Sometimes I really wonder about politicians. Well, okay, almost every time I see or think about them I wonder. It really is hard to understand liberals because you honestly have to suspend belief in the entire physical world around you. Take this wonderful math done by North Carolina governor Mike Easley:

$220 million stolen taken "collected" by the lottery in 1 year = about $1 million a day. In a sane, rational world, that's actually only $602,739 a day. And I don't know how in the world you can take just over half of something and call it a whole something. Do you suppose I can do that with my taxes? Gee, Mr. Easley, the calculations showed I owed $5,320 in state taxes, and that's about $10, so I'll pay that.

Before the lottery was passed (under VERY suspicious circumstances), Easley again and again claimed it would bring in $400 million for education (that's a complete and total lie, but that's another story). After 365 days, the lottery has brought in $220 million. Easley and his pal, the director of the lottery (with a salary of well over $100k a year), said the lottery could earn up to $350 million in it's first year. Folks? The first year is already over and they honestly don't know how much it made? And they're making predictions for how much it will bring in in the future "first year?"

So, since the lottery isn't bringing in the amount Easley promised to the general fund (again, to claim it's about education is outright lying), he has proposed a solution -- bring in LESS money! Yes! Easley believes that if they reduce the amount set aside "for education" from 35% to 29% it will produce more money. And to show he has no understanding of anything related to math, this is the same Democrat who believes that lowering taxes reduces income to government when that has never actually happened.

Democrat government math: is there anything is can't do (in their own minds)?

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