I am an old fart and I have lots of meds that are not always cheap….especially cancer drugs but not to worry Dear Lovable Donny has lowered drug prices by 1500%.
Are you reading this?
Seriously? 1500%
President Donald Trump bragged on Sunday that he had lowered drug prices by up to 1500 percent—an arithmetical absurdity, even by his standards.
Trump floated the impossible figure just days after he fired a top government statistics official over numbers he didn’t like.
Trump told reporters in Allentown, Pennsylvania, that his administration had brought about a “tremendous drop in drug prices.”
“You know, we’ve cut drug prices by 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500 percent,” Trump said. “I don’t mean 50 percent, I mean 14, 1500 percent.”
He added, “We want the same prices Europe gets, we want the same prices other country gets.”
“So we’ll be dropping drug prices,” he said, before throwing out another confusing set of figures. “It’ll start over the next two to three months. By 1200, 1300, and even 1400 percent. And 500 percent.”
Reducing the price of something by more than 100 percent would mean that not only does it become free—the consumer would be getting paid to take the product.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-says-hes-lowered-drug-prices-by-1500-after-firing-stats-boss/
My degrees are not in math or economics but a savings of 100% would mean my meds would be free….so far my wallet does not see the 1500% savings….how about yours?
This absurdity goes unnoticed by his semi-literate supports….what does it take for these mindless dipshits to realize how bad they are being screwed by this self-absorbed idiot?
Just wondering!
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
self-serving asshole idiots all around..probably inbred.
he’s both fun to watch and terrifying at the same time. It’s like watching a fully grown polar bear trying to rollerskate.
I like the analogy…..chuq
thank you, (so do I) and apologies to the Polar Bears out there, no insult intended
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Not only are the loons blind to the truth they are obviously lousy at maths. Maybe it will finally Dawn on them when they next go for drugs.
But they get their stupidity from social media that can convince them that the math adds up (no pun intended)……chuq
I continue to read that Trumpers don’t hold the Donald to a single thing he says – they know its all lies but revere him so much they cling to the shocking belief that it’s all about what he is doing for them…wait until it all crashes down. they will be the first to feel the pain and the worst of it as well
I am convinced that they support this tool for one reason….racism…..hatre4d for brown people……chuq
Ah, the ignorance of the American public should not be underestimated. Nor should its gullibility.
Simply one of the best comments…..chuq
You should see some of the stuff I run into on the solar power and technical forums I hang out on. I see stuff that would make you despair for the future of humanity. I’m talking about people who can’t even do simple addition and subtraction. Can’t do it even *with* a calculator. When I got involved in those forums a few years ago I thought people like that were deliberately trolling us for their own amusement but in private messages from the long time members of the forums I was assured that yes. there really are people that stupid that they con’t understand how simple arithmetic works. And it seems they were right.
AI hasn’t helped things. The general consensus now is that AI is actually making people stupider, more mentally lazy. perhaps. They are less and less inclined to do anything themselves, even simple things like actually reading an article or doing some simple math themselves on a calculator are things they now resort to using an AI for. It’s scary.
I believe it….AI is making people dumber and lazier….I see it here…..chuq
I blame the education system. We don’t teach anyone to do math, we teach them that Math is Hard and you need six sheets of paper and two colored pens to add or subtract. Our beloved interviewers in the streets are asking younger people “do they know what city they’re in?” and the interviewees laugh and laugh “nooooo” they say and laugh some more.
We may very soon have to have a reading session in order to find candidates who can read full sentences and understand them.
I am so damn glad Im old.
That would mean that the item you’re buying would be free, it would also be a cashback gift worth a huge amount of money. The store would have to pay YOU to take the damn thing away.
I rather like that.
I like it as well….but we know the drug industry will never sanction should good deals….LOL chuq
It is this kind of nonsense that continues to dumb-down his already statistically proven low-intelligence voter base.
Best wishes, Pete.
Yep….and they are hurting themselves…..chuq
ARRRGH!!! It’s truly difficult to listen/read about such TOTAL IGNORANCE!
It is sad and the perfect example of ‘can’t fix stupid’. chuq