Trying to Reason With the Hurricane $leazin': #FakeStatistics and Guessing for Dollars

"It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics."--Hilarie Belloc, 'The Silence of the Sea'

Trump is Right 

Again.

Bayou Resistance Man:

"The study did not count actual bodies on the ground, or look at how they died.  It calculated the total number of deaths in the period under discussion, and compared them to death tolls in the same period in previous years, then classified the discrepancy as "hurricane Maria deaths".  It did so without actual, physical evidence that the hurricane or its aftermath had actually caused the deaths in question - it simply assumed that.  This was a purely statistical analysis. ...

You don't suppose there might, just possibly, be a link between a dramatically higher claimed death toll on Puerto Rico, and its demand for billions upon billions of US taxpayer dollars to spend on itself?  I wouldn't put that past the island's notably inefficient and corrupt government.  Based on their track record, I'd even say it's likely.  What's more, the amount of aid "for projects" that the island is requesting is - surprise, surprise! - "only" $16 billion more than its total government debt of $123 billion.  You don't suppose much of that taxpayer money - if we're so unwise as to give it to them - might be used, not for "projects", but to dig the island out of the financial hole it's dug for itself over the past few decades?  Perhaps with the excess billions diverted into the pockets of greedy, corrupt politicians and their cronies?  Say it ain't so!".......

So not only are these manufactured stats being used to bash President Trump, they are a pry-bar into the U.S. Treasury for crooked politicians. That's what Democrats call a "two-fer".

The excellent Rogue Cartoonist Ben Garrison $um$ it up:

Statistics today are often just another way for the #VeryFakeNews to lie to you, to smear the president and take your money. What are the odds of that?

A: 100%