A great chart on the bailouts from Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2206356/
To ruin the punchline- in the last 12 months, the government has spent almost as much on the bailouts as it spent in all of 2007. It has committed more than twice the amount of the 2007 budget.
As Senator Dirksen put it (or didn't): "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."
Thanks to Bart (who is a "helluva engineer"), for the link.
To ruin the punchline- in the last 12 months, the government has spent almost as much on the bailouts as it spent in all of 2007. It has committed more than twice the amount of the 2007 budget.
As Senator Dirksen put it (or didn't): "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."
Thanks to Bart (who is a "helluva engineer"), for the link.
