@Jack V Savage Defend your boys here. This is a Washington Post fact check that criticzed Bernie Sanders for being misleading based on what are (to me) two hilariously nonsensical grounds:
Sanders on concentration of wealth
“Three people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of America”
— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
This snappy talking point is based on numbers that add up, but it’s also a question of comparing apples to oranges. Sanders is drawing on a 2017 report from the
left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies
which said that three billionaires — Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos (who owns The Washington Post) and Warren Buffett — had total wealth of $248.5 billion, compared with $245 billion for the bottom 160 million people in the United States. The wealth of the three men has grown even more since then.
But people in the bottom half have essentially no wealth, as debts cancel out whatever assets they might have. So the comparison is not especially meaningful.
So he concedes that the numbers are correct but says that it's misleading....because debt....shouldn't count?
2 Sanders fact checks: On extra jobs and Medicare-for-all
“Millions of Americans are forced to work two or three jobs just to survive.”
— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
Bureau of Labor Statistics data
shows that nearly
8 million people hold more than one job. But most of those extra jobs are part time, not full time. And the “millions” of people amount to just 5 percent of Americans with jobs. So that means 95 percent of workers are not working two or three jobs “just to survive,” making this a misleading statement.
So, again, he concedes that Sanders is correct but says it's misleading because....8 million is low for "millions"?.....or because those extra jobs are (duh) part-time jobs?
