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1. Steve says:

   November 28, 2008 at 2:27 am

   It would have been nice if the “other large governmental projects” added up to the same amount as the 2008 bailout for graphical clarity–though the difference in size helps.

   Regardless, the point is evident.

   Money would only become meaningless if these were new dollars being printed…as it is, some of bailout money is coming from a fund already in existence.

   I can’t help but feel this cycle of debt can do nothing but perpetuate as time moves forth–even if those borrowing will be paying interest back to our [soon-to-be socialist] government…

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2. Jason Langdon says:

   November 28, 2008 at 11:16 am

   Wow, good luck paying that debt off!

   There’s a great comment on the page that calculated that every man, woman and CHILD in the US now has to pay back $10,400. Youch, that’s going to require a few piggy banks to be smashed open 😉

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3. awake says:

   December 4, 2008 at 12:23 pm

   Not every man, woman and child in the US actually works, so if the working population has to pay, my guess is it will be up to 10 times more (something like 100k each).

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4. Mims H. Wright says:

   December 8, 2008 at 4:54 pm

   Am I missing something? Is the bailout actually $4.6 trillion? I thought we were talking about $700 billion. Still a lot of money but this is like 6x that amount. Correct me if I’m wrong. Does this include interest or something?

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5. Daryl James says:

   January 10, 2009 at 1:39 pm

   Amazing. I get the concept, but my question is the same as Mims, $4.6 trillion?

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6. Felix Turner says:

   January 10, 2009 at 1:59 pm

   $4.6 trillion is a sum of all the bailouts (including citibank). CNBC estimates the number at $7.36 trillion. Check the links above for the source of the numbers.

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7. rich says:

   January 17, 2009 at 2:48 pm

   Trying to compare ‘dollars to dollars’ is meaningless – totally meaningless… you must compare based on something like %of GNP or at least knock it down 50% for inflation. It’s like comparing 3.00 gas prices against .50 cent gas prices in 1972. There is no comparison because in 1972 you earned 8,000.00 a year and now you earn 50,000.00 based on inflation. All of these talking heads and newspapers use straight nmbers w/o analysis to scare you and drive you to their media – like an auto accident… take heart, things are f-d up, but it’s Keynesian fiscal policy, nothing more except that the Dems will build a whole new world of social programs that will raise our tax burden and drive more business out of the country.

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8. felix says:

   January 17, 2009 at 11:31 pm

   @rich – the numbers are adjusted for inflation.

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9. midshipman.org says:

   April 2, 2009 at 5:17 pm

   Flickr 3D…

   Es ist schon erstaunlich, was man mit ein wenig Flash heute alles machen kann….

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