Hey Rebecca, here is a hundred bucks, go buy some pizzas for the staff.
You have all heard of Scott Walker, Wisconsin's wonderful Republican governor and soon to be Republican presidential candidate; however, you may not have heard of our somewhat dim bulb of a lieutenant governor, Rebecca Kleefisch.
For the most part we don't hear much from the lieutenant governor and I am fairly certain that is on purpose. Every once in a while she does pop up and say something stupid. April 3rd was one of those days. She was in Ripon, Wisconsin, giving a speech where she was promoting Gov. Walker's policies and Gov. Walker himself when she stated that the reason Wisconsin is number 44 in job creation is because,
"We have a lot of job creators out there who were hesitant [to hire while elections were ongoing] ... We need to stop with the political [fighting] and we need government stability.”
Of course neither Gov. Walker nor Lt. Gov. Kleefisch can grasp that when millions of dollars are taken out of the economy at once it will cause the economy to pretty much tank (which it has in Wisconsin). Of course, that particular comment is old hat for the Walker administration.
Lt. Gov. Kleefisch went on to praise Gov. Walker and his wonderful idea to cut taxes in Wisconsin. The tax cut for me is around $86 a year which is enough money to buy guitar strings for me and my son for the year. Lt. Gov. Kleefisch has other ideas of what to do with that tax cut:
“I think the average family understands this is just a down payment on the future. Also, if you saw a $100 bill on the sidewalk, would you walk by it? I’m a mother of two. That would mean 40 Little Caesars pizzas. That makes a tangible difference.”
Now first off, if I find a $100 on a sidewalk the first thing I am going to do is look for the owner of the $100 bill. Then, assuming I cannot find the owner I am going to do some math before I go and buy 40 Little Caesars' pizzas.
Being the parent of a teenage boy I am very familiar with Little Caesars pizza. It is on the way home from football and guitar practice and has been a lifesaver on nights when pressed for time. $5.28 for a hot n' ready pizza really helps out on those evenings (or when I have several teenage boys in the house).
So I have $100, each pizza costs $5, in Wisconsin there is a 5 percent sales tax and in Dane County there is a .5 percent sales tax on top of the state sales tax. So the math is $100/$5.28 = 18.93 pizzas. Now I am fairly certain that Little Caesars is not going to sell me a little over 9/10th of a pizza so we can say that $100 purchases eighteen pizzas, not 40 like the Lt. Governor seems to think.
Maybe this is the problem in Wisconsin (and the nation): The GOP just has really poor math skills.