On the president's Salary Donation

Math Is Fun*
*but NFIL (not for intellectually lazy)

Make 3 piles of pancakes:

Pile A:  100 pancakes

Pile B:  Take 1 pancake, cut it into 20 equal pieces and pull out 3 of those tiny pieces. (See Picture)  For a 6” pancake, this would be slightly larger than a saltine cracker. 

Pile C:  Pile up 2899 pancakes.  If they’re 6” regular pancakes, like a frozen pancake,that would be more than 450 POUNDS of pancakes.

EXPLANATION:

Pile A is the amount of money we have spent extra for this president in just 3 months; a combination of the costs of a first lady won’t live with her husband and a president who takes MULTIPLE, extravagant golfing trips.

Pile B, the 3/20 of a single pancake, represents the donation of salary the president just made to the National Park Service.  Of course, he made this after he was paid it, instead of opting to just divert the pay to the NPS.  This will cost the US Government more in the long run as he will claim it on his taxes as a donation.

Pile C, the 2899 pancakes is the amount that the president has cut the budget of the Interior Service, which oversees the NPS.

If you’re still not getting it, let’s take these numbers in miles: 

• 100 miles (528,000 feet) extra in first lady/golf trips;
• 0.15 miles (792 feet) in donation; and
• 2899 miles (across the US from Maine to Los Angeles – 15,306,720 feet) in budget cuts.

One last comparison, in just plain money, if the first lady/golfing cost us just $100, then he donated 15¢ to NPS, and cut Interior by $2,899.

His donation is a slap in the face.