McCain's "new math" -- regulations have killed billions and billions of jobs

[nichomachus]

That's quite a feat in a country with only 300 million people give or take. Crazier than a shithouse rat. He and Sarah deserved each other.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/john-mccains-ideas-will-save-billions-and-biillions-of-jobs/2011/10/13/gIQAJpW1hL_blog.html

McCain said:

We have a plan and we’ll have almost all of the Republican Senators behind it. And if Obama wants to bring up a piece of his proposed plan, we’ll bring up a piece of ours.

We’d love to see, for example, a vote in the United States Senate on a moratorium on Federal regulations, which are coming out by the thousands, costing businesses billions and billions of jobs. We’d love to see a vote on that. But it will be interesting to see if the Majority Leader will allow it.

[MFrohike]

1. Haha

Maybe he means the jobs they shipped overseas.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

15. BE FAIR! I think maybe he means if he had his way

All 330,000,000 men, women and children in this country would be working 3 jobs.

That's roughly a billion.

:P

[louis-t]

2. Ramping up the crazy.

It's all they have.

[notadmblnd]

3. I'm thinking we should send a bunch of middle schoolers to congress

They seem to have a better grasp on reality and more brains in their heads than republicans do.

[OHdem10]

4. Make these Republicans stete specific regulations---this sounds

like the stale bread of GOP talking points.

NEW REGULATIONS??? I do not know of that many new
regulations. When GWB took over he told Cabinet Heads
and/or Department Heads they were to be Business Friendly.
We know what this means. Is the fact, they are enforcing
old regulations???? Just questioning.

OH YES, the Republicans are on a tear to overturn Dodd-Frank.
This is bank rules and regulations to prevent a repeat
of the horrible collapse we just experienced and to prevent
Taxpayers from having to bail out the Gamblers once again.

The Democrats need to get this one framed properly. Do
not use just the title Dodd-Frank. This means nada nothing
zero to the public. Frame it so the Public understand
the Republicans want to go back: Permitting Wall Street
to turn the place into a Casino and use taxpayers investments
as poker chips.

Is McCain just ranting the usual rant of Republicans who
want no regulation of Business.

[libinnyandia]

14. Insane McCain

I'm so glad he isn't President. "Bomb Bomb Iran" might be a reality. And they may have taken him away and Palin would be in charge.

[benld74]

5. Little Johns' off his meds once more,,,,,

[pokerfan]

6. that guy still around?

[Wait Wut]

7. Arizona...

...we don't need no education.

There has got to be a way outta here.

[librechik]

8. what nonsense--businesses would have to hire people to help them comply with Fed regs

no matter how you slice it--THAT is what they are complaining about. They're just lying about jobs going away because of regulation, trying to scare us away from making new laws to protect our jobs, our air, our water, our children and workers.

[Evasporque]

9. That is saganification - an emotional appeal to large numerical sets.

Key to saganification is the premise:

n( a × 10^9 + a × 10^9 )

Where n = any known

a × 10^9 = any number in the billions

So lets saganify cocktail napkins, where n="cocktail napkins" essentially it reads...

"billions and billions" of cocktail napkins

Simple sanctification is the interpretation of "billions and billions"

Compound saganification would be the interpretation of "Billions upon Billions"

and would be represented by:

n(a × 10^9)^(a × 10^9)

Which is any billions place number set to the power of any billions place number multiplied by n

(I just made this up...)

[Aerows]

10. Billions and billions of jobs?

There isn't quite 7 billion people in this world, and I'm pretty sure that at least a large portion of them are either too young or too old to work. Where did we lose all of these jobs too, Mars? Saturn perhaps? Did they get lost in the Twilight Zone?

[Octafish]

11. Guy had ex-Sen and still-crook Phil Gramm as his economics advisor.

Crazy is right.

[lunasun]

12. deregulation will bring back the jobs...and increasing low wages will

make us appealing to multi ntl corps looking for that exact formula!!!

China is getting a little uppity about wages and pollution lately so here is our big chance!!!

Race downward quickly for a better future my friends

This may work with the zonians who voted him in but others actually can do math and read

Labor Department data shows that under Obama, just two-tenths of 1 percent of layoffs have been due to government regulation.

Billions I tell you!!!

[dkf]

13. Is that an Austin Powers joke?

[fascisthunter]

16. not old enough yet McCain...?

...soon you will be.