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The Greeks Invented Mathematics, and Now It’s Bankrupting Them
National Review ^ | 07/02/2015 | Kevin Williamson

Posted on 07/02/2015 7:39:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 07/02/2015 7:39:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Sharpton says Greeks are Homos.


2 posted on 07/02/2015 7:42:27 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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I thought Islam invented mathmatics? /s


3 posted on 07/02/2015 7:42:43 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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These Greeks did not invent mathematics.

Europe will never learn that collectivism does not work. Neither have we. The great correction is coming.


4 posted on 07/02/2015 7:46:05 AM PDT by nonsporting
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The Greeks Invented Mathematics, and Now It’s Bankrupting Them

I'm sure they know how to add and subtract numbers. What's killing them is a lack of self control regarding fiscal matters. Same thing that's killing us.

5 posted on 07/02/2015 7:47:16 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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So they say, but the ancient Greeks invented the time machine and stoled it. Archimedes headed the attack and left a huge wooden screw as a clue. Muzzies totally baffled losing their piece of pi.


6 posted on 07/02/2015 7:47:57 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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I thought the invention or recognition of the number “0” was to India, not Greece.


7 posted on 07/02/2015 7:48:01 AM PDT by Cboldt
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Something For Nothing: The oldest scam since the dawn of mankind.


8 posted on 07/02/2015 7:48:04 AM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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You’re right, but I think Williamson knows that....it’s a catchy pithy headline, which is what he was going for....


9 posted on 07/02/2015 7:49:05 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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Math is not bankrupting the Greeks. Selfish, feel good socialist entitlement programs are bankrupting the Greeks.


10 posted on 07/02/2015 7:51:40 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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They forgot the definition of shame and learned to go down with big government distribution.


11 posted on 07/02/2015 7:51:43 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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RE: The great correction is coming.

I wrote this in another thread about Puerto Rico ( which was mentioned later in the above article )....

A little perspective.

Puerto Rico’s GDP is close to $103 Billion.

Their current debt ( which they can’t pay ) is $72 Billion.

This is just $30 billion less than their GDP. Yet, they are flirting with default.

Now consider the USA, which is supposed to help them.

Our GDP is $17 Trillion. However our debt ( which does not include unfunded future obligations ) is $18 TRILLION !!

That’s MORE than our GDP.

The difference is we can print money and Puerto Rico can’t.

So, what makes people think that what’s happening in Puerto Rico won’t in the near future, happen HERE?


12 posted on 07/02/2015 7:54:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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You’re right, but I think Williamson knows that....it’s a catchy pithy headline, which is what he was going for....

Williamson is the most awesomeist Writer at NRO. He knows how to bait a hook, that's for sure.

13 posted on 07/02/2015 7:59:48 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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Stupid attempt at a funny headline. They have chosen a marxist government and that is driving them into ruin. Mathematics is a science.


14 posted on 07/02/2015 8:14:40 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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I've always held mathematics in suspicion, myself. Do you realize how many of the greatest disasters in history involve mathematics? Would there have been a Titanic without mathematics? A Hindenburg? I thought not!

Don't even start me on physics.

15 posted on 07/02/2015 8:18:23 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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They tried hiding the truth about the Hindenberg, but the real culprit was DOPE!


16 posted on 07/02/2015 8:21:02 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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More like ignoring mathematics causes bankruptcy...


17 posted on 07/02/2015 8:22:26 AM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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Debts either will be paid or they will be defaulted on — there isn’t a third option,

The US thinks that there is a third option, and that is to just pay interest on the debt in perpetuity.

18 posted on 07/02/2015 8:29:34 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
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AFAIK, the Greeks were the only ancient people to value the notion of proofs in mathematics. No other people even thought of that idea. They were light-years ahead of other ancient cultures in mathematics.


19 posted on 07/02/2015 8:30:34 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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The problem is that the Greeks used Goldman Sachs common core math.


20 posted on 07/02/2015 8:40:26 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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