That line “if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is” played out big time this week in the news.

Maybe you saw a YouTube video of the CNN gaff regarding TV ads for Michael Bloomberg’s Democratic leadership campaign.

He spent $500 million dollars on tv ads. That in itself is staggering. But then someone tweeted that he could have given $1 million dollars to every American citizen with that money.  

CNN saw the tweet and ran with it.

If you believed their math, then it is really mind blowing that one individual could make such an huge difference to the financial welfare of a country. 

However, they got it all wrong. 

$500 million dollars would only give each American citizen about a buck fifty-six. … It’s safe to say the Bloomberg couldn’t have saved the US economy, he couldn’t have changed the fortunes of every American. 

You have to wonder how CNN could have made that slip. Remember, their whole news piece was based on some guy’s tweet! 

One of the first questions they should have asked was, “Can this guy even count?” They should have at least gotten out a calculator (if they needed one) to do this math. 

They knew nothing about the tweeter, whether he was a university professor or a part time employee at Burger King. Yet, they ran with this story based on his tweet, that was complete garbage. 

As I was still thinking about this, I saw an article that the Canadian Revenue Agency has $1billion dollars that is unclaimed by Canadian citizens. 

So my first thought was the American people would only get $1.56 on the Bloomberg giveaway … that is if he did give it to them. But how about if the CRA gave that $1 billion to every Canadian? 

Well, we would do better than our US brothers and sisters, but it wouldn’t give us much more than a hearty meal each at Burger King. We would only get about $25 dollars each. 

Then I thought, what if I was one of the lucky ones who had unclaimed money with the CRA? Maybe I would be rich. 

… I checked and I don’t have any unclaimed money. To be honest, I knew CRA didn’t have any money for me because there is no way I would forget that the government owed me money! 

That $1 billion dollars is owed to about 5.7 million Canadians. What is blowing my mind is how 5.7 million people in a country don’t know they have money that is owed them by the government. 

… I started by thinking that there was a guy who could make everyone rich – that was too good to be true. 

Then I thought there was a possibility of the Canadian government making us all rich and that was too good to be true.

Finally, I was thinking that the CRA could just give the $1 billion dollars to the 5.7 million people who don’t know the government has their money. 

Well, that’s too good to be true as well.

Here’s the thing: There are some people who think that after this life everyone will get to go to a better place. Well, that’s too good to be true. In fact, there is an eternity but there is only one way to enjoy that eternity: by joining God’s family by placing your faith in Christ Jesus.

That’s Life!

Paul

Question: What have you believed to be true that is really too good to be true? Leave your comments and questions below.