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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: fuzzymath who wrote (3725)10/27/2000 5:28:59 AM
From: Zoltan!  Read Replies (3) of 10042
 
More fuzzymath by AlGore the Junior:

AlGore the Junior - Cheez wiz, not math wiz:

Gore's fuzzy math

Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore gave himself a self-inflicted wound in his "fuzzy math" campaign battle with Republican rival George W. Bush, misstating the size of a trillion, Reuters reports.

Criticizing Mr. Bush's Social Security partial-privatization plan at a rally Wednesday in Tennessee, Mr. Gore said, "He is proposing to privatize a big part of Social Security and he's proposing to take $1 trillion, a million billion dollars out of the Social Security trust fund and give it as a tax incentive to young workers."

A trillion is one thousand billion, not a million billion.

Mr. Gore added: "I know that one and one equals two, but how do you give the same one trillion to two different groups of people. It doesn't add up unless you're using fuzzy math," he said.
washtimes.com
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