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(8,155 posts) Tue May 14, 2013, 04:50 PM May 2013

IRS Director of Exempt Organizations: "I'm not good at math."

In response to a news anchor's question about whether or not 75 is 1/4 of 300, IRS director of Exempt Organizations stated the following...

"Is that a quarter? That's correct. Thank you. I'm not good at math."

Someone please, for the love of God, send this woman a PR person.

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actually plcdude May 2013 #1

If you cannot find that 75 is 1/4 of 300, then you have a serious problem. Gravitycollapse May 2013 #2

It's ok, dear...neither was Turbo Timmy, the nation's Treasury Sec. dixiegrrrrl May 2013 #3

plcdude

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1. actually

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Tue May 14, 2013, 05:34 PM

May 2013

I know quite a few CPA's who tell you the very same thing. They do not talk off the top of their heads about mathematical calculations they pass them through spreadsheet formulas and calculators losing the facility that many who do not do that for a living to perform calculations in our heads.

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2. If you cannot find that 75 is 1/4 of 300, then you have a serious problem.

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Tue May 14, 2013, 05:35 PM

May 2013

A problem that is compounded if you are, for instance, a director of the IRS.

dixiegrrrrl

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3. It's ok, dear...neither was Turbo Timmy, the nation's Treasury Sec.

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Tue May 14, 2013, 05:47 PM

May 2013

Brains and ability to do things are very over rated in those positions that just call for puppet heads.

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