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Billionaire Donald Trump Has A Big Problem With Basic Math
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 2/4/2016 | John Merline

Posted on 03/05/2016 5:05:44 AM PST by IBD editorial writer

For a person who claims to be an incredible businessman, Donald Trump sometimes seems to have difficulty handling simple addition and subtraction.

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To: Hugin

Trump should have said, “Try this math. That would be less than the 11 Trillion Obama added in 8 years. Besides that, your Independent analysis is wrong. Isn’t this a debate?”


21 posted on 03/05/2016 5:32:06 AM PST by taterjay
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To: jmaroneps37
Those of us who are bad in math don't see numbers.

We can only see a Cruz guy, born in Canada.

It's a sort of a "Trump card."

22 posted on 03/05/2016 5:33:58 AM PST by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: IBD editorial writer

Shameless clickbait. Go to hell, IBD.


23 posted on 03/05/2016 5:34:05 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: IBD editorial writer

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-worse-than-you-think-trumps-business-disaster-2016-03-04


24 posted on 03/05/2016 5:40:19 AM PST by Undecided 2012
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To: dynoman

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3405392/posts

Damn the facts, full speed ahead!


25 posted on 03/05/2016 5:40:40 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: IBD editorial writer

Incredible businessmen do not go bankrupt four times.


26 posted on 03/05/2016 5:41:12 AM PST by wny
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To: IBD editorial writer

Strange complaint in the time where no one in the feral government can count.


27 posted on 03/05/2016 5:42:06 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: wny

what are your business credentials? how many corporations have you owned?

What business risks have you taken?

None would be my guess.


28 posted on 03/05/2016 5:42:48 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

29 posted on 03/05/2016 5:46:29 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: IBD editorial writer

The Grace Commission Report[3] was presented to Congress in January 1984. The report claimed that if its recommendations were followed, $424 billion could be saved in three years, rising to $1.9 trillion per year by the year 2000. It estimated that the national debt, without these reforms, would rise to $13 trillion by the year 2000, while with the reforms they projected it would rise to only $2.5 trillion.[4] Congress ignored the commission’s report. The debt reached $5.8 trillion in the year 2000.[5][6] The national debt reached 13 trillion after the subprime mortgage-collateralized debt obligation crisis in 2008.

The report said that one-third of all income taxes are consumed by waste and inefficiency in the federal government, and another one-third escapes collection owing to the underground economy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grace_Commission


30 posted on 03/05/2016 5:47:03 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: bert

It’s none of your business.....its also irrelevant. And my comment is correct. Incredible businessmen don’t go bankrupt 4 times. I also notice any time, any thread, when I post an unfavorable trump comment, I never get reasoned rebuttal. Just attacks, insults and deflection to another topic. Sort of the same thing your hero does becuase he has nothing other then hyperbole.


31 posted on 03/05/2016 5:48:09 AM PST by wny
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To: jimbo807

If every other week when Trump sends out paychecks to his 22,000 employees and they don’t bounce I’d say his basic math is pretty good.


32 posted on 03/05/2016 5:49:24 AM PST by ironman
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To: Bogie


33 posted on 03/05/2016 5:50:01 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: wny

so, you are just blowing ignorant smoke


34 posted on 03/05/2016 5:50:44 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

Dump Trump. He’s a fraud.

He defends Planned Parenthood and writes big checks to Hillary.

No Thanks. I’ll vote for the real conservative who has the best chance of beating Hillary: Ted Cruz.


35 posted on 03/05/2016 5:52:34 AM PST by proudpapa (Cruz or Lose!)
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To: traderrob6

That’s opinion.


36 posted on 03/05/2016 5:53:59 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: dynoman

Actually it’s expert anaysis based on the facts.


37 posted on 03/05/2016 5:56:49 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: IBD editorial writer
But as Wallace pointed out, “Medicare only spends $78 billion a year on drugs.”

Lessee...

...there are 350,000,000 folks in the USA...

That's $222.85 per person

I wonder how many of those 350,000,000 do NOT pay taxes??

38 posted on 03/05/2016 5:57:49 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Only...


39 posted on 03/05/2016 5:59:11 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Hugin

tax plans http://taxfoundation.org/blog/why-marco-rubio-and-ted-cruz-s-tax-plans-generate-more-growth-donald-trump-s

and yes it’s FR posted, just re-posting as knowledge is necessary to make good decisions

The American Thinker has always been a conservative news source. This is what they have to say The Case for Ted Cruz
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/the_case_for_ted_cruz.html

A guide to what Ted Cruz wants to abolish, bar or change
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/18/a-guide-to-what-ted-cruz-wants-to-abolish-bar-or-change/

Rebuilding the Military https://www.tedcruz.org/american-resolve/

Ted Cruz Releases Powerful Pro-Life Statement
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/02/ted-cruz-releases-powerful-pro-life-video

I’ve not totally made my decision yet so am collecting info to compare.

The stuff on Rubio’s gay/mistresses is in the stack. How do we know who the Heck is telling the truth if we tear down the conservative news sources such as Thomas Sowell?

Beck makes me cringe, but he was once a very respected Conservative source here on FR.

Since when did we get our Info from Salon or Huff Post, Mother Jones a commie mag, very left wing sources? And consider them truth? For that matter CNN to boot.


40 posted on 03/05/2016 6:01:50 AM PST by GailA (any politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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