The bailout: Even more than you...

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    The bailout: Even more than you thought.

    http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/12/03/the-bailout-even-more-than-you-thought

    As this surprising graphic shows, the amount of money pledged to bail out the U.S. economy amounts to more than :

    the amount spent on getting a man on the moon, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, the Iraq War, NASA’s all-time budget and The New Deal, combined. (And yes, the numbers are inflation-adjusted.)

    Imagine what the U.S. could have done with that money if it didn’t have to bail out all those banks…
 
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