, YOU KNOW WHAT HE MEANT.

Max Solomon on July 5, 2011 at 4:03 PM

At least the news folks didn't sign off with "Well, we'll just have to disagree on that."

The most shocking thing was hearing a news anchor say "Let's just be clear. That isn't correct."

That's progress!

jnonymous on July 5, 2011 at 4:13 PM

@2 Yes! So many interviewers let people get away with straight up lying, in the name of 'impartiality', it is mildly shocking when one actually calls it out. That's their job.

ckjub on July 5, 2011 at 4:37 PM

Truth is not impartial.

And also rarely found in the Wikiverse.

Will in Seattle on July 5, 2011 at 5:05 PM

@1 - two decimal points.
If we had that many new jobs we'd have to annex Mexico and most, if not all, of Central America.

SoSea Resident on July 5, 2011 at 5:33 PM

@4: Actually, Wikipedia is pretty reliable for obscure topics that nobody cares enough to vandalize.

venomlash on July 5, 2011 at 5:49 PM

Hahahaha he got fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

STJA on July 5, 2011 at 6:01 PM

Yeah, at first I was looking at his numbers and thought something was wrong but I couldn't quite place it. Then I remembered that the USA only has a population a little over 300 million people and a good chunk of those are not of working age. If you added 280 million jobs you would have to recruit all of Mexico and Canada to fill the excess jobs.

@1 a couple 0's and it's not like this is a typo, he's speaking.

Root on July 6, 2011 at 8:49 AM