Must Be That Common Core Math They're Teaching Our Kids Now

Democrat Math at it's finest!
Do the arithmetic and show your work 

This thing is going around the left-wing social media. I think it must be a low IQ test! Either that or some common core nightmare. Here's the deal; the straight poop if you will.

1. Common sense - 180 billion minus 172 billion equals 8 billion to give away. If you give a billion to each person you could make 8 people billionaires. That's all.

2. Regular Math - 180b-172b=8b
    8b(dollars)/8b(people) = $1 (each)

3. Real World Application -  Suppose you did send everybody in the world a dollar. Unless they gave you their bank account number you'd have to mail the dollar to them. In the US alone that would cost 75 cents last time I mailed a stamp. That leaves everyone with a quarter. In other parts of the world, international mail rates would require much more than a dollar to send the dollar AND think of how many people on how many computers would you need to find addresses for all those people. Admin costs alone would require billions. Sorry folks, Elon can't afford to give you all a billion dollars or for that matter split it up among you all.

4. Economic Reality - If everyone had a billion dollars, there would be instant economic disaster. Who would go to work for anything like what they are being paid now? Instantly there would be no workers. Why go to work if you actually were a billionaire? Truckers would stop trucking. Farmers stop farming. Factories, grocery stores, police departments, defense industries, the military and everything else would grind to a stop. Inflation would be nightmarish because you have billions of dollars chasing virtually no goods or services. A Big Mac would run you millions if not tens of millions of dollars even if you could get someone to serve you. If everyone had a billion dollars, the dollars would be worth nothing.

Time grows short.
The signs are there to see!

How stupid do the leftist propagandists think we are? It's obvious from the traction this is getting in social media from the progressive fan base that if they just are hanging out with their own people and judging the rest of us by that standard, the left clearly thinks we are all stupid based on the average intellect of their own supporters.

Lest anyone think I'm calling them stupid, I'm not. Marxism/socialism/progressivism/Democrat philosophy is a religion of sorts and it's adherents take this kind of thing as an article of faith especially if it comes from their cardinals and bishops in government and the media. For many of us we kind of switch off our brains where articles of faith are concerned. It becomes all about the feelings and far less about the truth. And our leftist acolytes immediately post this sort of thing to Facebook without another thought and then dutifully hate rich people like Elon Musk who is actually doing things that benefit actual people.

I'm glad I got through school while they were still teaching the old math.

Just sayin'
Tom King © 2026