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<\/p>\nRUSH: Get this, last night on MSNBC, Brian Williams read a tweet: “Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million.” And then somebody from the New York Times editorial board, Mara Gay, chimed in, “It\u2019s an incredible way of putting it. It\u2019s true. It\u2019s disturbing.”<\/p>\n
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Uhhh, no. He spent $500 million on ads. Run the numbers here, Wendy. Let\u2019s run the numbers together. Math is not hard. You\u2019re a smart woman. It\u2019s $500 million. The Population is 300 million, 327 million Americans. You got 327 million Americans and $500 million. If you\u2019re gonna divvy that up equally, how much is every American gonna get? The answer\u2019s $1.53, and yet here they are at MSNBC suggesting that since Bloomberg spent $500 million and the population of America\u2019s 327 million, that every American could have been given $1.5 million by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n
The point they\u2019re trying to make is he wasted all this money and got elected to zilch, zero, nada. He wins American Samoa. I don\u2019t think you can even live on that island, can you? (interruption) You can? Okay. So he wins American Samoa, spending $500 million. How much did the Russians spend trying to meddle? What did Mueller find? Mueller indicted a bunch of Russians for spending $150,000 and then $300,000 on Facebook ads. That\u2019s what Mueller indicted the Russians for doing: $150,000 here, $300,000 there on Facebook ads.<\/p>\n
Bloomberg spends $500 million — a half a billion dollars — and got nothing for it. And yet the Russians were somehow, with one-tenth, one one-hundredth of what Bloomberg spent were able to rig the 2016 election? Anyway, this is striking ignorance on the part of these people at MSNBC. You know, we do quick math calculations here on this program, and I\u2019m not the best at doing quick math in my head which is why I always have somebody else do it while I\u2019m talking about it, \u2019cause I\u2019m invariably wrongdoing these numbers in my head.<\/p>\n
Some people are good with numbers. I\u2019m not. Not in my head. You give me time to write \u2019em down, do \u2019em on a calculator, and I can handle it like anybody. But this is not hard. You have $500 million and you have 327 million people, how in the world do you think that that equals $1.5 million per person? That would cost… If you\u2019re gonna give 327 million people $1.5 million each, you\u2019ve gotta multiply 327 million by $1.5 million, and you\u2019ve got zeros — more zeros there than you can count.<\/p>\n
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So you\u2019ve got these guys on MSNBC talking about how, “Well, Bloomberg, boy, he\u2019s really selfish! He could have given everybody $1.5 million. He could have wiped out poverty!” No. Sorry. See, that\u2019s the thing. People think wiping out poverty, wiping out homelessness wouldn\u2019t be all that expensive because of stupidity like this. You look at how much we spend on Social Security. Can I give you an example?<\/p>\n
I used to do this all the time back when the Democrats made a big deal out of the Republicans routinely wanting to cut people\u2019s Social Security. Do you realize how much it took, how much of a budget increase it took to give every Social Security recipient $20 additional every month? It took billions! It took billions of dollars to give every Social Security recipient an additional 20, 25 measly bucks a month.<\/p>\n
The bottom line is you can\u2019t give people enough money to wipe out poverty. They have to work. People have to be productive. People have to be self-reliant, and they have to be able to produce for themselves, their families or whatever. There isn\u2019t enough money to give it away. We\u2019re too many people if you start running the numbers on this kind of stuff. They said, “Well, he spent $500 million! There are 327 million Americans; that\u2019s $1.5 million!” How do you get there? I mean, that\u2019s a basic computation!<\/p>\n
But somebody in the New York Times editorial board is chiming in, “That\u2019s exactly right! That is an incredible way of putting it. It\u2019s true. It\u2019s disturbing.” No, what\u2019s disturbing is the level of abject ignorance, literal ignorance — I\u2019m not even talking about stupidity here, literal ignorance — that has found its way to the upper echelons of elite America. Elite journalism, elite corporate entities, elite wherever you want to go, the degree of ignorance…<\/p>\n
You know what the ignorance is rooted to? Political bias. These guys literally that the billionaires and billionaires, if they just share it, if they just trickle it down, just give it away, we can wipe out poverty. They have no idea the amount of money we\u2019re talking about, no idea whatsoever how the… If they want to start talking about everybody giving away what they\u2019ve got… You know the old saw — and it\u2019s still pretty much true. It hasn\u2019t changed much. You could confiscate, not tax…<\/p>\n